His faculty position is part of the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) and he has affiliate appointments with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Agroecology, and Limnology and Marine Science (LMS). He is a member of the Science Council for the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), and is part of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) - focusing on sustainability issues related to bioenergy production. He previously served on a subcommittee for Governor Doyle's Task Force on Global Warming. His research program is largely interdisciplinary, incorporating field work on cropping systems ecology and ecosystem modeling in a framework that is geared towards understanding the impacts of climate change and land management on ecosystem services. Back to Top