Benjamin_Z._Houlton

Benjamin Z. Houlton

Benjamin Z. Houlton

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Benjamin Z. Houlton is an environmental scientist and the Ronald. P. Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[1] Previously he served as the director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis[2]

His research interests include global ecosystem processes,[3][4] climate change solutions,[5] and agricultural sustainability.[6] He was appointed dean in October 2020. His lab created a new benchmarking tool to calculate nitrogen's substantial impact on the global climate system used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[7] A 2018 paper found that 25% of the nitrogen available to plants comes from rock weathering.[8]

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    Houlton, B. Z.; Morford, S. L.; Dahlgren, R. A. (2018). "Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth's surface environment". Science. 360 (6384): 58–62. doi:10.1126/science.aan4399. PMID 29622648. S2CID 4778980. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
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