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Dean
Dean, Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Founding academic leadership position
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences

Profile
Academic role and contribution
The dean leads biological, earth, environmental, climate, genomic, and human-adaptation programs while coordinating field, laboratory, and computational research.

Credentials
Academic preparation
- Terminal degree in a field represented within the division
- Record of scientific teaching, research leadership, and academic administration

Expertise
Areas of focus
- Life, earth, environmental, or planetary science leadership
- Laboratory, field, and research-computing integration
- Curriculum, quality, and faculty development

Research
Questions and projects
- Earth-life systems, environment, genomics, ecology, climate, or adaptation
Program relationships
Teaching and academic leadership

Academic leadership
Environmental Systems & Earth Observation
Combines ecology, climate, earth science, remote sensing, environmental data, and field monitoring.

Academic leadership
Genomics, Epigenetics & Biological Systems
Advanced study in genomic variation, gene regulation, long-read sequencing, bioinformatics, environment, and biological systems.

Academic leadership
Earth, Life & Planetary Systems
Original research across earth history, living systems, climate, planetary processes, and coupled environmental change.
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