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Linda Nagel, PhD

Dean
Utah State University

Linda Nagel, PhD, has over 23 years of experience as a professor of silviculture. She has a long record of directing, teaching, and facilitating professional training courses and workshops, including the National Advanced Silviculture Program for the USDA Forest Service. Nagel co-leads the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network aimed at bringing together practitioners and scientists to co-develop adaptive forest management practices in the face of climate change. This high-impact research and outreach project is translating climate adaptation theory into practice, with 14 research sites across North America, and includes over 100 partners. Nagel has served on the faculty at Michigan Technological University, the University of Minnesota where she also served as Director of Operations of the Cloquet Forestry Center and the Hubachek Wilderness Research Center, and Colorado State University where she was Department Head. She is now Dean of the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Nagel has received awards and recognition for teaching excellence, efforts toward diversity and inclusion in natural resources, outreach and service to forestry professionals, and leadership of the ASCC Network for its contributions and broad impact to forest science and management.

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