Linda Nagel

Linda Nagel leads the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Network (ASCC) aimed at bringing together forest 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. 

Linda is currently Professor and Dean of the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University, USA. She previously served on the faculty at Michigan Technological University, the University of Minnesota where she was also Director of the Cloquet Forestry Center and the Hubachek Wilderness Research Center, and Colorado State University where she was Department Head. 

She has received awards for teaching excellence, efforts toward diversity and inclusion in natural resources, outreach and service to forestry professionals including the National Advanced Silviculture Program for the United States Forest Service, and leadership of the ASCC Network for its contributions and broad impact to forest science and management.