Susan W. Beatty, Ph.D., Cornell, 1981 , is Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Professor of Geography.  Her interests are in biogeography, soils and plant ecology. She has worked extensively on the effects of both natural and anthropogenic disturbances in temperate forests, California chaparral and grasslands of North America and China. Her research on species richness in deciduous forests of the northeastern U.S. has been supported by the National Science Foundation and her work on the stability of grazed grasslands has been sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences (PRC) research and the Nature Conservancy (CA). Currently her interests are in integrating fine and coarse-scale vegetation processes to determine potential response to disturbances such as global climate change.

Phone: 303- 492-6343. Beatty personal web page. email: Susan.Beatty@Colorado.EDU