Diana Wall

Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability

Professor, Director

https://sustainability.colostate.edu/people/diana-wall/

@DianaWallSoil

Description

Diana is the science chair of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI), a volunteer network of 4000 + members exploring the vulnerability of belowground biodiversity and its regulation of ecosystem services. GSBI works to assure that scientific knowledge on soil biodiversity is acknowledged in the development of global and national environmental policies and for our sustainable future. Diana’s research examines climate change impacts on soil biodiversity, particularly soil invertebrates and how they interact to provide healthy soils, ecosystem services and nutrient cycling. Her work on responses of soil foodwebs to climate change in earth’s lowest diversity soils in Antarctica was recognized with the designation of Wall Valley, Antarctica. Diana was the 2013 Tyler Prize Laureate for Environmental Achievement, honored with the Ulysses Medal, University College Dublin, the 2019 President’s Medal of the British Ecological Society and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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PLENARY - FOSTERING BIODIVERSITY & MANAGING WATER, KEY RESOURCES FOR THRIVING SOILS (English)

Biodiversity and water, key components for thriving soils? What is the imperative to foster those resources in agricultural and viticultural systems?

Gilles Bœuf (Pierre-et-Marie Curie University, Biologist & Teacher)Stuart Orr (WWF, Freshwater leader)Hélène Valade (LVMH Group, Director of Environmental Development)Pauline Vicard (Areni, Think Tank, Executive Director)Diana Wall (Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Professor, Director)