Jonathan Foley
Director, Institute on the Environment (IonE)
Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
Contact Information
Phone: 612-626-9553
Fax: 612-624-6264
E-mail: jfoley@umn.edu
Graduate Faculty Memberships
Research Interests
- interactions between humans and global environment systems
- land use and agricultural practices and their effects on ecosystems
- interactions among climate, ecosystems and freshwater systems
- applications of modeling and remote sensing techniques to global sustainability issues
Statement
Jon Foley is the Director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota, where he also holds a McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.
Dr. Foley's work focuses on the behavior of complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies. In particular, Foley's research group uses state-of-the-art computer models and satellite measurements to analyze changes in land use, ecosystems, climate and freshwater resources across regional and global scales. He and his students have contributed to our understanding of large-scale ecosystem processes, global patterns of land use, the behavior of the planet's water and carbon cycles, and the interactions between ecosystems and the atmosphere.
Foley joined the University of Minnesota in 2008, after spending 15 years on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. He has won numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation'sFaculty Early Career Development Award, the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, the J.S. McDonnell Foundation's 21st Century Science Award, and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He has also been named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.
Although originally from Maine, Foley considers the Upper Midwest his home. He can often be found enjoying many of region's pleasures (kayaking, bicycling, gardening or exploring the cities),usually with his two young daughters leading the way.
Selected Publications
Foley, J.A., R. DeFries, G.P. Asner, C. Barford, G. Bonan, S.R. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin, M.T. Coe, G.C. Daily, H.K. Gibbs, J.H. Helkowski, T. Holloway, E.A. Howard, C.J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, J.A. Patz, I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, and P.K. Snyder (2005). Global Consequences of Land Use, Science, 309, 570 - 574.
Foley, J.A. Tipping points in the Tundra, Science, 310, 623-624.
Patz, J.A., D Campbell-Lendrum, T. Holloway, and J.A Foley (2005). Impact of regional climate change on human health, Nature, 438, 310-317.
Foley, J.A., C. Monfreda, N. Ramankutty and D. Zaks (2007). Our share of the planetary pie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 0: 0705190104v1.
Foley, J.A., G.P. Asner, M.H. Costa, M.T. Coe, R. DeFries, H.K. Gibbs, E.A. Howard, S. Olson, J. Patz, N. Ramankutty and P. Snyder (2007). Amazonian revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 5(1): 25-32.
Ramankutty, N., A.T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J.A. Foley (2008). Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB1003, doi:10.1029/2007GB002952.
Monfreda, C. N. Ramankutty and J.A. Foley (2008). Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB1022, doi:10.1029/2007/GB002947.
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