Joel Brown is a rangeland ecologist at the Jornada Experimental Range. He is currently the Senior Science Advisor for the USDA Southwest Climate Hub. His professional interests include land description and classification systems, carbon sequestration on rangelands, and grazing land ecology. His professional experience includes 5 years as an USDA SCS/NRCS Field and Area Range Conservationist in Kansas, 5 years as California NRCS State Rangeland Specialist, 6 years as CSIRO (Australia) Project Leader and Senior Principal Research Scientist, 5 years as NRCS Global Change Leader, 10 years as the NRCS Leader for Ecological Sites. His formal education includes a B.S. in Agriculture from Fort Hays State University (KS), a M.S. in Grazing Ecology from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Shrubland Ecology from TexasA&M University. He is the 2019 Society for Range Management Frederic Renner Award recipient.
Recent publications
Salley, S.W. and J.R. Brown. 2024. A systematic approach to soil carbon inventory on rangelands. The Rangeland Journal 46, RJ24017: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ24017
Brown, J.R. 2023. How resilient are US rangeland ecosystems? Journal of Soil and Water Conservation March 2023, 78 (2) 104-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2023.00053
O'Hara, Jeffrey K., Julian Reyes, Lynn G. Knight, and Joel Brown. "Why has the adoption of rotational grazing declined in parts of the United States?." Rangelands 45, no. 5 (2023): 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2023.06.003
