- Profile
An influential ecosystem scientist and academic leader, Indy Burke is the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean at the Yale School of the Environment. Burke’s research has focused on carbon and nitrogen cycling in semi-arid rangeland ecosystems and the effects of land management and climate variability on these systems.
Prior to joining Yale in 2016, she was dean of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, one of the leading institutions in the western U.S. for research, teaching, and outreach on natural resource issues. Indy received a BS in biology from Middlebury College and a PhD in botany from the University of Wyoming.
Burke helps advance the goals of the scientific community through her past and current service to such organizations as The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, The Conservation Fund, The Wilderness Society, and the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology. She also led a number of interdisciplinary research teams and/or served on review panels for the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and the National Academy of Sciences.