Rate My Professor Mitchel Mcclaran

Mitchel McClaran is Professor of Range Management in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at The University of Arizona, where he has served since 1986. He earned a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, an M.S. in Range Management, and a B.S. in Conservation of Natural Resources. In addition to his professorship, he holds appointments as Professor in Arid Lands Resources Sciences and Global Change graduate interdisciplinary programs and is a member of the graduate faculty. Since 2004, McClaran has been Director for Research at the Santa Rita Experimental Range, and since 2020, Director of the Arizona Experiment Station in the Division of Agriculture, Life, and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension. Previously, he directed the Experiment Station starting in 2000. His research focuses on rangeland vegetation dynamics and management, particularly in arid and semiarid grasslands, examining effects of grazing, shrub encroachment, fire, climate variability, and invasive species on plant communities, soil carbon, nitrogen cycling, and trace gas fluxes.