Head and shoulders image of Dr. Eldor Paul, assistant professor, Department of Soil Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Eldor A. Paul earned his BSc (1954) and MSc (1956) at the University of Alberta. He completed his PhD in Soil Microbiology (1958) at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Paul served as departmental chair and professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Biology at UC Berkeley, and was a faculty member of Soil Science (1970s] at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Paul was professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry and departmental chair in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Paul has a lifelong interest in teaching and research in both grassland ecology and agroecosystems, ranging from wheat fields in Canada, through corn-belt rotations in the Great Lakes region of the United States, into the afforested systems in California and Colorado. Dr. Paul is currently a senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, and a professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University, Fort Collins (2022).