Diana Wall

The Wall lab congratulates Diana’s election to the National Academy of Sciences, the latest recognition to a long and distinguished career in scientific research. A well-deserved award for a soil ecologist who has made tremendous contribution both to advancing scientific knowledge, and to communicating the importance and value of living soils beyond academia – even […]

Wall lab postdocs Andre Franco and Walter Andriuzzi, with the help of students Abby Jackson and Diana Granados, had a successful day of field work in the short-grass steppe site of our ongoing grassland project. In this project, an NSF-funded collaboration with Osvaldo Sala’s lab at Arizona State University, we seek to find out how variability in

The Wall lab celebrates the recognition of Diana’s terrific soil ecology career by the Ecological Society of America, which announced that she will receive its highest honor, the 2017 Eminent Ecologist Award, at the society’s annual meeting in Portland, OR, August 2017. The award honors a senior ecologist for an outstanding body of ecological work or sustained ecological

Wall lab’s intern Eden Senay presented the results of her study on host suitability for an endoparasitic soil nematode during the poster session of the 2017 Front Range Student Ecology Symposium. Her experiment showed that the so-called root lesion nematode, P. penetrans, infects dominant grass species in the arid shortgrass and moist tallgrass prairies. Eden, a sophomore in high

The Wall lab is once again in Antarctica for the austral summer field season. Professor Diana Wall, postdoc Walter Andriuzzi, and PhD student Ashley Shaw, together with colleagues from Dartmouth College, Virginia Tech and Brigham Young University, are currently in the McMurdo station, East Antarctica, the largest human facility on the continent. More details on

A video by Brigham Young University professor Byron Adams, co-PI of the MCM LTER soils team led by Diana Wall, highlights some of the most exciting research topics pursued by Adams, Wall and colleagues in the remote Antarctic Dry Valley ecosystems. Several Wall lab members appear in the video, whose Antarctic scenes were shot by Dr. Adams during last

The journal Nature published a news feature on Diana Wall and her quest to shed light on soil biodiversity and raise awareness of its importance to human well-being. The article summarizes Diana’s career, from her pivotal work on plant-parasitic nematodes, to her Antarctic research, and her leading role in the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative.

This year, Colorado State University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall joins the likes of Sir David Attenborough, Edward O. Wilson, and other scientific luminaries as an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society (BES). Honorary membership is the highest honor BES can give. The primary criteria for honorary membership is a lifetime’s achievement in the science of ecology or its application. The Awards Ceremony

A meeting chaired by Dr. John Priscu (Montana State University) and co-chaired by CSU professors Dr. Adrian Howkins, environmental historian, and Diana Wall, soil ecologist, brought more than 40 Antarctic scientists to Colorado State University, with the aim of improving the environmental management of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The Wall lab was involved in organizing the NSF workshop,