Paul Rogers, Ph.D.

Field: Ecology and Ecosystems, Wildland Resources
Areas of Focus: Aspen Ecosystems, Fire Ecology, Forest Fires, Human Impacts on Vegetation

Expertise

• Human impacts on vegetation
• Aspen ecosystems
• Lichen biomonitoring
• Environmental science
• Forest fires
• Historical vegetation change
• Popular science writing
• Translation ecology

Bio

Dr. Paul Rogers holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geography from Utah State University and University of Wisconsin in Madison, respectively. His Ecology doctorate is from USU. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Environment and Society, a USU Ecology Center associate, and the director of the Western Aspen Alliance. He has taught Introduction to Environmental Science, Environmental Problem-Solving, Natural Resource Monitoring, and Planet Earth for honors students as well as more than 30 professional workshops.

Dr. Rogers prime area of study has been human impacts on vegetation in the western United States. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 16 years, where he conducted monitoring activities and published results from the Interior West of the United States.

Dr. Rogers was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia (2014) and was awarded a Fulbright Specialist scholarship to Mendel University, Czech Republic (2017). His ecosystem monitoring research has taken him around the U.S., as well as to Canada, Europe, Africa, and Australia. He is currently working on issues related to disturbance ecology and wildlife impacts and benefits to aspen ecosystems.

He has published more than 50 professional and technical papers and appeared in media print, video, and online content more than 100 times. Rogers is also reaching out to general audiences with numerous magazine, newsprint, extension, and blog writings. Paul recently appeared in the MacGillivray-Freeman IMAX Film "Into America's Wild" (2020), which is an adventure-science movie intended to encourage women, indigenous persons, and youth to pursue outdoor activities and careers in research.