Peter Adler
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
Wildland Resources Department

Faculty Researcher of the Year 

Dr. Peter Adler is an ecologist who conducts basic research on patterns of biodiversity and the processes that shape them and applied research on the ecological impacts of climate change. After growing up in Berkeley, CA, he attended Harvard College and then earned his PhD at Colorado State University. He has been a faculty member in the Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR) since 2006. Dr. Adler has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited almost 20,000 times, and he has been designated a Clarivate Highly Cited Scholar (top 0.1% of world’s researchers) in the field of Ecology and Evolution each year since 2017. Adler is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, a Fulbright Fellow, and a winner of the QCNR Researcher and Teacher of the Year awards. Much of his research involves integration of mathematical and statistical models with long-term data sets collected at a variety of spatial scales, from maps of individual plants in sagebrush steppe ecosystems to satellite-derived datasets spanning North America. His best days at work involve designing experiments and analyzing data with his graduate students and post-docs.