B2 Board of Advisors

Travis E. Huxman

Director, Biosphere 2 and B2 Earthscience; Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona

Travis Huxman received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in biology from California State University, San Bernardino in 1996. He earned his doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado before joining The University of Arizona in Tucson in 2001. Huxman is a broadly trained biologist who is interested in the evolution of plant traits and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. He has worked in deserts, grasslands, and forests throughout North America, studying the physiological underpinning of how plants grow and reproduce, how climate variability and change affects plant and ecosystem processes and how ecosystems services relate to the human endeavor. His current research focuses on understanding the role of deserts in global climate. How deserts acquire and process carbon from the atmosphere and use water on the landscape are important feedbacks on global change that affect resource availablity for consumption by society. Some important aspects of this current research include how ecological phenomena such as non-native species invasions affect the relationship between ecosystem carbon balance, water use and climate.

Peter G. Backus

President, P B Trading Company, Inc.

Edward P. Bass

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Fine Line, Inc.

Anthony R. de Souza

Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council

William E. Dietrich

Professor, Earth and Planetary Science,
UC Berkeley

Adrián Fernandez Bremauntz

President, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico

James M. Gentile

President, Research Corporation

Nick Hanauer

Second Avenue Partners

Laura F. Huenneke

Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University

Jan Lesher

Director, Arizona Department of Commerce

Pamela A. Matson

Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Cherry A. Murray

Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jonathan T. Overpeck

Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth,
The University of Arizona

Henry N. Pollack, Chair

Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Peter H. Raven

Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Joaquin Ruiz

Dean, College of Science, The University of Arizona

Eugene G. Sander

Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona

José Sarukhán Kermez

Professor, Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Rick F. Shangraw

Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

Stephen G. Wells

President, Desert Research Institute

C. Larrabbee Winter

Deputy Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Ex-Officio Members

Lisa J. Graumlich

Director, School of Natural Resources, The University of Arizona

Arthur L. Herbst

Joseph B. DeLee Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

Travis E. Huxman

Director, B2 Earthscience; Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona

Pierre Meystre

Director, B2 Institute; Regents' Professor, Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Ramón Pacheco Aguilar

Director General, Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Mexico