Dr. Virginia dale
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Dr. Virginia Dale is an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee and Corporate Fellow Emeritus at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research focuses on environmental decision making, ecosystem management in view of disturbances and climate change, sustainability of agricultural landscapes and energy systems, and stakeholder engagement. She earned a B.A. and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Washington. Her work has resulted in 11 books and more than 270 scientific articles. She has served on national scientific advisory boards for five US agencies (the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Energy, and Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency) and several committees of the National Academies of Science. She was among the international scientists who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment that in 2007 received with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2006, she was the Distinguished Scientist for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist of the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology in 2013 and chair of that society from 2000 to 2002.
Recent Projects
• A project exploring resilience of the SE US wood-pellet biomass supply chain response to the Covid-19 pandemic and how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are affected by this supply is funded by the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme, Task 43: Sustainable Biomass Supply Integration for Bioenergy within the Broader Bioeconomy. The University of the Sunshine Coast (ABN 28 441 859 157), Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia, manages and administers funding on behalf of IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and under an agreement with Three3.
• The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) provided support to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on a project titled “Approach for stakeholder engagement and assessing progress toward sustainable agricultural landscapes.” Virginia Dale conducted research for this project under an agreement between ORNL and Three3.
• The National Science Foundation supports the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture project entitled "EAGER: FEWSTERN: US-China Food-Energy-Water Systems Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network," under the direction of Frank E. Loeffler, Jie Zhuang, William Brown, Gary S. Sayler, and Virginia Dale.
• EngageINFEWS Research Coordination Network (RCN) supported by NSF brings researchers and stakeholders together to discuss and develop best practices for community engagement in Food, Energy, and Water systems (FEWS) science. The project is led by Andrew D. Kliskey, Virginia H. Dale, David L. Griffith, Chelsea L. Schelly, and Anna-Maria Marshall. https://www.uidaho.edu/caa/galleries-centers-and-labs/crc/coordination/engageinfews
Websites:
http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/people/virginia-dale/
https://www.virginiadale.info/
Recent Projects
• A project exploring resilience of the SE US wood-pellet biomass supply chain response to the Covid-19 pandemic and how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are affected by this supply is funded by the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme, Task 43: Sustainable Biomass Supply Integration for Bioenergy within the Broader Bioeconomy. The University of the Sunshine Coast (ABN 28 441 859 157), Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia, manages and administers funding on behalf of IEA Bioenergy Task 43 and under an agreement with Three3.
• The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) provided support to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on a project titled “Approach for stakeholder engagement and assessing progress toward sustainable agricultural landscapes.” Virginia Dale conducted research for this project under an agreement between ORNL and Three3.
• The National Science Foundation supports the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture project entitled "EAGER: FEWSTERN: US-China Food-Energy-Water Systems Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network," under the direction of Frank E. Loeffler, Jie Zhuang, William Brown, Gary S. Sayler, and Virginia Dale.
• EngageINFEWS Research Coordination Network (RCN) supported by NSF brings researchers and stakeholders together to discuss and develop best practices for community engagement in Food, Energy, and Water systems (FEWS) science. The project is led by Andrew D. Kliskey, Virginia H. Dale, David L. Griffith, Chelsea L. Schelly, and Anna-Maria Marshall. https://www.uidaho.edu/caa/galleries-centers-and-labs/crc/coordination/engageinfews
Websites:
http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/people/virginia-dale/
https://www.virginiadale.info/