Robert Scheller

Bio

Dr. Scheller is the Associate Dean for Research (ADR) in the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University (NCSU) with expertise in leading and developing strategic research initiatives; assisting faculty with grant submission and management; interfacing with funders, funding agencies and policymakers; creating and maintaining strategic partnerships; increasing multidisciplinary research collaboration; managing, expanding and diversifying sponsored programs; minimizing research compliance risk; communicating to diverse audiences about research successes, opportunities, trends, and processes; and supporting the research missions of the departments, centers, college and the university.

He is also Professor of Landscape Ecology at in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. He grew up in Minnesota and received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Forest Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on how landscapes have changed, how they will change, and why it matters. Anthropogenic change will transform many landscapes in the coming decades, in ways that exceed our imaginations. To understand past and future landscape change, his research group studies human values, actions, and management; land use change and landscape history; forest and ecosystem and landscape ecology; and anthropogenic drivers of change, particularly climate change. These diverse disciplines inform advanced forecasting tools developed by his lab , enabling local and regional decision-makers to assess the potential to manage for landscape change.