Diana Harrison Wall is the Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, a Distinguished Biology Professor, and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University.
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Diana Wall is an environmental scientist and a soil ecologist and her research has focussed on the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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The Diana Wall Valley was named after her in recognition of her research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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Diana Wall is a globally recognised leader and speaker on life in Antarctica and climate change.
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Diana Wall completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at the University of Kentucky.
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Diana Wall began work as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California-Riverside in 1972 where she began researching the function and biological diversity of soil ecosystems.
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Diana Wall continued to work at UC-Riverside for a further seventeen years before becoming a Professor in the Department of Nematology.
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Diana Wall became a Professor in the Department of Biology at CSU in 2006 and was key in establishing the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at CSU in 2008.
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Diana Wall's work has changed our understanding of soil ecology in the Antarctic by drawing links between soil process and diversity to environmental conditions above the ground.
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Diana Wall has described invertebrate soil communities in the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land and hers were among the first models of habitat suitability for specific invertebrate species in the Dry Valleys.
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Diana Wall has held the position of President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Ecological Society of America, the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers and the Society of Nematologists.
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Diana Wall was the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in 2003.
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Diana Wall was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Diana Wall has received the 2012 Mines Medal from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research President's Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and the Soil Ecology Society Professional Achievement Award.
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Diana Wall was named a Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in 1999 and she was selected as the 2012 Tansley Lecturer of the British Ecological Society.
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Diana Wall won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2013 and was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Diana Wall is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.
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Diana Wall was awarded the University College Dublin's highest honour, the Ulysses Medal, in 2015.
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Diana Wall Valley was named in recognition of Diana Wall for her extensive research on soil biology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, including spending 13 field seasons there at the time of the naming.
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Diana Wall chaired the DIVERSITAS-International Biodiversity Observation and the Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment.
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Diana Wall is a member of the UNESCO International Hydrological Program US National Committee.
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Diana Wall has been a Board Member of the Island Press and the World Resources Institute.
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