Tim Crews

Tim Crews is the Director of Research and Research Ecologist at The Land Institute. Dr. Crews is interested in the ecology of agriculture. Specifically, his research focuses on how prairie ecosystems maintain soil fertility and how these insights can be applied to mixtures of perennial crops to minimize the need for fertilizer inputs. He received highest honors in the major for his B.A. in environmental studies/agroecology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He later earned a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University, where he conducted research on soil phosphorus and nitrogen fixation in un-fertilized, traditional Mexican agroecosystems. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University where he studied long term soil and ecosystem development in Hawaiian rainforest. He then went on to take a faculty position at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, where he founded and developed a highly successful and recognized undergraduate program in agroecology.