Professor of Weed Ecology/Agroecology
Land
Resources and Environmental Science Department
Leon
Johnson Hall
Montana
State University
Bozeman,
MT 59717
Phone
(day): (406) 994-5717
Fax:
(406) 994-3933
Email:
bmax@montana.edu
Web pages: http://weedeco.msu.montana.edu
Citizen of USA
Short
Biography:
Dr. Bruce Maxwell is a Professor of Weed Ecology/Agroecology
in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science at Montana State
University in Bozeman, Montana. Bruce received his B.S. degree in Botany in 1977
and his M.S. degree in Agronomy in 1984 from Montana State University. Before
beginning his B.S. Degree he was on the United States Alpine Ski Team in 1973
and 1974. Following completion of his B.S. Degree he and his wife, Anne,
were Peace Corps Volunteers in Micronesia in 1978 and 1979 and traveled for a
year in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. Upon return from traveling, he
began his M.S. degree in Agronomy with an emphasis in Weed Science and a thesis
project on leafy spurge biology and management. He received a Ph.D. in Crop
Science/Forest Science from Oregon State University in 1989. His research in
Oregon was focused on forest shrub population dynamics. Bruce was hired as an
Assistant Professor of Weed Ecology at the University of Minnesota in 1990. His
research in Minnesota was centered on developing improved methods for
quantifying weed interference in corn and the modeling of herbicide resistance
evolution in weeds. In 1992, Bruce returned home to Montana to become Assistant
Professor of Weed Biology and Ecology at Montana State University. The emphasis
of Bruce's research in Montana is application of ecological principles to
agricultural pest management and land use planning. Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of organisms is an
underlying theme of most of his research. Utilizing
precision technologies to increase adoption of ecologically based crop
management one recent emphasis of his research and another is developing methods
for managers to inventory, survey and monitor non-indigenous invasive plant
species. Bruce currently has one post-doctoral research scientist, one research technician, and
three graduate
students working in his lab on various aspects of precision agriculture,
agroecology and ecologically based pest management. Bruce has published over 50
scientific journal articles and chapters in books and has been a member of two
National Research Council Committees on Agriculture.
Education:
Ph.D. 1990 Oregon State University, Crop Science (Weed Ecology)
Major Professor: S.R. Radosevich