As director of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Dan Brown plays a vital role in guiding the School’s academic growth and developing new initiatives, providing leadership and management of its programs, centers, and research grants, allocating its revenues in a manner that supports its mission, and enhancing its sizable and growing endowment. In addition, he also sits on the Natural Resources Board of Washington State, which oversees the management of state lands. His research interests focus on land-use change as an outcome of social and ecological processes, and its effects on ecosystems and human well-being. His work connects a simulation modeling of land-use-change processes with GIS and remotely sensed data on historical patterns of landscape change and social surveys. Brown is the Corkery Family Environmental and Forest Sciences Director’s Endowed Chair.