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Stephen Ogle is a Full Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and a Senior Scientist and Associate Director at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University. He received his B.S. in Biology from Emory University in 1992, M.S. in Botany from the University of Wyoming in 1995, and Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wyoming in 2000. Ogle joined Colorado State University in 2000 as a Research Associate/Scientist I at NREL, advancing through positions as Research Scientist II (2003-2007) and III (2007-2014), Associate Professor in Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship (2010-2011) and in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (2011-2017), and Full Professor since 2017.

His research focuses on biogeochemical processes governing greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in agricultural, forest, grassland, and wetland ecosystems. Since 2003, Ogle has served as the lead technical compiler for U.S. national greenhouse gas inventory components, including soil carbon and nitrous oxide emissions from croplands and grazing lands, rice methane, agricultural residue burning, and liming emissions. He coordinates the Agriculture and Land Use (ALU) software project for national GHG reporting and was lead author for chapters in the 2006 IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guidelines, the Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change, and the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines. Ogle is a member of the scientific steering group for the International Soil Carbon Network (since 2011) and the North American Carbon Program (2005-2010). Key publications include "Climate and soil characteristics determine where no-till management can store carbon in soils and mitigation greenhouse gas emissions" (Scientific Reports, 2019), "Delineating managed land for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (Carbon Balance and Management, 2018), and "Unifying soil organic matter formation and persistence frameworks: the MEMS model" (Biogeosciences, 2019). Awards include the 2016 Fulbright Specialist Program grant (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recognition as an IPCC contributor, and 1995 E. Lucy Braun Award from the Ecological Society of America.