Renewable Fuels Action Summit Biographies

Jon Hanson

Dr. Jon Hanson is the Research Leader and a Supervisory Rangeland Scientist of the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, North Dakota. He received his Ph.D. in Range Science from Texas A&M University in 1979.

Jon began his career with ARS in 1979 at the High Plains Grassland Research Station in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The bulk of his career was spent in Fort Collins, CO where he continued to work in both range and crop land agroecosystems.

Jon's goal has been to contribute toward the development and implementation of sustainable and adaptive management systems for agriculture and natural resources. His work has lead to the development and implementation of simulation models and decision support tools including SPUR, SPUR2, RZWQM, RZWQM98, GPFARM, and the Crop Sequence Calculator.

He is a member of the Society for Range Management, the Agronomy Society of America, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America.

In 2004, he graduated from the ARS PEAK training program and in 2006 he received an NPA Mentor of the Year Award.