Ingrid Burke

Indy Burke
Alma materMiddlebury College (B.S. in Biology), University of Wyoming (PhD in Botany)
SpouseWilliam Lauenroth
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsEcosystem Ecology, Biogeochemistry

Ingrid C. "Indy" Burke is the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of the Environment. She is the first female dean in the school's 125-year history. Her area of research is ecosystem ecology with a primary focus on carbon cycling and nitrogen cycling in semi-arid rangeland ecosystems. She teaches on subjects relating to ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry.