BIO
Dr. Paul Anderson is the Director of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station, headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As station director, Anderson oversees management of 10 laboratories and research centers in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington as well as 11 active experimental forests, ranges, and watersheds with 300 permanent and seasonal employees. He has been serving in this role since 2017.
Paul brings 26 years of USDA Forest Service research experience to his position providing strategic science leadership and administration for the research programs of the PNW Station. He operates from agency core values, and partnering with a variety of agency, state, university, and other organizations, he is responsible for guiding the station’s delivery of knowledge and tools to inform natural resources management and policy issues of relevance to the full spectrum of stakeholders and the publics the agency serves.
Prior assignments in the Forest Service include research plant physiologist with the North Central Research Station, and supervisory research forester and then research program manager at the PNW Research Station’s Corvallis Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Oregon. Other post-graduate positions included research associate positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California, and with the University of Minnesota’s Aspen and Larch Genetics Cooperative.
A native of Minnesota, Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in forest ecosystems and silviculture from the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. He also holds a master’s degree in forestry and natural resources from Purdue University and a doctorate in wildland resource sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.