UNL School of Natural Resources

Dr. Larkin Powell is Director for the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The School has 85 faculty with expertise in climate, water/soils, and biodiversity in working landscapes. As professor of conservation biology and animal ecology in the School, Larkin taught undergraduate and graduate courses on wildlife management and research, and his research program focused on landscape dynamics, animal
demography and movements, and decisions made by private landowners in the Great Plains and throughout the world. 

Dr. Powell holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia. On sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar in 2009, he moved with his family to Namibia, where he taught for a year at the Polytechnic University of Namibia. He and his wife, Kelly, now lead study trips for UNL students to Namibia to explore models of conservation.