Department News
Donald Zak
- Burton V. Barnes Collegiate Professor
- Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1987
- Zak Lab
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2540 Dana Building
440 Church St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115 - Phone: (734) 763-4991
- Fax: (734) 936-2195
- Email: drzak@umich.edu
Fields of study
Microbial ecology and ecosystem ecology
Academic background
I received my Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1987, and I conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota (1988). I have been at the University of Michigan since 1988, and I have been an associate editor for Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Soil Science Society of America Journal.
Graduate students
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- School of Natural Resources and Environment
Related news
On the U-M Gateway: Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples
The number of sugar maples in Upper Great Lakes forests is likely to decline in coming decades. See accompanying research feature.
Future forests may help to buffer climate change
North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated, research by Professor Don Zak concluded.
