Jean Steiner

Dr. Steiner leads and conducts integrated systems research to enhance sustainability of agriculture. In this project, she is a Senior Science Coordinator in the NMSU Department of Animal and Range Sciences, working with the Project Director and Team Leads to facilitate cross-team communication and integration. Through her career, she has worked in irrigated and rainfed cropping systems, humid pasture systems, and sub-humid native prairie systems, as well as in linked crop-livestock systems. As former Director of the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno Oklahoma, she was lead scientist for the Southern Plains site of the USDA ARS Long Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network, leader in the USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub, and co-lead on the USDA-NIFA-CAP project focused on resilience of Southern Plains beef cattle grazing systems under changing climate.