Meet the Faculty

Dr. Neil Hansen joined the Colorado State University faculty in 2004 as an associate professor in the department of soil and crop sciences. His teaching responsibilities include SC420 and SC421, Crop and Soil Management Systems I and II. Dr. Hansen earned his bachelor of science in agronomy in 1992 and his masters of science in agronomy in 1994 from Brigham Young University. He completed his doctorate in soil physics at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Neil comes to CSU from the University of Minnesota where he worked in the department of soil, water and climate as a soil scientist and water quality specialist.
Although Dr. Hansen has a great deal of interest in dryland cropping systems, he quickly realized the need to address the loss of irrigation water in his research and outreach programs. Neil subsequently developed a cooperative research and demonstration project with the objective of sustaining profitable cropping systems in the environment of increasing competition for a limited water supply.