Volk, Tyler

Tyler Volk is science director of the environmental studies program and an associate professor of biology at New York University.  For more than 20 years his research has focused on the global carbon cycle, the dynamics of the biosphere, and, through NASA, on closed ecological systems for life support.  He is a systems thinker, authoring books such as Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind, which develops the concept of convergences in form and function that cross boundaries of biology, culture, and mind, and Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth, which gives a multi-scale look at the roles of life in the chemistry of the biosphere.