Thomas H. DeLuca holds a doctorate from Iowa State University, a master’s degree from Montana State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all in soil science, and lived in both Sweden and the United Kingdom during his research career. Prior to joining OSU, he was dean of the University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation for over three years and spent five years as director and professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Before that he held faculty and research positions at Bangor University in North Wales; at the Wilderness Society; at SLU in Sweden; at the University of Montana; and at Slippery Rock University.