Dr. Bruce Maxwell is Professor of Applied Plant Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Maxwell was instrumental in the formation of the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science and has received national awards for outstanding teaching, best peer reviewed papers and outstanding graduate student from the Weed Science Society of America.  Maxwell’s research can be generally characterized as an application of ecological principles to resource management in natural and agro-ecosystems and synthesizing large amounts of field information from modern sensors to better understand the agroecosystem.