William "Bill" E. Fox, III
Assistant Professor
Phone: (979) 458-3315
Email: w-fox@tamu.edu
Dr. William E. "Bill" Fox is an assistant professor with Texas AgriLife Research at the Blackland Research & Extension Center (BREC) in Temple, Texas and serves as an adjunct faculty member with the Ecosystem Science & Management Department at Texas A&M University.
Fox's research focuses on restoration of drastically disturbed rangelands with an emphasis on recovery of military training lands. He is currently studying the impacts amendments to soils and soil conditioning have on restoring desirable vegetation in areas of accelerated erosion on military installations.
Fox has partnered with scientists at BREC in an effort to adapt bio-physical, process based simulation models (APEX/SWAT) for application on military landscapes. His efforts provide military land managers with tools to optimize training land recovery programs as well as stewardship of the military installation’s natural resource base.
Fox is additionally working to apply these simulation models to other industries and land forms for aid as decision support tools for land managers.
Fox earned a bachelor’s degree in range science from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree in animal and range sciences from New Mexico State University, and a doctorate in rangeland ecology and management from Texas A&M University.
