Deputy Director
Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES)

and

Associate Dean for Research
College of Agricultural Sciences
Colorado State University (CSU)

Dr. Jeffrey Steiner is the Deputy Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University. The experiment station supports research across the university involving 244 faculty researchers from 15 academic departments in seven colleges, and whose impact reaches from the Fort Collins campus to seven research centers around the state. With expertise in a wide range of agricultural systems and a strong interdisciplinary research background, he cultivates partnerships and facilitates research program development among faculty, industries, government agencies, and commodity groups to discover innovative ways for farms and ranches to use technologies that improve productivity, profitability, energy efficiency, and resource stewardship. 

Prior to coming to CSU, Jeff was the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Program Leader for Bioenergy with the agency's headquarters staff near Washington, D.C. where he helped create the USDA Regional Biomass Research Centers. He also served as Senior Energy Advisor in the USDA Office of the Chief Scientist, and was the principal co-author of the President’s Interagency Working Group’s Growing America’s Fuel report. He was involved in the implementation of new strategic USDA private-public partnerships formed among the Department of Navy (Navy), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Department of Energy (DOE) with the commercial air transportation industry, technology providers, and energy companies. These included the USDA and FAA Farm-to-Fly agreement with Airlines for America and the Boeing Company, and the Navy-DOE-USDA Defense Production Act Advanced Drop-In Biofuels Production Project to establish commercial aviation biofuel production facilities.