Provided As the principle investigator for the Working Lands Innovation Center, CALS Dean Benjamin Z. Houlton worked with farmers and ranchers in California to identify opportunities for improving soil health, forage biomass and carbon sequestration. CALS dean joins CCE podcast to talk leading through extension February 23, 2021 In the latest episode of “Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shares his vision for carrying out Cornell’s land grant mission. From his Midwestern agricultural heritage to his most recent faculty position at the University of California, Davis, Houlton leads listeners through the journey that brought him and his family to Ithaca, New York.