College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Dr. Carmine Balascio
Associate Professor, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: storm water management, surface water quality, hydrologic modeling

Dr. Anastasia Chirnside
Assistant Professor, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: water quality and waste management, lab analysis, bioremediation

Dr. David Hansen
Associate Professor, Soil & Environmental Quality

Keywords: nitrogen and phosphorus management in production agriculture, sand bedding in poultry houses, tree plantings around confinement units

Dr. Yan Jin
Professor, Environmental Soil Physics

Keywords: colloid and colloid-facilitated contaminant transport in porous media, removal and inactivation of waterborne viruses

Dr. Tom Sims
T.A. Baker Professor, Soil and Environmental Chemistry
Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Research

Keywords: cycling, fate, and transport of phosphorus and nitrogen in soils and the development of profitable, environmentally sound agricultural nutrient management practices

Dr. Bruce Vasilas
Professor, Soil and Crop Management

Keywords :identification, morphology and interpretation of hydric soils, wetlands ecology, wetland identification and delineation

Dr. Eric Wommack
Associate Professor, Environmental Microbiology

Keywords: viruses and viral infection in microbial communities, population level processes in microbial communities

Dr. Gregory Binford
Associate Professor, Soil & Water Quality

Keywords: optimizing crop production, impact of nutrient management, soil testing, tissue testing

Dr. Jeffry Fuhrmann
Professor, Environmental Microbiology

Keywords: ecology and diversity of microbial populations in soil-plant systems; microbial community responses to environmental perturbations; effects of soil-borne viruses on microbial communities; symbiotic nitrogen fixation

Dr. James Glancey
Associate Professor, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: application of the solid mechanics, controls, sensors, development of new or improved products and automated processes; the forensics of product failures

Dr. Shreeram Inamdar
Associate Professor, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: watersheds, riparian and wetland ecosystems

Dr. William Ritter
Professor and Chair, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: groundwater pollution waste management water quality modeling surface water contamination irrigation management

Dr. Donald Sparks
Professor, Soil Chemistry
S. Hallock du Pont Chair

Keywords: kinetics of soil chemical processes, surface chemistry of soils and soil components using in-situ spectroscopic and microscopic techniques and the physical chemistry of soil potassium

Dr. Kyungsoo Yoo
Assistant Professor, Soil and Land Resources

Keywords:geochemical and geomorphic evolution of soil covered landscapes and regional to global biogeochemical cycles