Professor Soil and Environmental Microbiology
- Ph.D., Soil Microbiology, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), 1985
- M.S., Forest Soil Microbiology, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC), 1982
- B.S., Forest Science, Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA), 1979
- Environmental Soil Microbiology (undergraduate level)
- Soil Microbiology (graduate level)
- Ecological Soil Microbiology (graduate level)
- Soil and Environmental Microbiology: 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.
- Member - Soil Science Society of America
- Member - American Society for Microbiology
Sojka, R.E., J.A. Entry, and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2006. The influence of high application rates of polyacrylamide on microbial metabolic potential in an agricultural soil. Appl. Soil Ecol. 32:243-252
Entry, J.A., R.E. Sojka, D.K. Mills, J.J. Fuhrmann, K. Mathee, K. Jayachandrahn, and G. Shewmaker. 2006. Management of irrigated agriculture to increase organic carbon storage in soils. In: New Research on Environmental Pollution. Frank Columbus (ed.) Nova publishers. (Book chapter - In press).
Sylvia, D.M., J.J. Fuhrmann, P.G. Hartel, and D.A. Zuberer (ed). 2005. Principles and applications of soil microbiology. 2nd. Ed. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. (textbook)
Fuhrmann, J.J. 2005. Microbial metabolism, p.54-84. In: D.M. Sylvia et al. (ed.), Principles and applications of soil microbiology. 2nd. Ed. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Sylvia, D.M., J.J. Fuhrmann, P.G. Hartel, and D.A. Zuberer (ed). 2005. Instructor’s manual. Principles and applications of soil microbiology. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Entry, J.A., J.J. Fuhrmann, R.E. Sojka, and G.E. Shewmaker. 2004. Influence of irrigated agriculture on soil carbon and microbial community structure. Environ. Manage. 33:S363-S373.
Myoda, S.P., C.A. Carson, J.J. Fuhrmann, B.-K. Hahm, P.G. Hartel, H. Yampara-Iquise, L. Johnson, R.L. Kuntz, C.H. Nakatsu, M.J. Sadowsky, and M. Samadpour. 2004. Comparison of genotypic-based microbial source tracking methods requiring a host origin database. J. Water Health 1:167-180.
Rhine, E.D., J.J. Fuhrmann and M. Radosevich, 2003. Microbial community responses to atrazine exposure and nutrient availability: linking degradation capacity to community structure. Microb. Ecol. 46 :145-160.
Gentry, T.J., D.C. Wolf, C.M. Reynolds, , J.J. Fuhrmann. 2003. Pyrene and phenanthrene influence on soil microbial populations. Bioremediation J. 7:53-68.
Schutter, M.E., and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2001. Soil microbial community responses to fly ash amendment as revealed by analyses of whole soils and bacterial isolates. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33:1947-1958.
Nazih, N., O. Finlay-Moore, P.G. Hartel, and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2001. Whole soil fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles of early soybean rhizosphere as affected by temperature and matric water potential. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33:693-696.
van Berkum, P., and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2001. Characteristics of soybean bradyrhizobia for which serogroup affinities have not been identified. Can. J. Microbiol. 47:519-525.
van Berkum, P., J.J. Fuhrmann. 2000. Evolutionary relationships among the soybean bradyrhizobia reconstructed from 16S rRNA gene and Internally Transcribed Spacer region sequence divergence. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50:2165-2172.
Fang, C., M. Radosevich, J.J. Fuhrmann. 2001. Characterization of rhizosphere microbial community structure in five similar grass species using FAME and BIOLOG analyses. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33:679-682.
Fang, C., M. Radosevich, J.J. Fuhrmann. 2001. Atrazine and phenanthrene degradation in grass rhizosphere soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33:671-678.
Entry, J.A., R.K. Hubbard, J.E. Thies, and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2000. The influence of vegetation in riparian filterstrips on coliform bacteria. I. Movement and survival in water. J. Environ. Qual. 29:1206-1214.
Entry, J.A., R.K. Hubbard, J.E. Thies, and J.J. Fuhrmann. 2000. The influence of vegetation in riparian filterstrips on coliform bacteria. II. Survival in soils. J. Environ. Qual. 29:1215-1224.
Contact Information:
Dr. Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, Ph.D.
Professor of Soil and Environmental Microbiology
Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences
164 Townsend Hall (office)
302 Worrilow Hall (lab)
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: 302-831-1371
e-mail: fuhrmann@udel.edu