Area of Specialization
- Applying the concepts and tools of pedology to solve environmental problems.
- Soil formation processes in tidal wetland soils including organic matter accumulation and decomposition, greenhouse gas fluxes, wetland elevation dynamics and sustainability in the face of sea-level rise and other climate change factors, and carbon crediting schemes.
- Soil formation and variation effects on nutrient and sediment fate and transport in agricultural landscapes.
- Integrated environmental and social science research to implement change.
Education
- B.I.S in International Studies from School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, 1993.
- M.S. in Agronomy - Soils from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1997.
- Ph.D. in Soil Science (Pedology) from Penn State, University Park, PA, 2002.
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