Departmental Foci and Faculty Expertise

CROP SCIENCE

Crop Ecology and Management:

• Archibald - Agricultural analytical chemistry
• Curran - Applied research in weed science
• Gallagher - Sustainable cropping systems
• Hall - Applied research in forages
• Karsten - Pasture plant ecology and physiology
• Mortensen - Ecology of sustainable cropping systems
• Roth - Corn and sorghum management

Plant Breeding and Molecular Biology:

• Chopra - Maize genetics
• Huff - Turfgrass breeding and genetics
• Luthe - Plant stress biology

Turfgrass Science:

• Borger - Turfgrass weed management
• Kaminski - Turfgrass certificate program
• Landschoot - Extension turfgrass management systems
• McNitt - Athletic playing fields
• Schlossberg - Turfgrass nutrition and fertility
• Turgeon - Turfgrass management, distance education

SOIL SCIENCE

Biogeochemical Processes:

• Bruns - Soil microbial ecology
• Kaye - Biogeochemistry, nitrogen dynamics
• Komarneni - Clay mineralogy
• Martínez - Soil environmental chemistry
• Sylvia - Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

Land Use:

• Day - Land use analysis, GIS
• Drohan - Pedology
• Duiker - Soil management and applied soil physics

Soil and Water Quality:

• Butler - Undergraduate education
• Beegle - Plant nutrition, soil testing, nutrient management
• Fritton - Soil physical properties
• Lin - Hydropedology, soil physics/hydrology
• Stehouwer - Applied environmental soil science
• Watson - Soil, water and solute interactions