Our world-class AGNR researchers offer their expertise in the following thematic areas.
AI in Agriculture
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Allen Pattillo : Faculty Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Shellfish Aquaculture
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Fereshteh Shahoveisi : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass Pathology
Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling, Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health
Animal-Human Vector Diseases
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry
Jennifer Mullinax : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Policy Program
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Modeling, Environmental Science
Utpal Pal : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Entomology
Areas of Focus: Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and Vector Biology
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: food safety and risk assessment
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Sean Riley : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Spotted Fever Rickettsia
Maria Salvato : Adjunct Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Nathaniel Tablante : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry Health
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Yanjin Zhang : Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Molecular virology, Virus-cell interactions, Innate immunity, antiviral signaling, Vaccine development
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Biofuels and Bioproducts
Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Understanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches
Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Waste to energy
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Biotechnology
Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management
Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health
Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Understanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches
Galen Dively : Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression
Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization
Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk
Daniel Nelson : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Development of antimicrobial alternatives to antibiotics
Utpal Pal : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Entomology
Areas of Focus: Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and Vector Biology
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Nidhi Rawat : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens, Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection, Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens, Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley
Maria Salvato : Adjunct Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Climate Change Adaptation
Anna Alberini : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Econometrics and Statistics
Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management
William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: how plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science
Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: plant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops
Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Waste to energy
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Mengjun Hu : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Small Fruit Disease Management, Fungicide Resistance and its Mechanism, Fungal Epidemiology
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Jorge Holzer : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Uncertainty, Marine Resource Economics
Byoung-Suk Kweon : Associate Professor Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental Behavior, Environment and Health, School and Children’s Environment, Landscape Performance, Environmental Justice
William Lamp : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Ecology of insects in the human environment, and my projects align within three broad fields: integrated pest management (IPM) of forage crops, understanding ecology of emerging insect pests, and implications of IPM and land use on invertebrates in streams and wetlands
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Extension
Areas of Focus: Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy
Eric Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
Kate McClure : Agent Associate, Sea Grant Extension
Areas of Focus: Climate Change, Coastal Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Sea Grant
Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk
David Myers : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Landscape Architecture
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
Maile Neel : Professor, Entomology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Biological diversity, conservation biology
Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecosystem services, Urban Ecology, Forest ecology, Stormwater, Socio-ecological systems, Green infrastructure, Resilience
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics
Azbina Rahman : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk
Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change
Ginny Rosenkranz : Principal Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Ornamental IPM, Turfgrass IPM
Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation
Fereshteh Shahoveisi : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass Pathology
Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling, Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment
Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes
David Tilley : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Entrepreneurship, Ecological Innovation, Design & Engineering, Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture
Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Jared Wilmoth : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental soil systems
Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Climate Change Mitigation
Anna Alberini : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Econometrics and Statistics
Andrew Baldwin : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecology of tidal and inland wetlands, Wetland restoration, Botany and plant ecology
Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Understanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Waste to energy
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy
Josh Linn : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
David Myers : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Landscape Architecture
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics
Martin Rabenhorst : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Genesis, morphology, and classification of hydromorphic soils
Azbina Rahman : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change
Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management
Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling, Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment
Paula Shrewsbury : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Ornamental IPM, Sustainable Agriculture, Invasive Species Management
Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Neslihan Uler : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Roberton Williams : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Energy Economics
Jared Wilmoth : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental soil systems
Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Ecology and Conservation
Andrew Baldwin : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecology of tidal and inland wetlands, Wetland restoration, Botany and plant ecology
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals
Shannon Browne : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Wildlife, Urban, Ecology, Biology
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science
Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management
Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Daniel Gruner : Associate Professor, Entomology : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Entomology, Ecology, Biodiversity
Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops
Reginal Harrell : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Areas of Focus: Fisheries, Wildlife Science, Ecological and Natural Resource Ethics
Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Waste to energy
David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Thomas Hutson : Principal Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, Scientific Literacy, Environmental Education, Agricultural Education
William Lamp : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Ecology of insects in the human environment, and my projects align within three broad fields: integrated pest management (IPM) of forage crops, understanding ecology of emerging insect pests, and implications of IPM and land use on invertebrates in streams and wetlands
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Jennifer Mullinax : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Policy Program
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Modeling, Environmental Science
David Myers : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Landscape Architecture
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
Maile Neel : Professor, Entomology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Biological diversity, conservation biology
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecosystem services, Urban Ecology, Forest ecology, Stormwater, Socio-ecological systems, Green infrastructure, Resilience
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change
Ginny Rosenkranz : Principal Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Ornamental IPM, Turfgrass IPM
Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation
Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Paula Shrewsbury : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Ornamental IPM, Sustainable Agriculture, Invasive Species Management
Jeffrey Shultz : Associate Professor, Entomology
Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes
David Tilley : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Entrepreneurship, Ecological Innovation, Design & Engineering, Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture
Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Roberton Williams : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Energy Economics
Jared Wilmoth : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental soil systems
Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function
Lance Yonkos : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Laboratory and field studies of contaminant abundance, transport, fate and toxicological effect in fresh and estuarine surface waters and sediments
Economic Viability of Agricultural Production
Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Jing Cai : Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Household Finance
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets
Micheal Elonge : Senior Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Wellness, Food Safety, Health Literacy
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Nicole Fiorellino : Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Agriculture Extension
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops
David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management
Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy
Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry
Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk
Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Matt Parker : Principal Agent Associate, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, Extension
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Business & Production
Allen Pattillo : Faculty Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Shellfish Aquaculture
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Sarah Potts : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy and Livestock Management, Calf Management, Beef Nutrition and Management
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Thanicha Ruangmas : First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) Program, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management
Jeff Semler : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Small ruminants, Forage Systems Management, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Agronomy Field Crops, Rotational Grazing
Don Webster : Principal Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Marine Science, Commercial Aquaculture, Commercial Fisheries, Seafood Handling and Processing, Aquaculture Policy
Energy
Anna Alberini : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Econometrics and Statistics
Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options
Environmental Regulation
Anna Alberini: Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Econometrics and Statistics
William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals
Mark Carroll : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy Program and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass, Water Quality, Nutrients, Pesticides, Runoff, Organic Lawn Care
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science
Galen Dively: Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
Candice Duncan : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Contaminant Transport
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Reginal Harrell : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Areas of Focus: Fisheries, Wildlife Science, Ecological and Natural Resource Ethics
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Jorge Holzer : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Uncertainty, Marine Resource Economics
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning
Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Josh Linn : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization
David Myers : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Landscape Architecture
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
Maile Neel : Professor, Entomology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Biological diversity, conservation biology
Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics
Martin Rabenhorst : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Genesis, morphology, and classification of hydromorphic soils
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Ginny Rosenkranz : Principal Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Ornamental IPM, Turfgrass IPM
Thanicha Ruangmas : First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) Program, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility
Neslihan Uler : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics
Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health
Roberton Williams : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Energy Economics
Lance Yonkos : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Laboratory and field studies of contaminant abundance, transport, fate and toxicological effect in fresh and estuarine surface waters and sediments
Food Safety
Roselina Angel : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Poultry, Maximizing nutrient availability from diets with the goal of reducing environmental impact as well as improving production efficiency and costs of production, Minimizing the impact of poultry production on the environment, primarily as related to phosphorus and nitrogen
Erich Battistin : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Applied micro-econometrics and causality, Economics of education, Measurement of welfare and social inequalities, Design and evaluation of public interventions
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Macarena Farcuh : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Fruit quality, Fruit ripening, Postharvest physiology, Fruit biochemistry and molecular biology, Fruit safety, Fruit hormonal balance
Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology
Mostafa Ghanem : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Harness the use and application of advanced molecular diagnostic and genotyping techniques in surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases to improve the health and wellbeing of animals and humans
David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Mengjun Hu : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Small Fruit Disease Management, Fungicide Resistance and its Mechanism, Fungal Epidemiology
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Beverly Jackey : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease Management, Food Preservation, Food Safety, Healthy living environments, Nutrition
Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology
Jinhee Kim : Associate Dean and Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Literacy, Family relations and health, Financial education and counseling
Byung-Eun Kim : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: To elucidate the molecules and the mechanisms required for copper homeostasis in cellular, organismal, and behavioral level
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression
Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Catherine Liu : Senior Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Extension
Areas of Focus: Seafood Safety and Processing
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: food safety and risk assessment
Shaik Rahaman : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Cell signaling, Atherosclerosis, Fibrosis, Macrophages and fibroblast biology, Immunology
Nidhi Rawat : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens, Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection, Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens, Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk
Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology
Mohamed Salem : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Genomics, Muscle biology
Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and management
Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans
Chad Stahl : Professor & Chair, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Improving swine growth via nutritional programming of Stem Cell Populations, Developmental nutrition, Tissue-specific stem cells, Alternatives to conventional antibiotics
Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes
Nishanth Sunny : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Liver metabolism, Mitochondrial function, Insulin resistance, Fatty liver disease
Crystal Terhune : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Capability, Financial Wellness
Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Margaret Udahogora : Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Dietetics
Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry
Don Webster : Principal Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Marine Science, Commercial Aquaculture, Commercial Fisheries, Seafood Handling and Processing, Aquaculture Policy
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis
Zhengguo Xiao : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of plant broad-spectrum resistance mediated by RPW8 against powdery mildew fungi
Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Food Security
Roselina Angel : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Poultry, Maximizing nutrient availability from diets with the goal of reducing environmental impact as well as improving production efficiency and costs of production, Minimizing the impact of poultry production on the environment, primarily as related to phosphorus and nitrogen
Erich Battistin : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Applied micro-econometrics and causality, Economics of education, Measurement of welfare and social inequalities, Design and evaluation of public interventions
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Macarena Farcuh : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Fruit quality, Fruit ripening, Postharvest physiology, Fruit biochemistry and molecular biology, Fruit safety, Fruit hormonal balance
Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology
Mostafa Ghanem : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Harness the use and application of advanced molecular diagnostic and genotyping techniques in surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases to improve the health and wellbeing of animals and humans
David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Mengjun Hu : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Small Fruit Disease Management, Fungicide Resistance and its Mechanism, Fungal Epidemiology
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Beverly Jackey : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease Management, Food Preservation, Food Safety, Healthy living environments, Nutrition
Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology
Jinhee Kim : Associate Dean and Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Literacy, Family relations and health, Financial education and counseling
Byung-Eun Kim : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: To elucidate the molecules and the mechanisms required for copper homeostasis in cellular, organismal, and behavioral level
Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning
Seong-Ho Lee : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutritional Physiology, Toxicology, Cancer Prevention, Phytochemicals and Functional Foods, Metabolism and Obesity
David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression
Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Catherine Liu : Senior Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Extension
Areas of Focus: Seafood Safety and Processing
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Shaik Rahaman : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Cell signaling, Atherosclerosis, Fibrosis, Macrophages and fibroblast biology, Immunology
Nidhi Rawat : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens, Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection, Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens, Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk
Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology
Mohamed Salem : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Genomics, Muscle biology
Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Fereshteh Shahoveisi : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass Pathology
Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and management
Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans
Chad Stahl : Professor & Chair, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Improving swine growth via nutritional programming of Stem Cell Populations, Developmental nutrition, Tissue-specific stem cells, Alternatives to conventional antibiotics
Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes
Nishanth Sunny : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Liver metabolism, Mitochondrial function, Insulin resistance, Fatty liver disease
Crystal Terhune : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Capability, Financial Wellness
Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems
Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: climate change outreach and extension
Margaret Udahogora : Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Dietetics
Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry
Don Webster : Principal Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Marine Science, Commercial Aquaculture, Commercial Fisheries, Seafood Handling and Processing, Aquaculture Policy
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis
Zhengguo Xiao : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of plant broad-spectrum resistance mediated by RPW8 against powdery mildew fungi
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Nutrition and Health
Roselina Angel : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Poultry, Maximizing nutrient availability from diets with the goal of reducing environmental impact as well as improving production efficiency and costs of production, Minimizing the impact of poultry production on the environment, primarily as related to phosphorus and nitrogen
Erich Battistin : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Applied micro-econometrics and causality, Economics of education, Measurement of welfare and social inequalities, Design and evaluation of public interventions
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety
Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Macarena Farcuh : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Fruit quality, Fruit ripening, Postharvest physiology, Fruit biochemistry and molecular biology, Fruit safety, Fruit hormonal balance
Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology
David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Mengjun Hu : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Small Fruit Disease Management, Fungicide Resistance and its Mechanism, Fungal Epidemiology
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Beverly Jackey : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease Management, Food Preservation, Food Safety, Healthy living environments, Nutrition
Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology
Jinhee Kim : Associate Dean and Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Literacy, Family relations and health, Financial education and counseling
Byung-Eun Kim : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: To elucidate the molecules and the mechanisms required for copper homeostasis in cellular, organismal, and behavioral level
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Seong-Ho Lee : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutritional Physiology, Toxicology, Cancer Prevention, Phytochemicals and Functional Foods, Metabolism and Obesity
David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression
Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Catherine Liu : Senior Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Extension
Areas of Focus: Seafood Safety and Processing
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources
Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Shaik Rahaman : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Cell signaling, Atherosclerosis, Fibrosis, Macrophages and fibroblast biology, Immunology
Nidhi Rawat : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens, Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection, Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens, Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk
Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology
Mohamed Salem : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Genomics, Muscle biology
Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and management
Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans
Chad Stahl : Professor & Chair, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Improving swine growth via nutritional programming of Stem Cell Populations, Developmental nutrition, Tissue-specific stem cells, Alternatives to conventional antibiotics
Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes
Nishanth Sunny : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Liver metabolism, Mitochondrial function, Insulin resistance, Fatty liver disease
Crystal Terhune : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Capability, Financial Wellness
Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems
Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Margaret Udahogora : Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Dietetics
Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry
Don Webster : Principal Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Marine Science, Commercial Aquaculture, Commercial Fisheries, Seafood Handling and Processing, Aquaculture Policy
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Zhengguo Xiao : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of plant broad-spectrum resistance mediated by RPW8 against powdery mildew fungi
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry
One Health
George Belov : Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of membrane remodeling in cells infected with positive strand RNA viruses
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals
Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology
Mostafa Ghanem : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: harness the use and application of advanced molecular diagnostic and genotyping techniques in surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases to improve the health and wellbeing of animals and humans
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Reginal Harrell : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Areas of Focus: Fisheries, Wildlife Science, Ecological and Natural Resource Ethics
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Younggeon Jin : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Gastrointestinal Health and Physiology, Intestinal Stem Cells, Intestinal Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Andrew Lazur : Water Quality Specialist – Principal Agent, Sea Grant and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Drinking Water Quality, Wells, Septic Systems, Pond Management
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa
Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle
Jennifer Mullinax : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Policy Program
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Modeling, Environmental Science
Daniel Nelson : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Development of antimicrobial alternatives to antibiotics
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Navonne Owen : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H
Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk
Sean Riley : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Spotted Fever Rickettsia
Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology
Mohamed Salem : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Genomics, Muscle biology
Maria Salvato : Adjunct Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Meiqing Shi : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Host immune responses to fungal infection and parasite infection
Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and management
Chad Stahl : Professor & Chair, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Improving swine growth via nutritional programming of Stem Cell Populations, Developmental nutrition, Tissue-specific stem cells, Alternatives to conventional antibiotics
Nishanth Sunny : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Liver metabolism, Mitochondrial function, Insulin resistance, Fatty liver disease
Nathaniel Tablante : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry Health
Lisa Taneyhill : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Early embryonic patterning, Intercellular interactions and communication, Neural crest cells, Placode cells
Crystal Terhune : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Capability, Financial Wellness
Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Zhengguo Xiao : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of plant broad-spectrum resistance mediated by RPW8 against powdery mildew fungi
Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry
Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy
Soil Health
Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science
Galen Dively : Professor Emeritus and Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management
Candice Duncan : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Contaminant Transport
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management
Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Kelly Nichols : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture, Nutrient Management, Pesticide Education, Soil Fertility, Weed Management
Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Sarah Potts : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy and Livestock Management, Calf Management, Beef Nutrition and Management
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Martin Rabenhorst : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Genesis, morphology, and classification of hydromorphic soils
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture
Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management
Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Jared Wilmoth : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental soil systems
Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function
Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics
Urban Ecosystem Management for Human and Ecosystem Health
Shannon Browne : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Wildlife, Urban, Ecology, Biology
Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems
Mark Carroll : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy Program and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass, Water Quality, Nutrients, Pesticides, Runoff, Organic Lawn Care
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
Micheal Elonge : Senior Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Wellness, Food Safety, Health Literacy
John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value
Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology
Daniel Gruner : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Entomology, Ecology, Biodiversity
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Byung-Eun Kim : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: To elucidate the molecules and the mechanisms required for copper homeostasis in cellular, organismal, and behavioral level
John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Jennifer Mullinax : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Policy Program
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Modeling, Environmental Science
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecosystem services, Urban Ecology, Forest ecology, Stormwater, Socio-ecological systems, Green infrastructure, Resilience
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics
Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia
Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change
Ginny Rosenkranz : Principal Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Ornamental IPM, Turfgrass IPM
Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation
Paula Shrewsbury : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Ornamental IPM, Sustainable Agriculture, Invasive Species Management
Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling, Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
David Tilley : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Entrepreneurship, Ecological Innovation, Design & Engineering, Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Lance Yonkos : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Laboratory and field studies of contaminant abundance, transport, fate and toxicological effect in fresh and estuarine surface waters and sediments
Water Quality and Water Security
Roselina Angel : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Poultry, Maximizing nutrient availability from diets with the goal of reducing environmental impact as well as improving production efficiency and costs of production, Minimizing the impact of poultry production on the environment, primarily as related to phosphorus and nitrogen
Craig Beyrouty : Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science
William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals
Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science
Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity
Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets
Jennifer Dindinger : Senior Agent, Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Facilitation, Stormwater
Candice Duncan : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Contaminant Transport
Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
Nicole Fiorellino : Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Agriculture Extension
Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance
Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Waste to energy
Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition
Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems
Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics
Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization
Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder
Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health
Andrew Lazur : Water Quality Specialist – Principal Agent, Sea Grant and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Drinking Water Quality, Wells, Septic Systems, Pond Management
John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning
Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology
Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy
Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment
Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms
Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management
Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy
Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis
Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems
David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling
Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems
Allen Pattillo : Faculty Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, Extension
Areas of Focus: Shellfish Aquaculture
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecosystem services, Urban Ecology, Forest ecology, Stormwater, Socio-ecological systems, Green infrastructure, Resilience
Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment
Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics
Azbina Rahman : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology
Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia
Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change
Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling, Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment
Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management
David Tilley : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Entrepreneurship, Ecological Innovation, Design & Engineering, Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture
Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility
Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension
Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality
Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology
Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur
Lance Yonkos : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Laboratory and field studies of contaminant abundance, transport, fate and toxicological effect in fresh and estuarine surface waters and sediments