Thematic Areas

Thematic Areas

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: P
lant-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: P
lant-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