| Researcher |
Expertise |
Lynda Ciuffetti
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Molecular genetics of plant-parasitic fungi; evaluation of pathogenicity factors. |
Kermit Cromack
Department of Forest Science |
Decomposition and nutrient cycling processes in forest ecosystems; N2- fixation in forest soils; soil animals as ecosystem components; role of saprophytic and mycorrhizal fungi in nutrient cyclingprocesses; role of cations in forest nutrition. |
Maria Dragila
Department of Crop and Soil Science |
Mechanisms generating accelerated transport of fluids and solutes through highly heterogeneous unsaturated soils. |
Martin R. Fisk
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences |
Marine geologist working with sea floor volcanoes and microbes in volcanic rocks. Comparison of rocks from Earth and other planetary bodies. |
Roy Haggerty
Department of Geosciences |
Exchange of water between streams and the shallow subsurface (the hyporheic zone), groundwater flow modeling, and on the physics of solute transport in highly heterogeneous materials. |
Mark Harmon
Department of Forest Science |
Ecosystem succession processes, decomposition, nutrient cycling, carbon dynamics, landscape dynamics. |
Russell Ingham
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Soil nematodes and their role in soil ecology and as a plant pathogen. |
Kate Lajtha
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Nutrient cycling in natural and human-disturbed ecosystems, soil organic matter dynamics, forest biogeochemistry. |
Beverly Law
Department of Forest Science |
Ecosystem processes, including carbon and water cycling (e.g. photosynthesis, transpiration by trees and shrubs, autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration). |
James McMannus
College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
Past climate and geochemical cycles, modern geochemical processes in the ocean, estuaries, rivers, and lakes. |
Andrew Moldenke
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Plant/insect interactions; pollination ecology; soil invertebrates and nutrient cycling; taxonomy of Coleoptera; behavioral evolution of bees; biological diversity and food-web structure. |
David Myrold
Department of Crop and Soil Science |
Diversity, ecology, and functioning of microorganisms in soil; particularly as they relate to the cycling of N and C in soils of forest and agricultural ecosystems. |
John Selker
Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering |
Physics and biology of contaminant transport in unsaturated soils, with particular interest in the connection between biological growth and water movement. |
Joey Spatafora
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Molecular systematics and population genetics of fungi. |
Dorthe Wildenschild
Department of Geosciences |
Hydrogeology, vadose zone flow and transport, measurement techniques and numerical modeling. |
