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Michelle Arthur
Research Topic: Competition between native and invasive species under salinity, nitrogen and flooding treatments
Vitalia Baranyai
Research Topic: Minimizing nutrient loss from field stored poultry litter.
Ashley Belle
Research Topic: Enhancing methane production in dairy-manure based anaerobic digesters through co-digestion with forage radish cover crops.
Wesley Bickford
Research Topic: Above and belowground vegetation response to prescribed fire in Mid-Atlantic brackish marshes.
Saptashati (Tania) Biswas
Research Topic: Multi-scale investigation of Ionophores in poultry litter and litter amended soil as emerging contaminant and optimization of method using a liquid chromatograph coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for quantification.
Dominic Brose
Research Topic: The use of alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acids in the reduction of hexavalent chromium in chromite ore processing residue (COPR) and chromium contaminated soils.
Elliott Campbell
Research Topic: Valuing ecosystem services provided by Maryland's forests using environmental accounting.
Cheryl Carmona
Research Topic: Nutrient mineralization in fresh and pelletized poultry litter.
Jenna Clark
Research Topic: Effects of rising sea levels on coastal wetlands in the Mid-Atlantic region with a focus on biomass allocation and the competitive interactions between a native and a non-native species.
Catherine DeSarle
Research Topic: Sorption and solubility dynamics in chromium-contaminated soils: tnteractions with oxidation-reduction processes.
Research Topic: Global environmental changes and phenotypic adaptability among competing mosquitoes.
Daniel Fenstermacher
Research Topic: Carbon storage in restored Delmarva Bay wetlands.
Kristin Fisher
Research Topic: Nitrogen cycling and water quality in agro-ecosystems.
Nicole Fiorellino
Research Topic: Nutrient management.
Zach Freed
Research Topic: Testing predator-mediated coexistence of the mosquito A. japonicus with the competitively superior congener A. albopictus: Invasive ecology in the Potomac Basin.
George Geatz
Research Topic: Nutrient availability and organic matter decomposition response to prescribed burns in Mid-Atlantic brackish marshes.
Margaret Guthrie
Research Topic: Cover crop effects on soil-borne plant disease.
David Hamrum
Research Topic: Temperature effects on the kinetics of phosphorus sorption.
Michelle Hetu
Research Topic: Assessing reducing conditions in soils along a topohydrosequence.
Amy Hudson
Research Topic: Emergy in environmental accounting.
Christina Langlois
Research Topic: Chromium chemistry at soil oxidation-reduction interfaces defined by iron and manganese oxides.
Natalie Lounsbury
Research Topic: Low-residue winterkilled cover crops for no-till vegetable planting.
Taras Lychuk
Research Topic: Development and simulation of climate change adaptation options for agriculture in the U.S. Midwest region.
Serena Matt
Research Topic: Ecology and functionality of green walls.
Andrew Moss
Research Topic: Anaerobic digestion for small-scale agricultural and developing world applications.
Annie Rossi
Research Topic: Pedogenesis and hydromorphology of soils in Mid-Atlantic Barrier Island landscapes.
David Ruppert
Research Topic: Hydrology and organic matter impacts on phosphorus surption in drainage ditch soils.
Brandon Scott
Research Topic: Biodiversity, water quality and mosquitoes in stormwater wetlands.
Kendall Lyn Simon
Research Topic: Monitoring home-range and habitat use of adult bald eagles.
Casie Smith
Research Topic: Testing whether factors associated with climate change will affect the population dynamics of two local mosquito populations.
Katherine Strass
Research Topic: Design, construction, and validation of plug-flow anaerobic digesters modified for temperate climates.
John White
Research Topic: Recalcitrant macromolecules in plant roots and potential for transfer to soil organic matter.
Brandon Winfrey
Research Topic: Emergy evaluations of wastewater treatment technologies.
Freddy Witarsa
Research Topic: Anaerobic digestion of dairy manure.
Julie Wolf
Research Topic: The effects of future global change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil carbon: using urbanization as a surrogate for future conditions in field studies.
Metthea Yepsen
Research Topic: Wetland plant ecology and wetland restoration.
Michael Brown
Research Topic: The potential production of useful byproducts (duckweed and algae) in recirculating aquaculture systems.
Michelle M. Weber
Research Topic: Economic Analysis of the Algal Tuf Scrubber and its potential for nutrient trading and biofuel production.
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Last updated: 03/28/2012
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