Faculty

Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Adam Birr Adjunct Assistant Professor	Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Kenneth Blumenfeld Senior Climatologist, Minnesota State Climate Office, Adjunct Assistant Professor		[email protected]
Anna Cates Associate Extension Professor	Soil Health, Soil Carbon, Soil Organic Matter Pools, Soil Aggregation, Cropping Systems	[email protected]
Brent Dalzell Adjunct Assistant Professor	Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Ecosystem Modeling	[email protected]
Mindy Erickson Adjunct Professor	Hydrogeology, Groundwater, Contaminants and Pollution	[email protected]
Fabian Fernandez Professor, Co-Director of Graduate Studies	Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Joshua Gamble Adjunct Assistant Professor	Agroecology, Cropping Systems, Agronomy	[email protected]
Timothy Griffis Professor	Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions, Biogeochemistry, Biometeorology	[email protected]
Jessica Gutknecht Associate Professor	Soil Environmental Microbiology, Sustainable Ecosystems	[email protected]
Satoshi Ishii Associate Professor	Aquatic Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Biotechnology, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Environmental Microbiology, Soil Environmental Microbiology	[email protected]
Nic Jelinski Associate Professor	Pedology, Soil Management	[email protected]
Daniel Kaiser Associate Professor	Crops, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Diana Karwan Adjunct Assistant Professor	Forest Hydrology, Catchment Science, Critical Zone Science, Watershed Management	[email protected]
Randy Kolka Adjunct Assistant Professor	Land Management, Natural Ecosystems	[email protected]
Yuxin Miao Professor, Director of the Precision Agriculture Center	Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing, Plant Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, Agroecology	[email protected]
Dylan Millet Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Co-Director of Graduate Studies	Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate Change	[email protected]
David Mulla Professor, Larson Endowed Chair in Soil and Water Resources, Executive Committee Member at the National Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Land, Economy, Agriculture and Forestry (AI-LEAF)	Precision Agriculture, Precision Conservation, Water Quality, Watershed Management and Modeling	[email protected]
Peter Neff Assistant Professor	Ice Core Paleoclimatology, Glaciology, Climate Science, West Antarctic Climate, Science Communication	[email protected]
Paulo Pagliari Associate Professor	Crops, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Lindsay Pease Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist in Nutrient and Water Management	Contaminant Hydrology, Water Quality, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Heidi Roop Associate Professor, Extension Specialist, Director, Climate Adaptation Partnership	Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change Communication, Science-society Interactions	[email protected]
Carl Rosen Professor	Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Michael Schmitt Professor, Associate Dean of CFANS and Extension	Extension, Manure Application, Nutrient Management	[email protected]
Vasudha Sharma Assistant Professor & Extension Irrigation Specialist, Associate Director of the Precision Agriculture Center	Irrigation water management Soil water monitoring technologies Precision Irrigation Management and Technology Crop water and nitrogen uptake dynamics Crop Evapotranspiration Measurement and Modeling Water Quality	[email protected]
Jeff Strock Professor	Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Soil Physics	[email protected]
Brandy Toner Professor	Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry	[email protected]
Brent Williams Department Head, Professor	Air Quality, Climate Change, Atmosphere-Biosphere Exchange, Wildfires, Indoor Air Quality, Aerosol Science & Technology, Environmental Health, Public Health, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Air Toxins	[email protected]
Melissa Wilson Associate Professor	Manure Nutrient Management & Water Quality	[email protected]
Kari Wolf Teaching Assistant Professor	Biogeochemical processes in the soil, Hydrology, Undergraduate pedagogy	[email protected]
Ce Yang Assistant Professor	Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing, Machine Vision, Spectroscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning, Big Data in Agriculture	[email protected]
Kyungsoo Yoo Professor	Biogeochemistry, Natural Ecosystems, Pedology	[email protected]

Soil, Water, and Climate is located on the traditional and treaty land of the Dakota people, in the area known as Mnisóta Makhóčhe (the land of Minnesota).

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