Area(s) of Expertise

Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability

Publications

• Mortality patterns following a hickory decline event - Is density reduction key to maintaining bitternut hickory? (2021)
• Catalyzing rapid discovery of gold-precipitating bacterial lineages with university students (2020)
• Human Dimensions: Raising Black Excellence by Elevating Black Ecologists Through Collaboration, Celebration, and Promotion (2020)
• Impacts on soil nitrogen availability of converting managed pine plantation into switchgrass monoculture for bioenergy (2019)
• Effects of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on shallow groundwater quality of a drained forest soil (2018)
• Impacts of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on soil nitrogen cycling (2018)
• Soil and Aggregate-Associated Carbon in a Young Loblolly Pine Plantation (2017)
• Soil CO2 efflux and root productivity in a switchgrass and loblolly pine intercropping system (2016)
• Biofuel intercropping effects on soil carbon and microbial activity (2015)
• Explaining the apparent resiliency of loblolly pine plantation to organic matter removal (2015)

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Education

Doctorate, Philosophy in Forestry, North Carolina State University (2004)
Master, Forestry, Duke University (2000)
Bachelor of Science, CAENS, Tuskegee University (1999)