Area(s) of Expertise

Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability

Publications

• 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)
• Impacts of switchgrass-loblolly pine intercropping on soil physical properties of a drained forest (2015)
• Microbial nitrogen cycling response to forest-based bioenergy production (2015)
• Nitrogen and Carbon of Switchgrass, Loblolly Pine, and Cottonwood Biofuel Production Systems in the Southeast United States (2015)
• Evaluating changes in switchgrass physiology, biomass, and light-use efficiency under artificial shade to estimate yields if intercropped with Pinus taeda L. (2014)

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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)