I am a PhD candidate in Crop and Soil Science at Cornell University, studying soil microbial ecology. This site outlines my research and teaching experience. Please feel free to see what I have been up to and what I have done. For all of the details, see my CV.

My Professional Goal

To work toward the reality of an environmentally sound and rational agriculture which supports farmers, fosters rural communities and feeds people for generations to come.

Recent work

PhD work

I am writing my PhD dissertation and anticipate being finished by July 2008.

I just finished conducting a greenhouse experiment at UC Davis on C4 grasses. [More]

For the past three years, I have been working with the Land Institute on a project comparing soil biological communities in tallgrass prairies and agricultural sites. [More]

Manuscript accepted on the statistical analysis of T-RFLP data. [More]

Master's work

As a Fulbright Scholar, I worked in Nepal with a management practice, soil solarization, intended to help smallholder farmers. [More]

Published results in Soil Biology and Biochemistry [PDF]

Any questions? Please feel free to email me.