Crop & Soil Sciences: Academic Programs: Graduate

2009 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in
2401 Miller Plant Sciences, 3:35 p.m.

• February 4, 2009
  "Issues in Assessing the Fate of Manufactured Nanomaterials in Porous Media"
  by Nicholas T. Loux, Research Chemist
  U.S. EPA/ORD/NERL/ERD
  Athens, GA
• February 11, 2009
  "Ameliorating soil with paper pulp residues to improve soil chemical and physical properties"
  by Damianos Damianidis
  Crop & Soil Sciences
  
• February 18, 2009
  "Sediment Fingerprinting in the Southern Piedmont"
  by Rajith Mukundan, PhD candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• February 25, 2009
  "Decomposition and nutrient cycling of cover crops in conventional and strip-till peanuts"
  by Dylan Wann, M.S. candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• March 18, 2009
  • "Fate and Transport of Hormones in soils"
    by Rashmi Singh, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences
  • "Pollution with Hormones Derived from Land Application of Poultry Waste at the Watershed Level"
    by (Lisa) Qi Luo, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences
• March 25, 2009
  "Anoxia-Induced Release of Colloid-bound Phosporus: The role of nanaparticles, iron reduction & associated pH shifts"
  by Russell Henderson, M.S. candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• April 1, 2009
  "Sorption Transport of Estrogenic Hormones in Soil"
  by Monalisa Bera, M.S. candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• April 8, 2009
  "Effect of Biochar Feedstock and Application Rate on Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization"
  by Keith Harris, M.S. candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• April 15, 2009
  "Microbiological Effects of Amending Soil with Peanut Hull-Derived Biochar"
  by Carrie Neely, M.S. candidate
  Crop & Soil Sciences
• April 22, 2009
  • "Evaluation of Napiergrass (Pennisetum Purpureum Schum.) for New Crop and Control Scenarios"
    by Trey Cutts, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences
  • "Optimizing Seeding Rate, Row Spacing, and Tillage to Grow Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)"
    by Jeremy Connell, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences
• April 29, 2009
  • "Impact of Nocturnal Low-level Jets on the Terrestrial CO2 Fluxes"
    by Henrique Duarte, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences
  • "Intermittent Turbulence in the Nighttime Boundary Layer as a Result of Gravity Wave Propagation"
    By David Durden, M.S. candidate
    Crop & Soil Sciences