Austin Himes
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Quantify and improve ecosystem service benefits, including carbon storage, of planting Populus spp. trees on marginal agricultural land as a bioenergy feedstock.
- Measure and sample carbon pools at CRP sites across eight states to calibrate and improve models used by USDA for greenhouse gas accounting.
- Forest simulation and literature synthesis studies estimating the ability of wood construction and production forestry to contribute to 2030 emissions reduction
Beth Baker
Associate Extension Professor
Works related to carbon
- Nutrient cycling in agricultural landscapes
- Water conservation and management in agricultural landscapes
- Conservation practice delivery and adoption for natural resource sustainability
Boniface Fosu
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Climate Hazards and risk modeling
- Exploring the inherent uncertainties in climate variability and change
Brett Rushing
Associate Research/Extension Professor
Works related to carbon
- Integrated crop-livestock research focusing on soil health
Brian E. Mills
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Profitability of Precision Agriculture technologies
- Profitability of cover crops
Courtney Siegert
Associate Professor
Works related to carbon
- Develop an understanding of how water, carbon and nutrients move through forested ecosystems.
Donald L. Grebner
Department of Forestry Head and George L. Switzer Professor of Forestry
Works related to carbon
- Evaluation of biomass and bioenergy opportunities for landowners and investors
- Estimating carbon sequestration and landowner willingness to participate
- Evaluating alternative forest protection regimes
Drew M. Gholson
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research
Works related to carbon
- Irrigation water management research on corn, soybean, cotton and rice
- Adoption of conservation practices to improve water use effienncy
- Effects if conservation systems in the mid-south on water use, and water runoff
Eric Sparks
Associate Extension Professor
Director, Coastal Marine Extension Program
Works related to carbon
- Function and production (e.g., carbon) of coastal conservation and restoration projects at current and future sea levels
- Resilience of estuarine ecosystems in a changing climate
- Carbon storage in coastal wetlands
Heidi Renninger
Associate Professor
Works related to carbon
- Physiological productivity and carbon uptake in trees and forests
- Effects of environmental change on forest productivity
- Production and ecosystem services of short rotation woody crops for bioenergy
Jamie Dyer
Professor
Associate Director of Northern Gulf Institute
Works related to carbon
- Assessment and prediction of extreme climate events (heatwaves, drought)
- Surface-atmosphere interactions
- Precipitation estimation and prediction
Jessica Drewery
Assistant extension professor
Works related to carbon
- Assessment of precision livestock, poultry, and agriculture technologies
- Development of educational programming related to agricultural technology use and sustainability
Jing Hu
Assistant research professor
Works related to carbon
- Greenhouse gas emission and carbon sequestration in the agroecosystem
- Climate-smart agriculture practices
- Soil biogeochemistry and soil health
Josh Maples
Associate Professor
Works related to carbon
- Economics of forage production for livestock
- Agricultural policy
K. Raja Reddy
William L. Giles Distinguished Professor
Works related to carbon
- Climate change and crops (Cover Crops, row mgt-15 crops, and horticultural crops
- Crop modeling and remote sensing applications
- Climate-resilient crops
Krishna Poudel
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- National-scale tree volume, biomass, and carbon modeling
- Regional analysis of potential short-rotation woody crops sites to sequester carbon and produce biomass fuels
Mary Love Tagert
Associate Extension Professor
Works related to carbon
- Educational programming on waste reduction and recycling
- Evaluation of agricultural best management practices
- Water conservation and irrigation efficiency
SaMin Han
Assistant professor
Works related to carbon
- Resilient design (landscape architecture and urban planning)
- Nature-based infrastructure
- GIS analysis and modeling
- Spatial regression
Seong Yun
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Economic valuation of agroecosystem services in working agricultural land
- Economic sustainability analysis responding to climate change and weather extremes
Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam
Assistant Research Professor
Works related to carbon
- Understanding the influence of root-driven carbon and rhizosphere microorganisms on soil and how they regulate soil carbon sequestration.
William (Billy) Kingery
Professor
Works related to carbon
- Organic matter Decomposition/substrate utilization by soil microorganisms
- Effects of soil management on carbon substrate quality
