![Austin Himes](./img/faculty/ahimes.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/b_baker.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/Fosu.jpg)
Boniface Fosu
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Climate Hazards and risk modeling
- Exploring the inherent uncertainties in climate variability and change
![Brett Rushing](./img/faculty/brett_rushing.jpg)
Brett Rushing
Associate Research/Extension Professor
Works related to carbon
- Integrated crop-livestock research focusing on soil health
![Brian E. Mills](./img/faculty/brian_mills.jpg)
Brian E. Mills
Assistant Professor
Works related to carbon
- Profitability of Precision Agriculture technologies
- Profitability of cover crops
![Courtney Siegert](./img/faculty/C_Siegert.jpg)
Courtney Siegert
Associate Professor
Works related to carbon
- Develop an understanding of how water, carbon and nutrients move through forested ecosystems.
![Donald L. Grebner](./img/faculty/dgrebner.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/gholson_drew.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/Eric Sparks.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/hrenninger.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/Jamie_Dyer.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/jDrewery.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/Hu_Jing.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/josh_maples.jpg)
Josh Maples
Associate Professor
Works related to carbon
- Economics of forage production for livestock
- Agricultural policy
![K. Raja Reddy](./img/faculty/reddy_raja.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/kpoudel.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/mlove.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/saminHan.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/seong_yun.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/shanmugam_shankar.jpg)
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](./img/faculty/kingery.jpg)
William (Billy) Kingery
Professor
Works related to carbon
- Organic matter Decomposition/substrate utilization by soil microorganisms
- Effects of soil management on carbon substrate quality
![Yun Yang](./img/faculty/yun_yang.jpg)