Agricultural and Biological Engineering faculty working in Extension.

  • Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor
  • Agricultural Safety and Health Program Lead

Areas of Expertise

  • Agricultural health and safety
  • Rural Sociology
  • Sociology of food and agriculture
  • Farm household’s social and economic needs
  • Social and agricultural policies
  • Community and economic development
  • Qualitative and quantitative research methods
  • Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • BRS Graduate Program Coordinator

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioenergy
  • Biomass Energy Systems
  • Thermochemical Conversion
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Controlled Environment Agriculture
  • Solar Energy Resource Evaluation
  • Professor of Agricultural Engineering
  • Environmental Biophysics, Animal Welfare, and Agricultural Emissions
  • Integrated Research and Extension Programs

Areas of Expertise

  • Air quality in indoor agriculture (barns, poultry houses)
  • Heating and Ventilation system design, principles and practice
  • Horse facility engineering (stables, riding arenas)
  • Farm animal welfare
  • Agricultural air emissions (gas, odor, particulates)
  • Extension Program Specialist

Areas of Expertise

  • Agricultural Safety and Health
  • Ag Safety eXtension Community of Practice
  • AgrAbility
  • Worker Protection Standard
  • National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program
  • Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Mechanization and Automation for Specialty Crops
  • Robotic Solutions for Agricultural Applications
  • Precision Agriculture
  • Electro-Hydraulic Control System
  • Professor and Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • Graduate Program Head

Areas of Expertise

  • Soil and water resources engineering
  • Impact of climate change on water resources and agro-ecosystem productivity
  • Measurement and modeling of surface energy and water vapor balance
  • Evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation
  • Irrigation science and engineering; agro-ecosystem water management
  • Nitrogen management and impacts on water and soil quality
  • Impact of tillage practices on water and energy balance and water productivity
  • Cover crop impact on soil quality (soil health) and water and energy balance
  • Plant abiotic stresses vs productivity
  • Plant phenotyping
  • Measurement and modeling of soil moisture dynamics and soil physical properties
  • Specialty cropping systems
  • Agricultural IoTs
  • Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Agricultural water management & agrohydrology
  • Irrigation science, management, & engineering
  • Sense & model water fluxes in soil-plant-atmospheric continuum
  • Evapotranspiration & its physiological and environmental controls
  • Precision water & nutrient management
  • Agricultural resource (water, radiation, nutrient) use efficiency
  • Agrometeorology; Climate sensitivity & resiliency of ag systems
  • GIS & Remote Sensing applications in agricultural & natural resources
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Safety
  • Trade Secrets
  • Packaging & Pallets
  • Sustainable Business
  • Sports Greening
  • Wood, Building Products, Paper Industries