Our research focuses on the intersection of agriculture, the environment, and the new life sciences with the goal of supporting the sustainable and productive management of agroecosystems. We have a diverse faculty whose research programs tackle questions that vary in scale from the molecular to the landscape. The research programs of the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences can be broadly classified into the three major program areas of Crop Science, Soil Science, and Environmental Information Science. Click here to learn more about these themes.
You can learn about individual faculty programs by following the links in this page or by seeing a list of our faculty . To learn more about the impacts of our research activities you can go to the CALS Impact Portal or browse the information provided on our faculty by the Vivo virtual life sciences library.
Profiles of the faculty in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences can be accessed by clicking on their names in the listing below. Click here to access an alphabetical listing of the faculty.
Crop Science
- Agronomy (Cherney, Cox)
- Crop Physiology and Molecular Biology (Kochian, Obendorf, Setter, Vatamaniuk)
- Cropping Systems (Cox, Duxbury)
- Forage Science (Cherney, Fick)
- Seed Science (Obendorf)
- Weed Science (DiTommaso, Hahn)
Environmental Information Science
- Environmental Modeling & Impact Assessment (DeGloria, Riha, van Es)
- Resource Inventory & Analysis (DeGloria)
- Space-Time Statistics (van Es)
Soil Science
- Soil Biology (Thies)
- Soil Chemistry (Duxbury, McBride)
- Soil Fertility/Plant Nutrition (Duxbury, Ketterings, Kochian, Lehmann, Welch)
- Soil Genesis/Classification/Pedology
- Soil Microbial Genomics (Buckley)
- Soil Physics/Environmental Biophysics (Riha, van Es)
Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
- Alexander, Martin
- Bouldin, David R.
- Cline, Marlin G.
- Grunes, David L.
- Kennedy, W. Keith
- Linscott, Dean L.
- Miller, Robert D.
- Pardee, William D.
- Reid, W. Shaw
- Scott, Thomas W.
- Seaney, Robert R.
- Van Wambeke, Armand R.
- Wright, Madison J.