News Release

MADISON, WI, AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) will recognize the following individuals at the 2011 Awards Ceremony during their Annual Meeting on Oct. 16-19 in San Antonio, TX, www.acsmeetings.org.

Members of the Society nominate worthy colleagues based on their professional achievements and meritorious service. Only 0.3% of the Society’s active and emeritus members may be elected Fellow. The 2011 class of SSSA Fellows are:

• Nanthi Bolan – University of South Australia. Nanthi Bolan is a chair in environmental science in the Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation at the University of South Australia. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Western Australia. His teaching and research activities focus mainly on nutrient dynamics and remediation of environment. Dr Bolan served as an associate editor of Journal of Environmental Quality and Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.

• Markus Flury – Washington State University. Markus Flury is a professor of soil physics and Vadose Zone hydrology in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University. He received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. His program focuses on flow and transport of contaminants, especially movement of colloids in unsaturated porous media. Dr. Flury served as an associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Quality, the Vadose Zone Journal, and Water Resources Research.

• Timothy R. Green – Colorado State University. Timothy R. Green is a research hydrologist with the USDA-ARS and faculty affiliate at Colorado State University. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Washington, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. Dr. Green’s research addresses spatial measurement and scaling of soil water, soil hydraulic properties and topography, numerical simulation of water movement in variable terrain, and agro-hydrologic assessment of projected climate change. He has served as associate editor of the Vadose Zone Journal and new associate editor of the Soil Science Society of America Journal.

• Stephen C. Hart – University of California-Merced. Stephen C. Hart is a professor of ecology in the School of Natural Sciences and a Faculty Associate in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California-Merced. Dr. Hart received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California-Berkeley, and his M.S. at Duke University. His research program focuses on plant-soil interactions in wildland soils. Hart served as an associate editor and currently serves as a technical editor for Soil Science Society of America Journal, and was a S-7 division chair.

• Raj Khosla – Colorado State University. Rajiv “Raj” Khosla is Colorado State University Monfort Professor of Precision Agriculture, and a Visiting Professor in China and Saudi Arabia. In June, he was appointed by NASA to the U.S. “Presidential Advisory Board on Positioning, Navigation and Timing”. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Dr. Khosla’s research focus has been on “Management of in-field soil and crop spatial variability using innovative technologies for precision nutrient management. He is the current President of International Society of Precision Agriculture.

• Peter Kleinman – USDA-ARS. Peter Kleinman is a soil scientist with USDA-ARS’s Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit. His research addresses the management of phosphorus to protect water quality. He is adjunct associate professor at Penn State, and advises students at U.S. and international universities. He received his degrees from Cornell University. Dr. Kleinman is associate editor for several journals, and is active in the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, SERA-17 and Soil and Water Conservation Society.

• William Koskinen – USDA-Agricultural Research Service. William Koskinen is a research soil scientist with UDSA-Agricultural Research Service, St. Paul, MN and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from San Diego State University, and his Ph.D. degree from Washington State University. Dr. Koskinen’s research involves determination and quantification of the mechanisms and factors controlling the bioavailability, degradation, and movement of pesticides and their metabolites in soil. He has also been active in the American Chemical Society and IUPAC.

• John Kovar – USDA-ARS. John Kovar is a research soil scientist with the USDA-ARS at the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. His research focuses on nutrient management and soil-plant relationships. Dr. Kovar served as an associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Quality, contributing editor of the Fluid Journal, and has been active in ASA-CSSA-SSSA and the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

• Baoguo Li – China Agricultural University. Baoguo Li is a distinguished professor at Soil and Water Science Department, College of Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University. He also serves as Associate Dean of College. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Beijing Agricultural University. His program focuses mainly on identifying and quantifying soil and water processes using simulation models and information technologies. Dr. Li served as an associate editor for Agronomy Journal, and has been active in ASA and SSSA, and Chinese Society of Soil Science.

• Philip Moore – USDA-ARS. Philip Moore is a soil scientist for USDA/ARS at Fayetteville, AR.  He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. degree from Louisiana State University.  His program focuses mainly on manure management to improve air, soil and water quality.  Dr. Moore is best known for his work with the Phosphorus Index and for developing new best management practices to reduce non-point source phosphorus runoff and air pollution, such as treating manure with aluminum sulfate (alum).

• Kirk Scheckel - USEPA. Kirk Scheckel is a research soil scientist in the National Risk Management Research Laboratory of the USEPA. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Ohio State University. Dr. Scheckel received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His research focuses on element speciation in soils, sediments, and water to elucidate reaction mechanisms that influence fate in the natural environment. He served as associate editor for JEQ and Chair of S-11. He is active in SSSA, ASA, and American Chemical Society.

• Karamat Sistani – USDA-ARS. Karamat Sistani is a research leader and soil scientist in the USDA-ARS at Animal Waste Management Research Laboratory, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He received his B.S. degree from Iran, M.S. from Texas A&M University (Kingsville), and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. His leadership and research focuses mainly on animal waste management and environmental quality areas. Dr. Sistani served as an associate editor of Agronomy Journal and Communication in Soil Science and Plant Analysis journal. He has been active in ASA and SSSA for many years.

• Brian Wienhold – USDA-ARS. Brian Wienhold is research leader and soil scientist with USDA-ARS Agroecosystems Management Research Unit in Lincoln, NE. He received his B.A from Minnesota State University – Moorhead, his M.S. from North Dakota State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research focuses on management effects on soil properties and functions and developing management practices for spatially variable landscapes. Dr. Wienhold serves as S-6 technical editor for Soil Science Society of America Journal and is a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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