Research Interests
My research interests are wide ranging but with a focus on environmental management, sustainable agriculture and ecosystems, interactions between urban and peri-urban systems, and enhancing opportunities to utilize organic by-products (wastes). 聽The areas of research undertaken with my research team, including technicians and students, have revolved around:
- Agro-ecosystem-based studies of Emerging Substances of Concern (ESOC) in agroecosystems receiving alkaline treated biosolids;
- Evaluation of soil health and agronomic parameters from soil conditioners in cropped systems;
- Modeling of chemical transformations and dynamics in soils receiving organic amendments;
- Microbial and nutrient dynamics associated with biochar applications to soil;
- Composting slaughterhouse wastes, manures, MSW;
- Evaluation of a continuous flow gasification system with biomass feedstock;
- Alternative treatment approaches for wash and wastewater effluents from industrial processes;
- On-Farm management of Specified Risk Materials (SRM);
- Enhancing value opportunities by conversion of stock mortalities from salmon aquaculture into fish silage for use as agricultural amendments
- Microbial degradation of plastics.