Environmental Sciences
Dr. William Lindemann
Title: Professor
Research area: Ecology and Conservation, Soil
Office location: N324 Skeen Hall
Email Address: wlindema@nmsu.edu
Office Phone: (575) 646-1907
Office Fax: (575) 646-6041
Education:
- Ph.D.: Soil Microbiology/Fertility, University of Minnesota.
- M.S.: Soil Microbiology/Biochemistry, University of Minnesota.
- B.S.: Plant Industries, Southern Illinois University.
EXPERIENCE:
1970-1972, US Army
1972-1974 Research Assistant, University of Minnesota
1974-1975 Research and Production Assistant, Research Seeds, Inc., St. Joseph, MO.
1975-1977 Research Assistant, University of Minnesota
1978-1979 Visiting Assistant Professor, NMSU
1980-1985 Assistant Professor, NMSU
1985-1990 Associate Professor, NMSU
1991-Present Professor, NMSU
As a twelve month employee at NMSU, I hold a joint teaching/research appointment that is funded by Instruction and General Funds and the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:
ARCPACS Certified Professional Soil Scientist
ARCPACS Certified Professional Agronomist
DEPARTMENT SERVICE:
Service includes Plant and Environmental Sciences Academic Head Advisory Committee, Curriculum Committee, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Recruitment Committee, and many other committees and subcommittees in the department, including chair of all of them at one time. I have been the mentor of 4 junior faculty as they went through the Promotion and Tenure process. I was awarded the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Service Award. I have recruited extensively for the Environmental Sciences degree programs via high school presentations.
COLLEGE SERVICE:
Service to College of Agriculture and Home Economics includes the Tenure and Promotion Committee, Curriculum Committee, Peer Parity Committee, Long Range Planning Committee, Budge Reduction Committee, and many other committees and subcommittees in the college including search committees for the Dean, Associate Deans, Department Heads, and off campus superintendents and faculty for research and extension positions.
Dr. H. Curtis Monger
Title: Professor of Pedology and Environmental Science
Research area: Ecology and Conservation, Livestock, Soil
Office location: N328 Skeen
Email Address: cmonger@nmsu.edu
Office Phone: (575) 646-1910
Office Fax: (575) 646-6041
Education:
- Ph.D.: Agronomy (Soil Genesis and Classification), New Mexico State University.(1990)
- M.S.: Geology, University of Tennessee.(1986)
- B.S.: Plant and Soil Science, University of Tennessee.(1981)
Professional Appointments:
- 2004 until Present: Professor of Pedology and Environmental Science, Dept. of Plant & Environmental Sci.
- 1998-2004: Associate Professor of Pedology, Dept. of Agronomy & Horticulture
- 1992-1998: Assistant Professor of Pedology, Dept. of Agronomy & Horticulture
- 1990-1992: Project Leader, Soil-Geomorphology Project, Fort Bliss, Texas.
- 1981-1982: Soil Scientists, USDA-Soil Conservation Service, Chester Co, Tenn.
Research Interests: Coupled geomorphic-biotic change; Links between desert soils and the global carbon cycle; Paleoclimate; Geoarchaology My research focuses on the terrestrial responses to climate changes in the Chihuahuan Desert as recorded in soils and their isotopic signatures. Many desert soils in southern New Mexico, for example, contain a continuous accumulation of soil carbonate and thus contain avaluable isotopic record of climatic fluctuation during the recent geologic past. Much of my research is of soil strata and landscape evolution on the Fort Bliss Military Reservation in southern New Mexico and western Texas. This study is being conducted for archaeologists in the Environmental Management Office at Fort Bliss who are in charge of locating and preserving archaeology sites. Similar global change studies are being conducted by myself and graduate students at the Jornada LTER site and the Big Bend National Park.
I am responsible for teaching Soils and Land Use, Soil Morphology and Classification, and Soil Genesis, and, on occasion, Introductory Soils. I also coach the soil judging team. In teaching I emphasize that soils are the result of large-scale geologic processes and try to get students to think of soils as seen from aerial photographs and satellite imagery, where, for example, the flood plain soils of the Rio Grande can be distinguished form adjacent soils. In this way, one can understand how soil types vary among physiographic regions and how land use can impact regions differently.
Professional Activities and Honors (last 6 years)
Current Associate Editor, Arid Land Research and Management 2003 National Science Foundation, Geology and Paleontology Panel 2000-2002 National Cooperative Soil Survey Research Needs Committee Co-Chair 2002 Distinguished Research Award, College of Agriculture & Home Economics, NMSU 2000 Roush Award for Teaching Excellence, New Mexico State University 1999 Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Agriculture & Home Economics, NMSU
Research Support
$4,920,000 from National Science Foundation to D.P. Peters, B. Bestelmeyer, K.M. Havstad, J.E. Herrick, H.C. Monger for Jornada Basin LTER Program (2006-2012)
$12,600 from NSF-EPSCoR/Los Alamos National Lab to M.H. Ebinger and H.C. Monger to study Soil Carbon Measurements with Laser Technology.(2003).
$1,089 from T&E to M. Duniway, J.E. Herrick, and H.C. Monger for to study "Grassland recovery and role of soil-vegetation feedbacks" (2002-2003).
$623,600 from EPA to H.C. Monger, J.T. Harrington, D.P. Peters, and J.E. Herrick to support the project "Carbon Sequestration Potential of Southwestern Rangelands" (2001 to 2003).
$142,500 from USDA-NRI to H.C. Monger and J.E. Herrick to study "CO2 emissions from the dissolution of soil carbonate as a contributor to greenhouse gases" (2000-2003).
$4,300,000 from National Science Foundation to L.F. Huenneke, K.M. Havstad, H.C. Monger and D.P. Peters for Jornada LTER Program (2000-2006)
$75,000 from International Arid Lands Consortium to H.C. Monger and S.A. Khresat to study "Atmospheric CO2 sequestration by soil CaCO3 in Jordan and New Mexico" (1999-2002).
$2,500 from T&E to G.A. Michaud and H.C. Monger for project entitled "Identifying and modeling erosion on White Sands Missile Rrange using GIS" (1999-2000).
$75,000 from International Arid Lands Consortium to H.C. Monger and G.J. Kidron to study "Microbiotic Crusts: Their nature and establishment in Israel and New Mexico" (1997-1999).
$79,865 from USDA-NRI to H.C. Monger to study "Holocene grassland dynamics based on soil carbonate C-13 values, Chihuahuan Desert" (1996-1998).
$79,865 from USDA-NRI to H.C. Monger to study "Holocene grassland dynamics based on soil carbonate C-13 values, Chihuahuan Desert" (1996 to 1998).
$10,000 from USDA-NRCS to H.C. Monger to study "Global change between the southern High Plains and Chihuahuan Desert" (1996).
$60,000 from USDA-NRCS to H.C. Monger and J.B. Gleason to make videos on Desert Geomorphology (1995-1998).
$3,780,000 from National Science Foundation to W.H. Schlesinger, A. Abrahams, D. Gillette, V. Gutschick, K. Havstad, P. Herman, L. Huenneke, D. Lightfoot, C. Monger, J. Reynolds, R. Virginia for Jornada LTER Program (1994 to 2000).
$4,200 from Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office to H.C. Monger to study "Calcite-silica deposits at Yucca Mountain, Nevada" (1994).
$4,745 from US Bureau of Reclamation to H.C. Monger to study "Geomorphic overview of the Mesilla and El Paso Valleys" (1994).
$79,340 from US Department of Defense to H.C. Monger to study "Geomorphology of Fort Bliss, Texas" (1993-1994).
$50,000 from US Geological Survey to J. Keaton, J. Barnes, and H.C. Monger to study "Paleoseismic evaluation of the East Franklin Mountains Fault Zone, El Paso, Texas" (1994-1995).
$36,688 from New Mexico Department of Agriculture to B. Creel, T. Sammis, Z. Samani, and H.C. Monger to study "Assessing vulnerability of groundwater aquifers in New Mexico to contamination from pesticide" (1994 to 1995).
$174,000 from US Department of Defense to H.C. Monger to study "Soil-Geomorphology-Paleoclimate of Fort Bliss, Texas" (1990-1992).
Thesis Advisors
Richard Arnseth, Geology, University of Tennessee. Thesis Title: "Geochemical and mineralogical properties of Copper Ridge and Chepultepec regolith at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reservation, West Chestnut Ridge Site." LeRoy Daugherty, Pedology, New Mexico State Univ. Thesis Tiltle: "Mineralogical transformation in a New Mexico Aridisol: pedogenic palygorskite, mineral dissolution, and microbial-related calcite."
Dr. Manoj Shukla
Title:Associate Professor
Research area: Environmental Soil Physics
Office location: N320 Skeen
Email Address: shuklamk@nmsu.edu
Office Phone: (575) 646-2324
Office Fax: (575) 646-6041
Education:
- Ph.D.: Soil Physics, University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, Austria (1998)
- M-Tech: Soil and Water Engineering, J N. Agricultural University, India (1986)
- B.-Tech: Agriculture Engineering, J N. Agricultural University, India (1981)
Professional Appointments:
- 2009 - Present: Associate Professor of Environment Soil Physics, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, NMSU, NM
- 2005 - Present: Assistant Professor of Environment Soil Physics, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, NMSU, NM
- 2001 - 2005: Research Scientist, School of Natural Resources, the Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Oh
- 2000 - 2001: Postdoctoral Research Associate, NRES, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL
- 1999 - 2000: Research Scientist, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 1995 - 1999: Research Associate/Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, Austria
Services to Department
Chair of Awards Committee, Member of Curriculum and Graduate Studies committee of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, and member of regional coordination committee on trickle irrigation
Research Interests:
My major research focus is on the assessment of physical, chemical and thermal properties of soil, and chemical fate and transport in the soil. Special areas of research interest are the role of spatial and temporal heterogeneity of soil properties on plot and field-scale under different ecosystems, land use and management systems over a broad range of scales (i.e., aggregate to watershed), migration of solutes through soil profile, soil quality indicators, model calibration, and carbon sequestration in soils.
Teaching Responsibilities
I am responsible for teaching Environmental Soil Physics (SOILS 477), Advanced Soil Physics (SOILS 652), Contaminant Transport Modeling (SOIL 655, and on occasion Introductory Soils.
Publications:
Text-book: Principles of Soil Physics, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, NY
Referred Journal Articles (Total=41):
Sammis T., M.K. Shukla, J. Mexal, P. Bosland and L.A. Daugherty. 2009. Case study on Improving Chile Industry of New Mexico through Industry, Agriculture Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Services Collaboration. Journal of Extension. 47:1-7.
*Ochoa C.G., M.K. Shukla and R. Lal. 2009. Macroaggregate-associated physical and chemical properties of a no-tillage chronosequence in a Miamian soil. Canadian journal of Soil Research Can. J.Soil Sci. 89:319-329.
*Babcock,M., M.K. Shukla, G. Picchioni, J. Mexal and D. Daniel. 2008. Chemical and physical properties of Chihuahuan desert soils irrigated with industrial effluent. J. Arid land Research and Management. 23:7-66.
Shukla M.K., R. Lal, M. Ebinger and C. Meyer. 2008. Physical and chemical properties of soils under Pinon-Juniper-Oak canopies in a semiarid ecosystem in New Mexico - Reply to comments. J. Arid Environ. 66:673-685.
*Williams D.S., M.K. Shukla and J. Ross. 2008. Particulate matter emitted by a vehicle running on unpaved road. Atmospheric Environment. 42:3899-3905.
Research Funding(Total>1 Million)
- Carbon sequestration in reclaimed mined soils of Ohio (Lal and Shukla); Department of Energy- National Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL); Oct 1, 2003-Sept 30, 2006 ($756,000)
- Mapping of airborne particulate matter under two land uses: agriculture and unpaved Road (Shukla, Miller, Arimoto, Margez); Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP); April 2006-October 2007 ($71,000)
- Irrigation water management for monitoring and modelling on farm soil salinity (Shukla); Rio Grande basin Initiative; June 2006- September 2009 ($ 63,000)
- Interactions of vadose zone properties at multiple scales under organic farming in Arid land soils (Shukla) USDA- HATCH; January 2006- December 2010 ($50,000)
- Advanced sensing and control technologies to optimize resource management in specialty crops. 2008 USDA-CSREES (NMSU, TAMU, UCDAVIC)~2M; $633K Shukla, Mexal.
- Land application of industrial effluent on a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem: Impact on soil physics and hydraulic properties Shukla, Mexal; WRII- USGS for their Water Institute Resources Program, $30,000 (2009).
Student Advising:
Students Graduated with a master degree (five). Currently serves as a major advisor for four PhD students in the PES department.
Professional Societies and Awards
- Recipient of Patricia Christmore Faculty Teaching Award (2009)
- Recipient of North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) and ACES College Teaching Award (2009)
- Recipient of certificate of appreciation from NM Alliance for Minority Participation (2009).
- Nominated to College Teaching Award (2008) Member Editorial Board Soil Science Society America Journal (present).
- Associate editor for Soil Science Society America Journal (S-6 Div.)(present).
- Nominated to Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture, NMSU Chapter (2005)
- Received certificate of appreciation for mentoring program at OSU (2005).
- Reviewer for Soil Science Society of America Journal, Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vadose Zone hydrology Journal, Journal Range Management.
- Professional Mentor-Office of Minority Affairs, The Ohio State University.
- Invited Speaker Soil and Water Resource Field Night for faermers, Piketon, The Ohio State University (2003).
- Received North South Dialogue fellowship in Austria (1995)
- Received university merit scholarship during M- Tech degree program (1987-88)
- Received certificate of honour in M-Tech (1989)
Membership of Societies
- Soil Science Society of America
- American geophysical Union
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- American Association for Advancement of Science
- Indian Association of Hydrologists
Language Proficiency:
English: Read, write and speak excellent
German: Read excellent, write and speak good
Dr. April Ulery
Title:Associate Professor
Research area: Soil Chemistry, Soil Mineralogy, phytoremediation, soil quality
Office location: N340 Skeen Hall
Email Address: aulery@nmsu.edu
Office Phone: (575) 646-2219
Office Fax: (575) 646-6041
Education:
- B.S. in Geology, 1980, University of Redlands, Redlands, California
- M.S. in Soil Science, University of California, Riverside, California
- Ph.D. in Soil Science, University of California, Riverside, California
Research Interests:
Research in the areas of salinity, soil mineralogy, and environmental soil chemistry: Salinity-nutrient interactions in chile pepper plants. Decontamination of metal- and hydrocarbon-impacted soil using various amendments. Soil quality of irrigated agricultural regions. Dairy wastewater use and nutrient cycling in land application areas.
Dr. Adrian Unc
Title:Assistant Professor
Research area:Environmental quality, water, contaminant microbiology
Office location: N336 Skeen Hall
Email address: aunc@nmsu.edu
Office phone: (575) 646-1037
Office fax: (575) 646-6041
Education:
- Ph.D., Soil Science (contaminant microbiology), University of Guelph, Canada
- M.Sc. Soil Science University of Guelph, Canada
- B.Sc. Agronomy/Soil Science, Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences, Romania
Research Interests /Current Research Emphasis:
Impact of human activities on environmental quality and microbiology of soil and water; Assessment/development of environmental standards and practices; waste treatment and disposal; nutrient management practices and impacts; the Rural/Urban environmental interface
Professional Experience:
- 2007 - present, Assistant Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University (NMSU)
- 2003-2007, Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology, University of Ottawa
- 2006, Lecturer - Land and Water Stewardship, University of Guelph - Kemptville Campus
- 2003-2006, Special Graduate Faculty member, University of Guelph
- 2002-2003, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology, University of Ottawa, Canada
- 2002, Lecturer - Soil and Water Conservation and Remediation, University of Guelph
- 1999-2002, Teaching Assistant, University of Guelph, Departments of Land Resource Science and Crop Sciences (Agrifood Systems - spring 2002, Soil and Water Conservation and Remediation - summer and fall 1999, 2000 & 2001, Soil Biology - spring 2001, Introductory Soil Science -spring 2000)
- 1996-2002, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Guelph
- 1990-1991, Soil Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Office for Soil Science and Agrochemical Studies, Timisoara, Romania