Harold van Es

My research focuses on soil health, soil and water management, precision nitrogen management and digiral agriculture.

Selected Publications

Google Scholar profile and publications.

• Liptzin. D.,…. H.M. van Es, …2023.  An evaluation of nitrogen indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2023: 1–17.
• Teixeira Santana, M.L., F. Franco dos Santos, K. Maciel de Carvalho, D Souza Peixoto, A. Uezu; J. Cesar Avanzi, M.  Evandro Serafim, M.R. Nunes, H.M. van Es, N. Curi; B. Montoani Silva.  Land use and intrinsic soil properties affect soil functions in the Cantareira Water Supply System, Brazil. Sci of Total Environm. (in press).
• van Es, H. 2023.  The Power of Regeneration.  Commodities at the heart of change.  March 23:21  AGEFI-Finanz und Wirtschaft.  Special Edition.  https://online.pubhtml5.com/qtfn/lalk/#p=5.
• Amsili, J., H. van Es,  D. Aller, and R. Schindelbeck. 2023. Empirically-based production environment soil health goals.  Geoderma Regional. 
• Jiangzhou Zhang, Yizan Li, Jiyu Jia, Wenqing Liao, Joseph P. Amsili, Rebecca L. Schneider, Harold M. van Es, Ying Li ,Junling Zhang. 2023. Applicability of soil health assessment on wheat-maize cropping systems in smallholder farmlands.  Agric., Ecosystems and Envir. 353 108558
• Wilhelm, R.C., H.M. van Es, and D.H. Buckley. 2023.  Ecological insights into soil health according to the genomic traits and environment-wide associations of bacteria in agricultural soils.  ISME Communications 3: 1.
• Graham, C.J., H.M. van Es, and D. Sanyal. 2022. Soil Health Changes from Grassland to Row Crop Conversion in the Northern Great Plain. Crops& Soils Magazine Sept-Oct 2022. DOI: 10.1002/crso.20219.
• Bagnall, D.K., …, H.M. van Es, … 2022. Selecting Soil Hydraulic Properties as Indicators of Soil Health: Measurement Response to Management and Site Characteristics. Soil Science Society of America Journal 86: 1206-1226.
• Rubio, V., J. Sawchick, and H. van Es. 2022.  Mixed soil health benefits from conservation practices under perennial and annual cropping.  Soil Security 9: 100074.
• Kinoshita, R. , M. Tani, S. Sherpa,  A. Ghahramani, and H.M. van Es. 2022. Soil Sensing and Machine Learning Reveal Factors Affecting Maize Yield in the Mid-Atlantic USA.  Agron. J. AJ-2022-07-0593-A.R1.
• Liptzin. D.,…. H.M. van Es, …2022.  An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments.  Soil Biol & Biochem. 172:108708.
• He, Xiao, H.M. van Es, Y.Q Chen, B. Wang, Y.X. Zhao, and P. Sui. 2022.  Crop rotational diversity influences wheat-maize production through soil legacy effects in the North China Plain.  Int. J. Plant Production 16:415-427.
• Rekik, F., and H. van Es. 2022.  Soil Health-Human Health Nexus: Mineral Thresholds, Interlinkages and Rice System in Jharkhand, India.  Advances in Agronomy 172:67-118.
• He Xiao, H.M. van Es, J.P. Amsili, Qianqian Shi, Jingbo Sun, Yuanquan Chen, Peng Sui. 2022. Lowering soil greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing yields by increasing crop rotation diversity in the North China Plain.  Field Crops Res. 276:108366.
• Wilhelm, R.C., H.M. van Es, and D.H. Buckley. 2022.  Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised learning.  Soil Biology&Biochemistry 164: 108472
• van Es, H.M., R. Marjerison, and M. Barik. 2022. Adapt—N.  In: Cammarano, D., Kempenaar, C., and F. van Evert (Eds.) Modeling for precision agriculture.  Springer Book Series ISSN: 2511-2260.
• Graham, C.J., and H.M. van Es. 2021. Soil health changes from grassland to row crops conversion on Natric Aridisols in South Dakota, USA.  Geoderma Regional 26:e00425.

Presentations and Activities

• Spatially-balanced designs on autocorrelated fields. Joint Statistical Meetings. 2004.