Harold van Es

Harold van Es's research focuses on soil health, soil and water management, precision nitrogen management and digiral agriculture.

Selected Publications

Google Scholar profile and publications.

• Nunes MR, Veum KS, Parker PA, Holan S, Karlen DL, Amsili JP, van Es HM, Wills SA, Seybold CA, Moorman TB. 2021. The soil health assessment protocol and evaluation applied to soil organic C. Soil Science Society of America Journal (accepted).
• Schneider, R.L., S. Morreale, Z. Li, E. Menzies Pluer, K. Kurtz, X. Ni, C.lI and H. van Es. 2020. Restoring soil health to reduce irrigation demand and buffer the impacts of drought.  Frontiers in Agric. Sci and Engin.  DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2020348.
• Nunes, M.R.; van Es, H.M.; Veum, K.S.; Amsili, J.P.; Karlen, D.L. 2020. Anthropogenic and Inherent Effects on Soil Organic Carbon across the U.S. Sustainability 12, 5695. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145695
• Krishnan, K., R. Schindelbeck, K.S.M. Kurtz, and H. van Es. 2020. Soil health assessment.  In: A. Rakshit et al., (eds.) Soil analysis: Recent trends and applications.  Springer Nature Singapore Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2039-6-1.
• Rekik, F., H van Es, J.N. Hernandez-Aguilera, and M.I. Gómez.  2020.  Understanding soil health and associated farmers' perceptions in Colombian coffee systems.  J. Soil and Water Conservation. 75:499-504.
• van Es, H.M., A. Ristow, M. Nunes, R. Schindelbeck, S. Sela, and M. Davis.  2020. Nitrate Leaching Decreases with Adaptive-Dynamic Nitrogen Management and Reduced Tillage.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am J. 2020;84:220–231.DOI: 10.1002/saj2.20031.
• Rekik, F., H. M. van Es, J.N. Hernandez-Aguilera, M.I. Gómez. 2019. Linking coffee cup quality to soil:  Can soil health increase coffee quality.  Soil Science 184:25–33.
• Sela, S., P.B. Woodbury, R. Marjerison, and H.M. van Es.  2019. Towards applying N balance as a sustainability indicator for the US cornbelt: realistic achievable targets, spatio-temporal variability and policy implications. Environm. Res. Letters 14: 064015.
• Frost, P.S.D., H.M. van Es, D.G. Rossiter, P. Hobbs, and P.L. Pingali.  2019. Soil health characterization of agricultural catchments in Jharkhand, India.  Applied Soil Ecology 138:171-180.
• van Es, H.M., and D. Karlen. 2019. Soil health indicators discern agronomic management effects and correlate with yield in Long-term experiments.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am J. 83:721–732.
• Krounbi, L., A. Enders, H.M. van Es, D. Woolf, B. van Herzen, and J. Lehmann.  2019. Biological and thermochemical conversion of human solid waste to soil amendments.  Waste Management 89:366–378.
• Nunes, M., H. van Es, E. Pauletto, J.E. Denardin, and L.E. Suzuki. 2019.  Dynamic changes in compressive properties and crop response after chisel tillage in a highly weathered soil.  Soil&Tillage Res. 186:183-190.
• Sela,S., H.M. van Es, B.N. Moebius-Clune, S. R. Marjerison, and G. Kneubuhler.  2018.  Dynamic model-based recommendations increase the precision and sustainability of N fertilization in midwestern US maize production. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 153:256-265.
• Sela. S. and H.M. van Es. 2018.  Dynamic tools unify fragmented 4Rs into an integrative nitrogen management approach.  J Soil & Water Conserv. 73:107A-112A.
• McLellan, E.L., Kenneth G. Cassman, Peter B. Woodbury, Shai Sela, Alison J. Eagle, Christina Tonitto, Rebecca D. Marjerison, and Harold M. van Es.  2018. The Nitrogen Balancing Act: Tracking the Environmental Performance of Food Supply Chains.  BioScience  68(3):194-203.

Presentations and Activities

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