Graduate Field Faculty: Soil & Crop Sciences

Graduate Fields are composed of faculty members with research interests related to the field of study. Most members of a given Graduate Field are faculty in the corresponding SIPS Section, but some have appointments within other SIPS Sections, other departments at Cornell, or are affiliated with USDA.

Rachel Bezner Kerr

Professor

Global Development Section

Director, Institute for African Development

Global Cornell

Rachel Bezner Kerr

(607) 255-3213
rbeznerkerr [at] cornell.edu

Agroecology

Food And Agriculture

Gender

Dan Buckley

Soil and Crop Sciences Section Head and Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Microbiology

Dan Buckley

(607) 255-1716
dhb28 [at] cornell.edu

Plant & soil microbiomes

Soil health

Soil C & N cycling

Clare Casteel

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Clare Casteel

clc269 [at] cornell.edu

Plant-virus-vector and plant-insect interactions

Molecular & chemical ecology and soil microbiomes

Healthy agroecosystems, climate resilience and organic farming

Jerome Cherney

E.V. Baker Professor of Agriculture

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Jerome Cherney

(607) 255-0945
jhc5 [at] cornell.edu

Profitable management of forage crops

Environmental sustainability

Grass bioenergy

Antonio (Toni) DiTommaso

Associate Dean and Director

Cornell AES

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Antonio (Toni) DiTommaso

(607) 254-4702
ad97 [at] cornell.edu

Weed ecology and biological weed management

Invasive plant species

Climate change impacts on weed performance and distributions

Laurie Drinkwater

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Laurie Drinkwater

(607) 255-9408
led24 [at] cornell.edu

Agroecology

Soil quality

Nutrient cycling

Katie Gold

Assistant Professor and Susan Eckert Lynch Faculty Fellow

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Cornell AgriTech

Katie Gold

(315) 787-2447
kg557 [at] cornell.edu

Plant disease detection and epidemiology

Grape pathology

Remote sensing and imaging spectroscopy

Christine Goodale

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Christine Goodale

(607) 254-4211
CLG33 [at] cornell.edu

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Anthony Hay

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Microbiology

Anthony Hay

(607) 255-3086
agh5 [at] cornell.edu

Robert Howarth

David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Robert Howarth

howarth [at] cornell.edu

Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Science

Sustainability, Environment and Conservation

Bosen Jin

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Bosen Jin

bj322 [at] cornell.edu

Analytical chemistry

Emerging organic contaminants (EOCs)

Soil health and sustainable agriculture

Magdalena Julkowska

Adjunct Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Magdalena Julkowska

(607) 279-6002
mmj55 [at] cornell.edu

Daniel Katz

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Daniel Katz

(510) 207-9928
dsk273 [at] cornell.edu

Plant ecology

Ecosystem services and disservices

Aerobiology

Quirine Ketterings

Professor of Nutrient Management in Agricultural Systems

Animal Science

Quirine Ketterings

(607) 255-3061
qmk2 [at] cornell.edu

Vipan Kumar

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Vipan Kumar

(607) 255-2212
vk364 [at] cornell.edu

Integrated weed management, including weed biology and ecology, crop-weed competition and cover crops

Herbicide-resistant weeds and herbicide-based weed control

Artificial intelligence and precision weed control

Johannes Lehmann

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Global Development Section

Johannes Lehmann

(607) 254-1236
cl273 [at] cornell.edu

Soil biogeochemistry, fertility, organic matter

Carbon cycling and sequestration

Biochar systems and nutrient cycling from wastes

Louis Longchamps

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Louis Longchamps

ll928 [at] cornell.edu

Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation

Farm data management

Precision agriculture

Yiqi Luo

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Yiqi Luo

yl2735 [at] cornell.edu

Predictive understanding of land ecosystem dynamics

Global change impacts on ecosystem structure and functions

Climate mitigation via carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies

Carmen Enid Martínez

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Carmen Enid Martínez

(607) 255-0895
cem20 [at] cornell.edu

Reactions at soil interfaces

Soil biogeochemistry at the molecular-scale

Soil carbon, nitrogen and metal cycling

Andrew McDonald

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Associate Professor

Global Development Section

Andrew McDonald

ajm9 [at] cornell.edu

Cropping systems ecology

Climate change adaptation and mitigation

Agricultural sustainability, food security, water resources, international agriculture, policy, and applied social sciences

Virginia Moore

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Virginia Moore

vm377 [at] cornell.edu

Breeding for sustainable cropping systems

Cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems

Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp

Rebecca Nelson

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Professor

Global Development Section

Rebecca Nelson

(607) 280-0062
rjn7 [at] cornell.edu

Circular bionutrient economy and enhancing wellbeing in peri-urban areas through waste valorization

Agroecology and supporting student leadership toward sustainability

Participatory research and extension

Varsha Pathare

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Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Varsha Pathare

vsp29 [at] cornell.edu

Plant-atmosphere CO2-water fluxes

Climate change

Resource-use efficiency

David Rossiter

Adjunct Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

David Rossiter

dgr2 [at] cornell.edu

Soil Survey

Geostatistics

Spatial modeling of the environment

Jonathan Russell-Anelli

Senior Lecturer / Senior Extension Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Jonathan Russell-Anelli

(607) 255-2485
jmr5 [at] cornell.edu

Urban Soils: Dynamic Soil Properties, Soil Survey & Soil Inventory

Circular Economies: Carbon, Bionutrient & Waste Cycling

Soil Healthy: Contaminants & Sustainable Food Production

Matt Ryan

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Matt Ryan

(607) 255-4964
mrr232 [at] cornell.edu

Sustainable cropping systems and agroecology

Cover crops and ecological weed management

Organic production

Diana Sinton

Adjunct Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Diana Sinton

dss326 [at] cornell.edu

Geographic information science and systems and natural resources management

Integration of in social and cultural data in GIS and humanitarian mapping projects

Geospatial literacy and spatial thinking, GIS in Higher Education

Balasaheb Sonawane

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Assistant Research Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Balasaheb Sonawane

bs894 [at] cornell.edu

Thermotolerant enzymes and plant temperature adaptations (high and low)

Leaf and whole-plant water use efficiency

Orphan crop improvement

Tammo Steenhuis

Professor

Biological and Environmental Engineering

Tammo Steenhuis

(607) 255-2489
tss1 [at] cornell.edu

Ying Sun

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Ying Sun

(607) 255-4255
ys776 [at] cornell.edu

Geospatial analysis and big data synthesis

Remote sensing

Canopy- to global-scale modeling

Alan Taylor

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Cornell AgriTech

Alan Taylor

(315) 787-2243
agt1 [at] cornell.edu

Seed science and technology

Seed quality

Coatings, treatments and biostimulants

Janice Thies

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Janice Thies

(607) 255-5099
jet25 [at] cornell.edu

Soil ecology

Soil biology quality assessment and remediation

International agriculture

Harold van Es

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Harold van Es

(607) 255-5629
hmv1 [at] cornell.edu

Soil health

Precision nitrogen management (Adapt-N)

Digital agriculture

Olena Vatamaniuk

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Biology Section

Olena Vatamaniuk

(607) 255-8049
okv2 [at] cornell.edu

Functional genomics of mineral nutrient homeostasis

Toxic metal detoxification and phytoremediation

Biofortification

Peter Woodbury

Senior Research Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Peter Woodbury

(607) 255-1448
pbw1 [at] cornell.edu

Agricultural and forest ecosystems

Greenhouse gas emissions

Geospatial modeling, land use and environmental quality

Dominic Woolf

Senior Research Associate

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Dominic Woolf

dw433 [at] cornell.edu

Soil carbon sequestration and climate-smart agriculture

Sustainable landscape management, agroforestry reforestration and restoration of degraded land

Biochar

Yun Yang

Assistant Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Yun Yang

yy2356 [at] cornell.edu

Remote sensing retrieved ET modeling

Operational ET data production through cloud computing

Land use impacts on sustainable water use