Tammo Steenhuis

Prof. Tammo Steenhuis received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1978’ He is a Professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bahir Dar in Ethiopia, working with Ph.D. graduate students. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In the past, together with graduate students, his research ranged from soil colloid movement to basin-wide movement of water and constituents. Recently, Prof Steenhuis has been primarily interested in landscape processes in the northeastern US, Ethiopia and China. He cooperates on research in sustainable agricultural practices, self-organization distributed hydrological processes, pesticide movement and gully formation and prevention.