Back row L to R: Mike Castellano, Elaine Jordan, Fernanda Chizzotti, Carolina Cordova, Hanna Poffenbarger, Aaron Sassman. Front row L to R: Javed Iqbal, Jordan Kersey, Navreet Mahal.
Mike Castellano (PhD, Penn State, 2009)
William T. Frankenberger Professor of Soil Science
About Bill Frankenberger:
http://envisci.ucr.edu/faculty/frankenberger.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Frankenberger
Fernanda Chizzotti, visiting scientist, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
Aaron Sassman, research agronomist (MS, Iowa State University)
Javed Iqbal, research scientist (PhD, University of Wuhan)
Elaine Jordan, MS student (BS, University of Iowa)
Jordan Kersey, undergraduate (Environmental Science, Iowa State University)
Navreet Mahal, PhD student (BS, Punjab Agricultural University, MS Fresno State)
Carolina Cordova, PhD student (BS, Ecuador)
William T. Frankenberger Professor of Soil Science
About Bill Frankenberger:
http://envisci.ucr.edu/faculty/frankenberger.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Frankenberger
Fernanda Chizzotti, visiting scientist, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
Aaron Sassman, research agronomist (MS, Iowa State University)
Javed Iqbal, research scientist (PhD, University of Wuhan)
Elaine Jordan, MS student (BS, University of Iowa)
Jordan Kersey, undergraduate (Environmental Science, Iowa State University)
Navreet Mahal, PhD student (BS, Punjab Agricultural University, MS Fresno State)
Carolina Cordova, PhD student (BS, Ecuador)
Lab Alumni and their Publications
Ehsan Toosi, post-doc 2010-2012. Now Senior Scientist at Actagro and Adjunct Professor at Cal State Fresno
Toosi ER, Castellano MJ, Singer J, Mitchell D. 2012. Differences in soluble organic matter after 23 years of contrasting soil management. Soil Science Society of America Journal doi:10.2136/sssaj2011.0280
Toosi ER, Schmidt JP, Castellano MJ. 2014. Soil temperature is positively associated with dissolved organic carbon supply and negatively associated with soil solution nitrate. European Journal of Soil Biology
doi: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2014.01.003
Toosi ER, Schmidt JP, Castellano MJ. 2014. Land use and hydrologic flowpaths interact to affect dissolved organic matter and nitrate dynamics. Biogeochemistry, doi: 10.1007/s10533-014-9983-0.
David Mitchell, MS student 2010-2012. Now at UC Davis.
Mitchell DC, Castellano MJ, Sawyer JE, Pantoja JL. 2013. Cover crop effects on nitrous oxide emissions from a maize-based cropping system: Role of carbon inputs. Soil Science Society of America Journal doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.02.0074. Featured in the CSA News: https://www.crops.org/publications/csa/abstracts/58/9/14
Mitchell DC, Helmers MJ, Parkin TB, Zhou X, Castellano MJ. 2015. Comparing nitrate sink strength in perennial filter strips at toeslope of cropland watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality doi:10.2134/jeq2014.05.0201.
Iqbal J, Necpalova M, Archontoulis SV, Anex RP, Bourguignon M, Herzmann D, Mitchell DC, Sawyer J, Zhu Q, Castellano MJ. 2017. Extreme weather-year sequences have non-additive effects on environmental nitrogen losses. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.13866
Kim Brown, MS student 2012-2014. Now at Iowa State University.
Brown KH, Bach EA, Drijber RA, Hofmockel K, Jeske ES, Sawyer JE, Castellano MJ. 2014. A long-term N fertilizer gradient has little effect on soil organic matter in a high-intensity maize production system. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.12519
Will Osterhoz, PhD student 2012-2016. Now at Univ of Wisconsin-Madison.
Osterholz W, Liebman M, Rinot O, Castellano MJ. 2016. Can mineralization of soil organic nitrogen meet maize nitrogen demand? Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-016-3137-1
Osterholz W, Rinot O, Shaviv A, Linker R, Liebman M, Sanford G, Stock J, Castellano MJ. 2017. Predicting gross nitrogen mineralization and potentially mineralizable nitrogen using soil organic matter properties Soil Science Society of America Journal
Osterholz W., Liebman M, Castellano MJ. Can soil nitrogen dynamics explain the yield benefit of crop diversification? 2018. Field Crops Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378429017319081
Hanna Poffenbarger, PhD Student 2014-2017. Now Assistant Professor at University of Kentucky
Poffenbarger HJ, Barker DW, Helmers MJ, Miguez FE, Olk DC, Sawyer JE, Six J, Castellano MJ. 2017. Maximum soil organic carbon storage in Midwest U.S. cropping systems when crops are optimally nitrogen-fertilized. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0172293. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172293 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172293
Shane Bugeja, MS Student 2015-2017. Now an extension educator at University of Minnesota
Bugeja S, Castellano MJ. Carbon stabilization mechanisms across a restored prairie chronosequence. In revision.
