Courses

 

2024

Instructor - Soil Health and Environment NRES/SOIL 255 (3cr.), 13 students.
Class TA: Bellodgia Roberson – MS student Agronomy Dpt., UNL.

Guest Lecturer - UNL Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives - Kobe University, 12 visiting scholars. Japan Outreach Initiative and the IANR Global Engagement Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Sustainability and Resilience of Agricultural Systems. Sept. 21.

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2023

Fall

Instructor - Soil Health and Environment NRES Special Topic 299 (3cr.), 17 students.
Class TA: Will Hernandez - senior undergrad Environmental Science, UNL.
 

Guest Lecturer

• UNL Intro to Environmental Science - NRES 115, 2 hour, 25 students. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Soil Problems and Conservation. Nov 15 and 17.

• UNL Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives - Kobe University, 15 visiting scholars. Japan Outreach Initiative and the IANR Global Engagement Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Sustainability and Resilience of Agricultural Systems. Sept. 21.

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Spring

Instructor - Agroecology AGRO, HORT, & NRES 435/835 (3cr.), 41 students.

 

Guest Lecturer - Introduction to Ecological Engineering BSEN 355, 1 hour, 25 students. Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Feb. 21.

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2022

Guest Lecturer

• UNL Intro to Environmental Science - NRES 115, 1 hour, 25 students. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Soil Problems and Conservation. Nov 18.

• MSU Agricultural Ecology – CSS 442, 2 hours, 25 students. Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University. Topic: Soil Basics, and Phosphorous cycling in agroecosystems. Oct. 20 and Nov. 3.

• UNL Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives - Kobe University, 22 visiting scholars. Japan Outreach Initiative and the IANR Global Engagement Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Sustainability and Resilience of Agricultural Systems. Sept. 26.

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Guest Lecturer (online) - Agronomy lecture series topics: i) Carbon sequestration and organic matter (Jan. 17-21); ii) Soil inorganic nitrogen availability (Feb. 1-4); iii) Conventional and organic beans production in Michigan (Feb. 15-16); iv) Soil health and the future of agriculture (Mar 7-9); v) Fertilizer recommendations for conventional and organic systems (Mar. 15-18). Taught to 200 and 500 level courses, with 20-110 undergraduate students from Ag. Engineering, Department of Agronomy, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito-Ecuador

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2021

Organizer and Co-Instructor - Workshop series on R, RStudio, and Statistics applied to Agricultural Research Projects (lecture + lab), with 45 faculty, and 5 co-instructors. Duration: 40 academic hours. Department of Agronomy, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Oct. 25-29.

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2020

Co-Instructor - CSS 442, "Agricultural Ecology", co-instructors: Phil Robertson, Bruno Basso, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. 

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2019   

Guest Lecturer -  W.K. Kellogg Biological Station K-12 Partnership Workshops:

1) “Air carbon transforms into matter and energy”;

2) “Fun online sources to talk about the Carbon cycle and biofuel production, plus how to use Excel to analyze data in the classroom”;

3) “One of the wonders of the microbe world: Nitrogen fixation”. Michigan

State University, Hickory Corners, MI. Apr. 16 and Jun. 25.

 

2017   

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Agronomy class 526, “Field plot technique” under the supervision of Dr. Ken Moore, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

 

Guest Lecturer - “Ecuadorian culture” and “Soil Types in Ecuador”, Horticulture Class 495 Ecology, culture and Horticulture of the Ecuadorian Andes, taught by Dr. Denny Schrock, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Sept. 11 and Oct. 2.

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Supervising

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Delaney Pohl, Research Assistant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). During fall 2024. Delaney assists with lab work part of a soil health assessment conducted post-fire event at the Nat. Sandhills Park in Halsey.

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Amelia Estrada, Research Assistant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). During fall 2024. Amelia assists with field and lab work part of a research study of nitrogen fixation in soybeans.

 

Will Hernandez, Teaching Assistant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). Fall 2023. Will assisted with the Soil Health and Environment class preparing lab activities and field trips.

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Mason Schumacher, Research Assistant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). During summer 2023. Mason assisted with field and lab work part of two soil health assessments of long-term sites in Nebraska.

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Zahraa Al-Tameemi, Research Assistant (Michigan State University)

During 2020-2021, Zahraa assisted with field and laboratory work of two projects: 1) Switchgrass associative nitrogen fixation; 2) Sorghum hybrid trial.

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Colin McHugh, Research Assistant

During August 2019 - 2020, Colin assisted with field and laboratory work as part of the Switchgrass Variety Experiment.

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Mentoring

 

2022

Charles W. Carpenter, III (Prairie View A&M University). Guided Charles on his independent project related to assessing the long-term effects of cover crops, tillage, and ecological succession on soil health parameters. Charles was part of the program funded by the National Science Foundation for Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (NFS-REU). May to Jul.

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2021

Sophia Schlenz (Swarthmore College). Guided Sophia on her independent project related to associative nitrogen fixation in switchgrass, quantifying differences at various soil pore sizes. Sophia was enrolled in the program funded by the National Science Foundation for Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (NFS-REU). May to Jul.

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2019 

Mentor to Nyduta Mbogo (Valparaiso University) and Colin McHugh (Kalamazoo Community Colleague). Guided them on their independent research project related to switchgrass, a model bioenergy crop grown at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, as part of the program funded by the National Science Foundation for Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (NFS-REU). May to Jul.

 

2016-2017 

Mentor to Jonathon Boss (Iowa State University) for his undergraduate research project. Jonathon investigated the impact on soybean yield by the addition of nitrogen fertilizer as well in crop growth.

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Mentor to Xingche Guo (Iowa State University), help him to integrate culturally and socially to the University. He was a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Statistics. Both were part of the Mentor-mentee program organized by the International Student Graduate Learning Community.

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2015-2016

Mentor to Cooper Smith (Iowa State University) for his undergraduate research project. Cooper investigated the soil nitrogen dynamics in crop fields right after harvest and measured inorganic nitrogen throughout the winter.

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