Research Interests

My research interests are wide ranging but with a focus on environmental management, sustainable agriculture and ecosystems, interactions between urban and peri-urban systems, and enhancing opportunities to utilize organic by-products (wastes).  The areas of research undertaken with my research team, including technicians and students, have revolved around:

• Agro-ecosystem-based studies of Emerging Substances of Concern (ESOC) in agroecosystems receiving alkaline treated biosolids;
• Evaluation of soil health and agronomic parameters from soil conditioners in cropped systems;
• Modeling of chemical transformations and dynamics in soils receiving organic amendments;
• Microbial and nutrient dynamics associated with biochar applications to soil;
• Composting slaughterhouse wastes, manures, MSW;
• Evaluation of a continuous flow gasification system with biomass feedstock;
• Alternative treatment approaches for wash and wastewater effluents from industrial processes;
• On-Farm management of Specified Risk Materials (SRM);
• Enhancing value opportunities by conversion of stock mortalities from salmon aquaculture into fish silage for use as agricultural amendments
  
• Microbial degradation of plastics.