Research Team (last updated 11/2012)

Post-Docs

Staff Members

Graduate Students

Jongsung Kim 8/2008 to 12/2012 Ph.D. student Research project: Upscaling of soil propertiese across landscapes of South Florida

Pasicha (Ploy) Chaikaew 8/2009 to present Ph.D. student Research project: Carbon management and ecosystem services valuation

Xiong (Sean) Xiong 8/2009 to present Ph.D. student Research project: Multi-scale carbon modeling in Florida

Christopher C. Clingensmith 5/2012 to present M.S. student Research project: Development of a geospatial soil-crop inference engine for smallholder farmers in India

Yiming Xu 8/2012 to present Ph.D. student Research project: Development of a geospatial soil-crop inference engine for smallholder farmers in India

Post-Docs Advised

• Dr. Nichola M. Knox (11/2010 to 11/2011). Projects: Carbon assessment in dependence of environmental and anthropogenic forcings in Florida & the conundrum of validation in ecological modeling.
  
• Dr. Biao Zhong (5/2010 to 2/2011). Project: Terrestrial Carbon Information System.
• Dr. D. Brenton Myers (8/2008 to 9/2010). Project: Geospatial modeling of soil carbon pools & soil carbon sequestration (FL)
• Dr. Gustavo M. Vasques (8/2009 to 2/2010). Project: Multi-scale modeling of soil carbon; development of the Terrestrial Carbon Information System (Terra C).
• Dr. Ho-Young Kwon (11/2006 to 8/2010). Project: Ontology-based simulation of hydrology and phosphorus transport in low-relief farm basins.
• Dr. Deoyani Sarkhot (1/2008 to 4/2009). Project: Assessment of soil carbon storage on a floodplain site in TX using analytical, spectral and geostatistical methods.
• Dr. Gregory L. Bruland (6/2004 to 12/2005). Projects: Geo-temporal modeling of soil nitrogen in the Santa Fe River Watershed; and spatially-explicit modeling of biogeochemical properties in Water Conservation Area 3, Everglades.
• Dr. Ronald Corstanje (10/2004 to 5/2005). Project: Geostatistical modeling of the spatial distribution of biogeochemical soil and environmental properties in subtropical wetlands.
• Dr. Christine Bliss (9/2002 to 12/2005). Projects: Investigate relationships between nitrogen in soils, foliage, throughfall and the atmosphere in Pinus elliottii adjacent to poultry operations that showed incidence of pitch canker; and geo-temporal modeling of soil nitrogen in the Santa Fe River Watershed.
• Dr. Thomas F.A. Bishop (7/2002 to 7/2003). Project: Geo-spatial soil mapping in the Greater Everglades.
  

Students Graduated
Major advisor:

Jongsung Kim (Ph.D.) - 2012. Dissertation. Upscaling of soil propertiese across landscapes of South Florida.

Kathleen Lockhard (M.S. non-thesis) - 2012

Jinseok Hong (Ph.D.) - 2011. Dissertation: Modeling of soil properties in the Santa Fe River Watershed using exhaustive spatial environmental data. [Co-advisor: Grunwald]

C. Wade Ross (M.S.) - 2011. Thesis: Spatial-temporal modeling of soil organic carbon across a subtropical region.

Gustavo M. Vasques (Ph.D.) - 2009. Dissertation: Spatial and spectral models of soil carbon at multiple scales in Florida.

Bernard Fungo (M.S.) - 2008. Thesis: Erosion and land degradation on Luunyu soils in the Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda.

Jessica McKay (M.S.) - 2008. Thesis: Utilizing a knowledge-based system to test the transferability of a soil-landscape model in northeastern Vermont.

Tiffany Kapner (M.S.) - 2007. Thesis: Spatial relationships between physico-chemical soil properties and vegetative patterns in Everglades Water Conservation Area 1.

Rosanna G. Rivero (Ph.D.) - 2006. Dissertation: Development of predictive models of soil phosphorus in Water Conservation Area-2A (Everglades), integrating remote sensing, GIS and geostatistics.

Sanjay Lamsal (Ph.D.) - 2006. Dissertation: Development of holistic, quantitative soil-landscape models in north-east Florida.

Kathleen McKee (M.S.) - 2005. Thesis: Predicting soil phosphorus storage in historically isolated wetlands within the Lake Okeechobee Priority Basins.

Aarthy Sabesan (M.S.) - 2004. Thesis: Geo-spatial assessment of the impact of land cover dynamics and distribution of land resources on soil and water quality in the Santa Fe River Watershed.

Supervisory committee:

David Godwin (Ph.D.) - 2012 (School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF)

Teresia Nyoike (Ph.D.) - 2012 (Entomology)

Shine Taylor (Ph.D.) - 2011 (Entomology, UF)

Stewart Whitney (M.S.) - 2010 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)

Elena Rhodes (Ph.D.) - 2010 (Entomology, UF)

Louise Loudermilk (Ph.D.) - 2010 (Interdisciplinary Ecology, UF)

Eef Meeerschman (M.S.) - 2009 (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Lori Clark (M.S.) - 2008 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)

D. Brenton Myers (Ph.D.) - 2008 (University of Missouri)

Dwain Butler (M.S.) - 2008 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)

Mark McKenney (Ph.D.) - 2008 (Computer Science and Engineering Department, UF)

Alejandro Pauly (Ph.D.) - 2007 (Computer Science and Engineering Department, UF)

Claudia Arrieta (M.S.) - 2006 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)

Chen Qi (M.S.) - 2004 (Civil and Coastal Engineering, UF)

Ravindra Ramnarine (M.S.) - 2003 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)

Michael Tischler (M.S.) - 2002 (Soil and Water Science Department, UF)