Willie G. Harris

Professor
Soil Mineralogy

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Soil Quality/Ecosystem Services
Soil/Landscape Analysis
Management of Nutrients, Pesticides, and Wastes

RESEARCH FOCUS
Research topics include: mineral stability and transformations in soils and sediments; properties and reactivities of minerals; mineral distributions as related to stability and genetic processes; and soil properties as related to mineralogy.

COURSES TAUGHT
SOS 3023L - Soil Judging
SOS 4715C/SOS 5716C - Environmental Pedology
SOS 6464C - Soil Mineralogy

PUBLICATIONS
Harris, W.G., and K.A. Hollien. 1988. Reversible and irreversible dehydration of hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite from Coastal Plain Soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 52:1808-1814.

Harris, W.G., A.A. Morrone, and Sylvia Coleman. 1992. Occluded mica in hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite grains from a highly-weathered soil. Clays Clay Min. 40:32-39.

Harris, W.G., H.D. Wang, and K.R. Reddy. 1994. Dairy manure influence on soil and sediment composition: Implications for P retention. J. Environ. Qual. 23:1071-1081.

Harris, W.G., S.H. Crownover, and N.B. Comerford. 1995. Experimental formation of Aquod-like features in sandy coastal plain soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 59:877-886.

Harris, W.G., R.D. Rhue, G. Kidder, R.B. Brown, and R. Littell. 1996. Phosphorus retention as related to morphology and taxonomy of sandy coastal plain soil materials. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 60:1513-1521.

Harris, W.G. 2000. Hydrologically-linked Spodosol formation in the Southeastern United States . p. 331-342. In J.L. Richardson and M.J. Vepraskas (eds.) Wetland soils: their genesis, hydrology, landscape, and separation into hydric and nonhydric soils. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Harris, W.G., S.H. Crownover, and J. Hinchee. 2005. Problems arising from fixed-depth assessment of deeply-weathered sandy soils. Geoderma 126:161-165.


CONTACT INFORMATION
Soil and Water Science Department, 2169 McCarty Hall, PO Box 110290, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
(352) 392.1951 x 251, (352) 392.3902 fax
email: apatite@ufl.edu
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