ADDRESS: Professor of Range Management
Department of Agronomy
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-5501
BIRTH: March 17,1940
Clovis, NM
EDUCATION: B.S. - New Mexico State University - 1964
Ph.D. - Kansas State University - 1969
POSITIONS: Research Asst. 1964-66
Instructor - K.S.U. 1967-69
Asst. Professor - K.S.U. 1970-73
Assoc. Professor - K.S.U. 1974-78
Professor - K.S.U. 1979-
HONOR SOCIETIES: Gamma Sigma Delta
Sigma XI
Alpha Zeta
Phi Kappa Phi

HONORS:

KSU Outstanding Agriculture Faculty Member, 1971
Gamma Sigma Delta Teaching Award of Merit, 1971
Gamma Sigma Delta Faculty Award of Merit, 1984
AMOCO All University Outstanding Teaching Award 1985
NACTA Fellow Award 1985
Society for Range Management Outstanding Achievement Award 1989
Irvin Youngberg Award for Applied Research U of Kansas 1993
Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award of Merit, 1994
KSU College of Agriculture Faculty of the Semester 2000
Society for Range Management - W.R Chapline Research Award 2004
Society for Range Management - RSEC Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award 2018
NMSU College of ACES Outstanding Alumnus 2019
Kansas State University Teaching Excellence Honoree 2021-2022
Society for Range Management Frederic Renner Award 2023
RESEARCH EMPHASIS: Range Plant Physiology - carbon allocation, photosynthesis, and root exudation in range grasses, nitrogen cycling associated with fire in tallgrass prairie; effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment on the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and carbon, water vapor,methane, and energy fluxes of tallgrass prairie; impact of grazing on carbon allocation strategies including photosynthetic pathway effects; carbon sequestration under different land use practices.
Grazing Systems - development of economicaly and ecologically efficient grazing systems for stocker and cow/calf enterprises.
Range Burning - effects of range burning on plant and animal components of range ecosystems.
Other - development of GPG/GIS databases and tools for research and management of prairie.