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. | |