Affiliated Researchers: Agricultural Science

John Tooker

Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Host Plant, Herbivore, Plant Defense, Neonicotinoid, Silphium

Erika Machtinger

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Diptera, House Fly, Muscidae, Tick Control, Filth Flies

Ekaterina Bazilevskaya

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Regolith, Porosity, Diabase, Borehole, Carbon Dioxide

Felipe Montes

Associate Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Emissions, Silage, Volatile Organic Compound, Volatile Organic Compound Emission, Manure

Bryan McDonald

Sherwin Early Career Professorship and Associate Professor, History
Top research keywords: Americas, Environmental Change, Food Systems, Hostility, Culture Industry

Ali Demirci

Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Biofilm Reactor, Pulsed UV Light, Fermentation, Plastic Composite Support, Electrolyzed Oxidizing Water

Natalie Boyle

Assistant Research Professor, Genomics of Social Behavior and Bee Health, Entomology
Top research keywords: Apoidea, Osmia Lignaria, Pollinator, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae

Mark Gagnon

Research Associate, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Human Resources, Supervisors, Supervisory Personnel, Personnel, Cellular Agriculture

Robert Beelman

Professor Emeritus of Food Science; Director, Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health
Top research keywords: Nutritional and medicinal properties of mushrooms, Antioxidants-selenium and ergothioneine, Vitamin D-enrichment of mushrooms

Yimin Zhu

Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Monolignol, Lignification, Lignin, P-coumarate, Facile Synthesis

Jeffrey Catchmark

Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Bacterial Cellulose, Cellulose, Surface (Surface Science), Composite Material, Pullulan

Troy Ott

Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Ovine, Interferon-α (IFN-α), Conceptus, Interferon Tau, Endometrium

Douglas Wrenn

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Subdivision Development, Residential Subdivisions, Pennsylvania, Shale Gas Development, Residential Development

Robert D. Shannon

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Peatland, Methane, Manure Application, Peatlands, Michigan

Rui Shi

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Greenhouse Gas, Feedstock, Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Engineering, Jet Fuel

David M. Beyer

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Mushroom Substrate, Substrate Preparation, Agaricus Bisporus, Hypnum, Spawning

Yi Zhang

Assistant Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Transglutaminase, Food Enzyme, Bioprocess, Gelatin, Alcalase

Greg Krawczyk

Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Lepidoptera, Oriental Fruit Moth, Tortricidae, Hemiptera, Pentatomidae

Armen Kemanian

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Grains, Cover Crop, Soil Organic Carbon, Cover Crops

Eileen F. Fabian (Wheeler)

Top research keywords: Manure, Ammonia Emission, Ammonia, Dairy Manure, Emission Rate

Patrick Drohan

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Watersheds, United States, Soil Moisture, Land Use

C. Alan Rotz

Agricultural Engineer, US Department of Agriculture
Top research keywords: Farms, Medicago Sativa, Manure, Dairy Farming, Silage

Chris Forest

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Climate Models, Climate System, Earth System Model

Blair Siegfried

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Agricultural Sciences
Top research keywords: Western Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica Virgifera, Coleoptera, European Corn Borer, Bacillus Thuringiensis

Ryan Thombs

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, United States, Fixed Effects, Income Inequality, US States

Murali Haran

Department Head and Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian Inference, Model Calibration, Spatial Data, Ice-sheet Models

Laura Leites

Associate Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Quercus, Growth Potential, Response To Climate, Pseudotsuga Menziesii

Heather Karsten

Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cover Crop, Pennsylvania, Manure, No-till, Grains

Jeffrey Hyde

Director of Extension and Associate Dean, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Dairy Farm, Maize, Wine, Pennsylvania, Cow

Junjun Yin

Assistant Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Twitter Data, Spatial Interaction, Mobile Device, Twitter User, Social Media

Guangqing Chi

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: China, Population Dynamics, Population Change, Land Use, Population Increase

Darryl Farber

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Scenario Planning, Philosophy Of Engineering, Nuclear Power, Engineered System, Waste Sites

Lauren McPhillips

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Stormwater, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Denitrification, Methane, Solar Farm

Robert D. Berghage

Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Roofs, Roof, Green Roofs, Stormwater, Runoff

Brian Thiede

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Americas, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Population Censuses, Climate Change Impacts

Timothy Michael Murtha Jr.

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Guatemala, Vegetation, Mexico, Tikal, Land Use

Daniel Ciolkosz

Associate Research Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Torrefaction, Energy Use, Torrefied, Glucose Yield, Pellet Production

Howard Salis

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Genetics, Dynamics, Promoter Region, Messenger RNA, Gene Expression

Siela Maximova

Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cacao, Theobroma Cacao, Somatic Embryogenesis, Infectious Agent, Arabidopsis

Kenneth Davis

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Atmospherics, Emissions, Methane, Boundary Layer