RED RAIDER PEDOLOGY
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CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS
Ben Newcomb
PhD Student
Research Interest: Dynamic soil properties in wildfire affected soils
Daniel Hirmas, PhD
B.L. Allen Endowed Chair and Professor of Pedology
Research Interest: Soil morphology, quantitative pedology, soil hydrology, soil geomorphology
Swagata Mukhopadhyay, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interest: Soil Science, digital soil morphometrics
Vaishnavi Varikuti
PhD Student
Research Interest: Root, soil, and bedrock effects on soil hydraulic, chemical, and physical properties
Swagat Subedi
MS Student
Research Interest: Soil carbonates quantification, soil inorganic carbon formation, sequesteration of carbonates in soil
Adrian Parada
PhD Student
Research Interest: Soil structure, soil hydraulic properties, soil geomorphology, terroir
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Nadeesha Vidanage
PhD Student
Research Interest: Effects of climatic conditions on soil hydraulic properties
Maria Bronnikova, PhD
Fulbright Alumni and TTU Pedology Laboratory Manager
Research Interest: Soil morphology and micromorphology, pedogenesis and soil development in space and time, paleosols, multiproxy records of environmental changes, and geoarchaeology
Taylor McDowell, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Interest: Urban soils and their hydraulic properties, nature-based solutions for stormwater and runoff reduction
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Atefeh Ziyaee
PhD Student
Research Interest: Climate-soil interaction, vegetation-climate feedback, ecohydrological modeling
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ALUMNI
Postdoc
Matthew Amato - 2023-24