About

The interdisciplinary team of engineers, mathematicians, soil and agricultural scientists, social scientists, and agricultural economists, supports rural livelihoods in the water-stressed Central High Plains. It will generate fundamental knowledge regarding the impacts of soil amendments, soil wetting bacteria and biochar, to increase the water holding capacity of soil, thereby improving agroecosystem productivity as water becomes more limited due to climate-change-driven droughts.

Meet the team behind MICRA

 

Principal Investigators

Dr. Melanie Derby

Dr. Charles E. Wilson Chair in Engineering, Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Dr. Seunghee Kim - University of Nebraska Lincoln

Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Franklin Fondjo Fotou -  Langston University

Associate Professor, Chair Dept. of Engineering Technology, Langston University

Co-Principal Investigators

Dr. Gabriel Sampson

Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Dr.  Gaurav Jha

Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

Dr. Daniel Schachtman

George Holmes Professor, University of Nebraska- Lincoln

Dr. Rajib Saha

Richard L. and Carol S. McNeel Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Vicky Fondjo

Associate Professor, Langston University

Dr. Abebaw Tadesse

Associate Professor, Langston University

Faculty

 

Ganga Hettiarachchi

Professor Soil & Environmental Chemistry, Kansas State University

Dr. Ryan Hansen

Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Dr. Debra Bolton

Director of intercultural learning, Kansas State University

Dr. Johnathan Aguilar

Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Dr. Saleh Taghvaeian

Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Taro Mieno

Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Michael Kaiser

Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Students and Postdoctoral

Moises Gutierrez

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Shahnawaz Alam Dip

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Anup Lamichhane

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Asad Bin Zaman

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Evelyn Osei

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Eugene Oku

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Nishadini Widanagamage

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Msgina Aregawi

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Manoj Sharma

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

sabya

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Joe Dios

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Sara Smith

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Kasuni Gamage

Research Associate, Kansas State University

Hussnain Mukhtar

Postdoc, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dania Vieira Branco Ozorio

Research Technologist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Staff

Mirit Shamir

Program Manager, Kansas State University

Dr. Michael Miller

External Evaluator, Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation, Kansas State University

Gloria Laugalis

Evaluation Assistant, Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation, Kansas State University

Alumni

Alison Konz

Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Eric Nelson

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rylie Mcdonell

Research Technician, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Sabrina Johnson

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Aiden Bienz

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

Gabriela Quintana Castro

Graduate Assistant, Kansas State University

Matilda King

Graduate Research Assistant, Kansas State University

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