A5058812082- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Dye analysis and toxicity
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Water Resources and Management
- Data Analysis with R
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Engineering Education and Pedagogy
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
2018-2025
University of Science and Technology
2024
Korea University of Science and Technology
2024
Jain University
2023
Hudson Institute
2020
Delta Water Management Research Unit
2016-2020
Agricultural Research Service
2020
Arkansas State University
2020
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2020
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2019-2020
With current intensive agriculture practices and industrialization, pollution of natural resources like land water with heavy metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides, pesticides, fertilizers has become a major concern. Phytoremediation is cost-effective environmentally friendly technique that utilizes plants to immobilize, uptake, reduce toxicity, stabilize, or degrade the compounds are released into environment from different sources. Studies have shown contaminants, antibiotics,...
Burkina Faso faces chronic food insecurity because of adverse agroclimatic conditions and significant soil degradation. Mulching, the practice applying organic or synthetic materials to surface, offers a promising avenue for enhancing agricultural production in this challenging agroecological setting. This study utilized Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework (SIAF) evaluate ecological, economic, social impacts mulching on vegetable Faso. Experimental survey data collected from...
Improved understanding of water quality at the edge-of-field (EOF) from production-size fields is needed to better inform agriculture and resource managers regarding sustainable farming practices environmental stewardship. We measured runoff EOF paired commercial in Mississippi Craighead counties (total four fields) Delta region eastern Arkansas, an understudied agricultural region. The had similar size, soil properties, crop (cotton [<i>Gossypium hirsutum</i> L.] or corn [<i>Zea mays</i>...
Soil erosion and nutrient loss from surface runoff subsurface leaching are critical problems for cultivated land. Conservation initiatives show a persistent need field-scale cropland vulnerability assessments to inform farm management options prioritize efforts at watershed or regional scales. The Vulnerability Index (SVI) was developed by USDA9s Natural Resources Service (NRCS) assess inherent of using readily available soil topographic inputs: hydrologic group, slope, erodibility K-factor,...
Abstract As technology advances, data driven work is becoming increasingly important across all disciplines. Data science an emerging field that encompasses a large array of topics including collection, preprocessing, visualization, and analysis using statistical machine learning methods. undergraduates enter the workforce in future, they will need to "benefit from fundamental awareness competence science"[9]. This project has formed research practice partnership brings together STEM+C...
Consumer use of antimicrobial-containing products continuously introduces triclocarban and triclosan into the environment. Triclocarban adversely affect plants animals have potential to human health. Research examined phytoaccumulation by pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo cultivar Howden) zucchini Gold Rush) grown hydroponically. Pumpkin were in nutrient solution spiked with 0.315 μg/mL 0.289 for two months. Concentrations solutions monitored weekly. At end trial, roots shoots analyzed triclosan....
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has proposed the Soil Vulnerability Index (SVI) as a standard tool to classify inherent soil vulnerability of cropland loss sediment and nutrients by runoff leaching. uses properties topography, does not consider crop management, except for presence artificial surface or subsurface drainage. For artificially drained cropland, SVI remains unchanged but leaching is raised two classes out four reflect increased risk nitrate (NO<sub>3</sub>)...
With farm-scale knowledge of how production practices affect water quality, land managers and agricultural producers can make more informed decisions on implementing soil conservation that sustain productivity protect resources. The Lower Mississippi River Basin is a major region for rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.), cotton (<i>Gossypium hirsutum</i> soybean (<i>Glycine max</i> [L.] Merr.); however, there limited agronomic in those southern cropping systems quality. Results from environmental...
Low cost, sustainable technologies for addressing pollution of waters with trace concentrations pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are needed. Plant-based ecosystems wastewater treatment low-cost, effective the potential to address PPCPs. This abstract presents recent research examining phytoremediation PPCPs in both aquatic terrestrial systems discusses implications Research indicates that duckweed plants can stimulate microbial degradation ibuprofen, sorb uptake fluoxetine,...
Abstract With increasingly technology-driven workplaces and high data volumes, instructors across STEM+C disciplines are integrating more science topics into their course learning objectives. However, face significant challenges in additional concepts already full schedules. Streamlined instructional modules that integrated with content, cover relevant topics, such as collection, uncertainty data, visualization, analysis using statistical machine methods can benefit multiple disciplines. As...
Highlights Winter cover crops and growing season filter strips were implemented without sacrificing significant land achieved positive results. Cover reduced runoff depth, peak flow rate, sediment, TP, TN load by 30%, 49%, 43%, 4%, 7%, respectively. Filter 36%, 56%, 15%, 21%, Abstract. Effective use of conservation practices in agricultural fields can reduce sediment other pollutant loads entering waterways. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness using on nutrient loss at edge paired,...
Abstract Ecological engineers are increasingly needed to contribute the design of "nature-based solutions," "engineering with nature," and similar calls for circular, resilient systems. With this need comes a formalize grow number educational programs train next generation ecological engineers. As part effort meet need, American Engineering Society (AEES) formed Body Knowledge (BOK) Committee specific task identifying knowledge, skills, abilities that academic should incorporate into an...
Abstract Our society currently faces many environmental challenges such as natural resources depletion, pollution of soil, water and air, waste disposal, climate change. To best solve challenges, needs graduates ready to enter workforce with understanding processes ability incorporate these into traditional solutions. Therefore, a new course in Ecological Engineering Science (EES) was introduced at NCA&T State University teach students how nature lessons learned from the problems ensure...
Phytoremediation is used to treat wastewater, wherein plants, microorganisms, and soil work together remediate pollutants. We evaluated the plant processes that can affect metal mobilization during phytoremediation. The experimental columns were filled with silica sand mixture spiked redox-sensitive metal(loid)s—arsenic, manganese, iron, fitted an ORP probe oxygen sensors. Three planted poplars three others no-plant controls. Carbon-rich, synthetic food-processing wastewater was applied at...
Pollutant concentrations and loads in watersheds vary considerably with time space. Accurate timely information on the magnitude of pollutants water resources is a prerequisite for understanding drivers pollutant making informed resource management decisions. The commonly used "grab sampling" method provides at sampling (i.e., snapshot concentration) may under- or overpredict loads. Continuous monitoring nutrients sediment has recently received more attention due to advances computing,...