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Michael Thompson
Professor
2024 President, Soil Science Society of America
Dr.
Michael
L
Thompson
Office:
2503 Agronomy 716 Farm House Ln
Phone:
(515) 294-2415
Email:
mlthomps@iastate.edu
Michael Thompson
Professor
2024 President, Soil Science Society of America
Dr.
Michael
L
Thompson
Office:
2503 Agronomy 716 Farm House Ln
Phone:
(515) 294-2415
Email:
mlthomps@iastate.edu

About

My teaching program includes an undergraduate course on Organic Compounds in Plants and Soils and a mixed undergrad/grad course on Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry. Each course is taught one semester per year.

My research program centers on environmental applications of soil chemistry and mineralogy. These studies seek to identify chemical and physical conditions that favor stability, transformations, and movement of nutrients, soil organic matter, and anthropogenic contaminants in soils. Current research projects include characterization and transformations of soil organic matter, the impacts of biofuel cropping systems on soil health, the mechanisms of colloid-mediated transport of hormones derived from municipal biosolids, and the composition of organic matter preserved in Quaternary paleosols.

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Office:
2501 Agronomy Hall 716 Farm House Ln
Email:
tchuaona@iastate.edu
Interim Department Chair
Morrill Professor
Associate Chair of Academics
MS Agronomy Program Director
Portrait of Dr. Mary Wiedenhoeft, Morrill Professor
Office:
2104B/1126H Agronomy, 716 Farm House Ln
Phone:
(515) 294-3274
Email:
mwiedenh@iastate.edu

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