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Soil Science Laboratory |
Dr. Mingxin Guo |
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Mingxin Guo
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Overview
The Soil Science Laboratory aims to develop and extend best management practices for maximizing agricultural productivity while minimizing adverse environmental impacts through scientific research and training endeavors.
Focal areas of the laboratory are:
- Soil conservation and fertility improvement
- Value-added reuse of agricultural byproducts
- Fate and transport of nutrients and contaminants in agricultural ecosystems
- Bioretention for stormwater treatment
- Bioenergy, climate change, & sustainability education
Ongoing projects and research activities intend to determine agronomic application rates of lime-stabilized biosolids and poultry litter, to produce, upgrade, and utilize organic waste-derived biochar and pyrolysis bio-oil on farm, to develop biochar-formulated filtration media for treating stormwater, and to train science educators with bioenergy, bioproducts and climate change literacy.
Lab Members
Post-Doctorate and Visiting Scholars:
Namfon Tongtavee
Yufang Shen
Graduate Students:
Guannan Qiu
Amber Still
Yingxin Lin
Melissa Schutte
Pengli Xiao
Yaohong Zhang
Uuganbayar Buyantogtokh
Michael Katz
Related Links
Bioenergy & Bioproducts Education Project
Climate Change Education Project
Publications (Newest – Oldest)
Guo, M. 2014. The Shifting Hydrology and Water Resources under the Changing Climate. Hydrol. Current Res 5:e116. doi: 10.4172/2157-7587.1000e116.
Guo, M. 2014. Effective Watershed Management: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Hydrol. Current Res 5:e119. doi: 10.4172/2157-7587.1000e119.
Song, W. and M. Guo. 2014. Residual veterinary pharmaceuticals in animal manures and their chemical behavior in soils. p. 299−311. In: Z. He and H. Zhang (ed.) Applied Manure and Nutrient Chemistry for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment. Springer: New York, NY.
Guo, M. 2013. Stream nutrient criteria for evaluating water eutrophication and biota conditions. Hydrol. Current Res. 4:e112. doi:10.4172/2157-7587.1000e112
Guo, M. 2013. Evolving bioretention techniques for urban stormwater treatment. Hydrol. Current Res. 4:e106. doi:10.4172/2157-7587.1000e106
Guo, M. 2013. Critical review on Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. J. Environ. Qual. 42: 292.
Guo, M., Y. Shen, and Z. He. 2012. Poultry litter-based biochar: preparation, characterization, and utilization. p. 171−202. In: Z. He (ed.) Applied Research in Animal Manure Management: Challenges and Opportunities beyond the Adverse Environmental Impacts. Nova Science Publishers: Hauppauge, NY.
Guo, M. 2012. Disposal of biosolids through land application: concerns and opportunities. Hydrol. Current Res. 3:e104. doi:10.4172/2157-7587.1000e104
Guo, M., W. Song, and R. Kazda. 2012. Fertilizer value of lime-stabilized biosolids as a soil amendment. Agron. J. 104:1679−1686.
Song, W. and M. Guo. 2012. Quality variations of poultry litter biochars generated at different pyrolysis temperatures. J. Anal. Appl. Pyrolysis 94:138−145.
Guo, M. and W. Song. 2011. Converting poultry litter to activated carbon: optimal carbonization conditions and product adsorption for organics. Environ. Technol.32:1789−1798.
Sun, K., S.R. Kyoung, M. Guo, J. Novak, H. Mashayekhi, and B. Xing. 2011. Adsorption of bisphenol A, 17α-ethinyl estradiol and phenanthrene on thermally and hydrothermally produced biochars. Bioresource Technol. 102:5757−5763.
Dr. Mingxin Guo
Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901
Phone: 302-857-6479
Fax: 302-857-6455
Email: mguo@desu.edu
College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology