Professor of Soil Chemistry

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

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Education

B.Sc. University of California, Riverside  (1979) Chemistry

Ph.D.  University of California, Riverside  (1983) Soil Chemistry. 

Postdoctoral Fellow. (1983 - 1985)  Los Alamos National Laboratory

Professional Positions

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow (1983 – 1985)

University of Florida, Soil and Water Science Dept. Asst.-Assoc Professor (1985 – 1993)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sabbatical Fellow (1991)

Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium, Sabbatical (1992 and 2002)

Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Assoc. Professor - Professor (1993 – present)

Membership in Academic, Professional and Scholarly Societies

American Chemical Society

Clay Minerals Society

Mineralogical Society of America

Soil Science Society of America

Awards /  Honors

• 1982 - Graduate Regents Fellows at the University of California, Riverside
• 1983 - Membership in Sigma Xi and Gamma Sigma Delta
• 1997 - Elected to Council - Councilor for the Clay Minerals Society (1997 – 2000)
• 1999 - General Chair for the 1999 Clay Minerals Society Meetings
• 2001 - ESCOP Leadership Development Program Fellow (Class 10)
• 2001 - Recipient of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Award of The Clay Minerals Society
• 2002 - Election to Fellow, Soil Science Society of America
• 2002  - Recipient of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Soil Science Award
• 2004  - Vice President of The Clay Minerals Society
• 2002 - Curator of the Source Clays Repository
• 2004 - George Brown Lecturer – 2004 Clay Minerals Groups of the Mineralogical Society (London)
• 2005-6 - President of The Clay Minerals Society
• 2006-7 - Member of the Executive Committee for Elements – An international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology
• 2006-7 - Member of Editorial Board for Geochemical Transactions