Richard Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
- Developing a research program aimed at understanding the roles that crop diversity and climate change play in mediating key agroecosystem functions
- Establishing a long-term cropping system study to understand how fertility practices and crop diversity interact to affect nutrient cycling and weed-crop competitive relationships
- Growing a collaborative regional network aimed at assessing the ecological basis for sustainable polyculture cropping systems relevant to the northeast and beyond
- Building capacity to maintain and staff long-term field experimentation that supports my research agenda