Soil Fertility Team

Steve Culman

Affiliated Faculty
culman.2@osu.edu
 

Curriculum Vitae
Steve's Google Scholar Profile and ResearchGate Profile

Steve is a soil scientist and agronomist. He has a diversity of interests in soil health, soil fertility and nutrient management, perennial grain cropping systems and agroecology.

Leonardo Deiss

Visiting Assistant Professor
deiss.8@osu.edu

Leo's Google Scholar Profile

Leo works with ecology, agriculture, and soil science. He is a trained soil scientist and agronomist interested in understanding how soils function in a variety of ecological conditions to support management solutions and promote sustainable development goals.

Ben Robinson, Research Associate
robinson.1757@osu.edu

Alyson Holzworth, Student Assistant

Alyson is an undergraduate student at Ashland University, studying environmental science, toxicology, and chemistry. Alyson has familiarity with solid-state synthesis, column chromatography, thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography, atomic absorption spectrometry, and UV-VIS. She previously interned at the OARDC and worked with water quality variability, field sampling within multiple agricultural fields, and soil samples. Alyson has also interned with The Ohio State University at Mansfield where she managed the campus Micro Farm, pinpointed vernal pools via GIS, managed inventory data and collection for the maple tree farm on campus, and sampled bee, butterfly, and vegetation plots. Alyson is very passionate about the environment and loves butterflies! She hopes to have fun while gaining experience with IR Spectroscopy and soil analysis applications at the Soil Fertility Lab!

Muhammad Tariq Saeed
Visiting Scholar