Lab Members
Staff
Dr. Patrick Drohan
Laboratory Director
452 Ag. Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: +1-814-863-4246
Fax: +1-814-863-7043
E-mail: pjd7@psu.edu
Curriculum vitae
Dr. Ed Ciolkosz
Prof. Emeritus of Soil Genesis & Morphology
Former Director, Penn State Soil Characterization Lab
242 Ag. Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: +1-814-865-1530
Fax: +1-814-863-7043
E-mail: f8i@psu.edu
Tim Craul
Soils Specialist, Penn State NRCS Liaison
USDA-NRCS
Map Compilation and Digitizing Center
University Park, PA
Phone: +1-814-865-2306
E-mail: Tim.Craul@pa.usda.gov
Mary Kay Lupton
Project Assistant
453 Ag. Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: +1-814-863-4327
Fax: +1-814-863-7043
E-mail: mxk397@psu.edu
Students
Lauren Vitko
Graduate Student (Ph.D. in progress)
Project title: Predicting geomorphic and pedological controls on water,
carbon, and nutrient movement.
Cody Fink Graduate Student (M.S. in progress) Project title: Marcellus Shale infrastructure landscape effects on ecosystems
Michael Marsicano Graduate Student (M.S. in progress) Project title: Quantifying soil change across MLRAs 127 and 140 for the identification of Ecological Sites and the development of State and Transition Models
Ben Bullock
Undergraduate Student (B.S. in progress)
Project title: Extent of carbon additions in soils of 19th century
furnace, charcoal pits
Kathryn Clark
Undergraduate Student (B.S. in progress)
Honor Course Project: Development of a soil morphology GPR library
for Pennsylvania soils.
Dan Lawler Undergraduate Student (B.S. in progress) Project title: Total mercury pools in soils across Pennsylvania.
Past Students
April Doroski Undergraduate Student (B.S.) Project title: Marcellus Shale infrastructure landscape effects on ecosystems
John Driscoll Undergraduate Student (B.S.) Project title: Marcellus Shale infrastructure landscape effects on ecosystems
Kyle Medash Undergraduate Student (B.S.) Project title: Marcellus Shale infrastructure landscape effects on ecosystems
Katherine Lindeburg Graduate Student (M.S.) Thesis Title: Silty Mantles and Fragipans in Pennsylvania Soils.
Emilie Erich Graduate Student (M.S.) Research Topic: The extent and characterization of subaqueous soils of Black Moshannon: Mercury distribution in the Black Moshannon drainage basin
Maggie Norton Undergraduate Student (B.S.) Research Topic: Gigapan imagery of soil monoliths to enhance distance learning of soil science
Alex Lin
Undergraduate Student (B.S.)
Research Topic: Aeolian contributions to soils along a hydrocatena on
the Allegheny Plateau.
Ben Moorehead
Undergraduate Student (B.S)
Research Topic: Characterization of surface crust mineralogy and
morphology in an acid mine drainage kill zone.
Co-advised with Dr. Mary Ann Bruns.
3rd Place Student Poster Competition at the
2010 West Branch Susquehanna Restoration Symposium.
Currently employed as a soil scientist with Hanover Engineering.
Austin Young
Undergraduate Student (B.S.)
Research Topic: Aeolian parent material contributions to a Pre-Wisconsinan
and Late Wisconsinan colluvial soil.
Currently employed as a soil scientist with Hanover Engineering.
Support Crew
Black Moshannon Banana People
