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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Overview

Kurt A. Spokas is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including soil science, pollution, environmental chemistry, biomaterials, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientific work of Kurt A. Spokas covers several main topics, such as:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Coal and Its By-products
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

They have published research in frequent venues including:

  • Biochar
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis
  • Agricultural & Environmental Letters
  • PLoS ONE

Kurt A. Spokas has collaborated often with several coauthors, including:

  • James A. Ippolito
  • Beatriz Gámiz
  • D. J. Mulla
  • J. M. Novak
  • Thomas F. Ducey

Some recent papers featuring their contributions are:

  • Feedstock choice, pyrolysis temperature and type influence biochar characteristics: a comprehensive meta-data analysis review, 2020, Biochar
  • Enhancing Cation Exchange Capacity of Weathered Soils Using Biochar: Feedstock, Pyrolysis Conditions and Addition Rate, 2020, Agronomy
  • Phytostabilization of acidic mine tailings with biochar, biosolids, lime, and locally-sourced microbial inoculum: Do amendment mixtures influence plant growth, tailing chemistry, and microbial composition?, 2021, Applied Soil Ecology
  • Biochar changes the bioavailability and bioefficacy of the allelochemical coumarin in agricultural soils, 2020, Pest Management Science
  • Temperature alters dicyandiamide (DCD) efficacy for multiple reactive nitrogen species in urea-amended soils: Experiments and modeling, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Kurt A. Spokas has been recognized by professional societies with fellowships in the Soil Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, both awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Review of the stability of biochar in soils: predictability of O:C molar ratios

    Kurt A Spokas

  • Biochar: a synthesis of its agronomic impact beyond carbon sequestration.

    Kurt A. Spokas;Keri B. Cantrell;Jeffrey M. Novak;David W. Archer

  • Impacts of woodchip biochar additions on greenhouse gas production and sorption/degradation of two herbicides in a Minnesota soil.

    K.A. Spokas;W.C. Koskinen;J.M. Baker;D.C. Reicosky

  • Feedstock choice, pyrolysis temperature and type influence biochar characteristics: a comprehensive meta-data analysis review

    James A. Ippolito;Liqiang Cui;Claudia Kammann;Nicole Wrage-Mönnig

  • Impacts of Sixteen Different Biochars on Soil Greenhouse Gas Production

    Kurt A. Spokas;Donald C. Reicosky

  • Microbial methane oxidation processes and technologies for mitigation of landfill gas emissions.

    Charlotte Scheutz;Peter Kjeldsen;Jean E. Bogner;Alex De Visscher

  • METHANE MASS BALANCE AT THREE LANDFILL SITES: WHAT IS THE EFFICIENCY OF CAPTURE BY GAS COLLECTION SYSTEMS?

    K. Spokas;J. Bogner;J.P. Chanton;M. Morcet

  • Qualitative analysis of volatile organic compounds on biochar.

    Kurt A. Spokas;Jeffrey M. Novak;Catherine E. Stewart;Keri B. Cantrell

  • Characteristics and Applications of Biochar for Environmental Remediation: A Review

    Tao Xie;Krishna R. Reddy;Chengwen Wang;Erin Yargicoglu

  • Biochar, soil and land-use interactions that reduce nitrate leaching and N2O emissions: A meta-analysis.

    Nils Borchard;Michael Schirrmann;Maria Luz Cayuela;Claudia Kammann

  • Physical and chemical characterization of waste wood derived biochars.

    Erin N. Yargicoglu;Bala Yamini Sadasivam;Krishna R. Reddy;Kurt Spokas

  • Ethylene: potential key for biochar amendment impacts

    Kurt A. Spokas;Kurt A. Spokas;John M. Baker;John M. Baker;Donald C. Reicosky

  • Biochar’s role as an alternative N-fertilizer: ammonia capture

    Kurt A. Spokas;Jeff M. Novak;Rodney T. Venterea

  • Nitrogen oxide and methane emissions under varying tillage and fertilizer management.

    Rodney T. Venterea;Martin Burger;Kurt A. Spokas

  • Physical Disintegration of Biochar: An Overlooked Process

    K. A. Spokas;K. A. Spokas;J. M. Novak;C. A. Masiello;M. G. Johnson

  • Activated Carbon, Biochar and Charcoal: Linkages and Synergies across Pyrogenic Carbon’s ABC s

    Nicolas Hagemann;Kurt A. Spokas;Hans-Peter Schmidt;Ralf Kägi

  • Challenges and opportunities for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from fertilized cropping systems

    Rodney T. Venterea;Rodney T. Venterea;Ardell D. Halvorson;Newell Kitchen;Mark A. Liebig

  • Landfills as atmospheric methane sources and sinks

    J. Bogner;K. Spokas;E. Burton;R. Sweeney

  • Predicting the impact of biochar additions on soil hydraulic properties

    T.J. Lim;K.A. Spokas;K.A. Spokas;G. Feyereisen;J.M. Novak

  • Impact of biochar field aging on laboratory greenhouse gas production potentials.

    Kurt A. Spokas

  • Kinetics of Methane Oxidation in a Landfill Cover Soil: Temporal Variations, a Whole-Landfill Oxidation Experiment, and Modeling of Net CH4 Emissions

    Jean E. Bogner;Kurt A. Spokas;Elizabeth A. Burton

  • Landfill CH4: Rates, fates, and role in global carbon cycle

    J. Bogner;K. Spokas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Novak
Jeffrey M. Novak United States Department of Agriculture
James A. Ippolito
James A. Ippolito The Ohio State University
William C. Koskinen
William C. Koskinen University of Minnesota
Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
Claudia Kammann
Claudia Kammann Hochschule Geisenheim University
David W. Archer
David W. Archer Agricultural Research Service
Rodney T. Venterea
Rodney T. Venterea Agricultural Research Service
Frank Forcella
Frank Forcella Agricultural Research Service
Maria Luz Cayuela
Maria Luz Cayuela Spanish National Research Council
Roger T. Koide
Roger T. Koide Brigham Young University

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