InfoAg 2015 Speaker
Dr. Harold van Es
Biography:
Harold van Es is Professor of Soil and Water Management and former Chair of the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Cornell University. He is a native of the Netherlands and received degrees from the University of Amsterdam, Iowa State University and North Carolina State University.
Current research and extension interests are in precision management of nitrogen, soil health, and space-time statistics. He teaches an undergraduate course in Soil Management for Sustainability, and a graduate course in Space-Time Statistics. He has published over 110 peer reviewed papers and chapters, co-authored a widely-read book on sustainable soil management (Building Soils for Better Crops), developed numerous extension articles and videos, and advised 45 graduate students. He is a Fellow of both the Soil Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy.