Wayne Teel
Department: Integrated Science and Technology
Areas of expertise:
- Soils, their protection and management
- Biochar production (small scale) and use on farms or soils in general
- Agroforestry and ecological agriculture
- Climate change and its implications especially as connected to ecosystem function
- Environmental science and ecology in general
Teel’s research focuses on production and use of biochar in small scale agriculture mostly for the improvement of soils.
Teel earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Seattle Pacific University, a master's degree in natural resource management at Cornell University and a doctorate in agroforestry, soils and international agriculture also at Cornell University.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu, 540-908-1760.
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