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Richard E. Engel

Associate Professor of Soil Science
Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Montana State University

Address:
Leon Johnson Hall, MSU

Phone Number: 406-994-5295
Fax Number: 406-994-3933
EMAIL: engel@montana.edu
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Richard E. Engel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University. He received hisPh.D. in 1983 from the University of Minnesota, his M.S. in 1978 from North Dakota State University, and his B.S. in 1975 from the University of Maine. His research interests are soil nutrient management and plant nutrition. He does field research investigations on management and use of fertilizer inputs for improving crop yield and quality; water and environmental stress effects on crop nutrient requirements, yield, and quality; plant nutrition effects on disease and disease-like symptoms in wheat; and fertilizer management for maintaining environmental quality.


CASMGS Research
"We are trying to understand whether the quantity and quality (C:N) of surface crop residue has any impact on the ability of soils to sequester carbon. Carbon sequestration is defined as the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere into long-lived pools of carbon. Volume and mass of surface residue inputs can vary greatly due to site-specific differences in production (landscape effects) and surface residue redistribution by farm machinery. Our research will determine whether surface inputs (quantity and quality) impact C sequestration or whether C sequestration in the soil is a function of root inputs.

"We are concerned about nitrous oxide (N2O) emission from agricultural ecosystems because N2O is a greenhouse gas that is 310 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. To investigate if changing cropping system practices, including reduced tillage, affects nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils we will be including vented soil covers for the measurement of N2O emissions from soils. Gas samples will be collected periodically thru the 2003 and 2004 cropping seasons at a farm site in northern Montana. Analysis of gas samples for N2O will enable us to characterize season patterns of emissions and the quantity of N2O lost to the atmosphere from soils in this region. We hope to confirm that soil and crop management practices that are associated with improved carbon sequestration are consistent with reduced or minimal N2O emissions."
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Publications
2001. "Nitrogen and Water Stress Interact to Influence Carbon-13 Discrimination in Wheat", Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. V. 65 : 1823-1828.