Faculty
Research Interests - nutrient management, soil carbon dynamics, forage and field crop production in subarctic area, waste management and composting
Current Research Programs - soil carbon, forage quality and production with different management practices, selection of cereals cultivars suitable for sub arctic cultivation, compost and use of fish waste product for organic farming
Matthew Cronin - Research Associate Professor of Animal Genetics
Research Interests - population genetcis and phylogenetics, genetics of wild populations (caribou, deer, bison, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves) and domestic livestock (cattle, creindeer), and phylogeny of the artiodactyls and carnivores
Greg Finstad - Research Associate Professor of Range Ecology & Program Manager, Reindeer Research Program
Research Interests - range ecology, range management, plant-animal interactions, climate-vegetation dynamics, reindeer husbandry and management
Current Research Programs - range management & nutrition, forage selection, ration development, educational outreach & service, reindeer production, pasture evaluation
Research Interests - animal distribution patterns, ecosystem monitoring, stream morphology, time change analysis, vegetation growth and phenology, geographic information systems, remote sensing, global positioning systems
Current Research Programs - livestock distribution in grazed watershed, air temperature patterns on the landscape, near-earth remote sensing of vegetation patterns
Research Interests - production methods for horticultural crops, subarctic horticulture
Current Research Programs - cultivation and improvement of horticultural crops for Alaska, peonies as field grown cut flowers, antioxidant levels in Alaska wild berries, pollination biology of lingonberry, tissue culture propagation of lingonberry
Research Interests - greenhouse, controlled environment, and field crop production, alternative energy sources, hydroponics, development of industry partnerships in high latitude climates
Current Research Programs - berry research, innovative use of natural and supplmenetal light for high latitude crop production, The Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) program
Jenifer McBeath - Professor of Plant Pathology/Biotechnology
Research Interests - plant pathogen-mycoparasite interactions and biological disease controls using Trichoderma astroviride on disease-causing fungi, enhancing plant disease resistance, and work on potato diseases
Research Interests - permafrost-affected soils and carbon cycling in the Arctic and Subarctic, characterization of volcanic ash-derived soils in southern an dwestern Alaska, relationships between soil development and forest communities in the boreal regions, and wetland soils
Current Research Programs - biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems, soil environment monitoring in Alaska
Jan Rowell - Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests - muskox and reindeer husbandry, including bull behavior, breeding seasons, female estrus synchronization, gestation length, and ultrasonography, and qiviut characteristics
Milan Shipka - Professor of Animal Science, Extension Livestock Specialist, & Associate Director of the Agricultural & Forestry Experiment Station
Research Interests - reproductive physiology and behavior of traditional and alternative ruminant species in the Alaska livestock industry, such as reindeer, muskoxen, and cattle
Current Research Programs - reproductive biology of reindeer and musk ox and management of reproduction in theses species in farmed settings
Research Interests - long-term effects of tillage, forage crop management, and bio-energy crops, soil management
Current Research Programs - long-term tillage, crop data for revised universal soil loss equation for Alaska, forage crop harvest management, forage variety trials, new legumes crops for Alaska