Professor of horticulture

University affiliation

• College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: mgkarlsson@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-7005

Media contact

Julie Stricker

• Phone: (907) 474-5406
• Email: jestricker2@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Agriculture

Research interests/biography

Meriam Karlsson's research interests include greenhouse, high tunnel and controlled-environment crop production; plant growth in response to light intensity, quality, day length and the use of LEDs. Energy-efficient production techniques in greenhouse and season extension environments; development of guidelines to optimize vegetable, small fruit and floral crop production; and environmental plant physiology as it applies to commercial horticulture at high latitudes. Horticulture, crop lighting.