Graduate Alums Awarded Best Paper at International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America

Posted December 20, 2011

Two graduate students have been awarded best paper two years running at the International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America.  Most recently Jay Raymond, a Master of Science in Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences in who graduated in 2011 won at the Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas from October 16^th-19th.  His paper is entitled "Soil Drainage and Forest Type Influences on Soil organic Carbon Fractions in a New England Forested Watershed." Farrah Fatemi received a Ph. D. in Ecology and Environmental Sciences and her paper, “The Effects of Long-Term Forest N Enrichment and Acidification on Soil CNP Dynamics” was named first place at the 2010 Conference.   For more information, see the UMaine News story here.