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Kent Sutcliffe
Kent Sutcliffe began his education at the University of Maine in
1992. He started off in the Forestry program, but settled into the
Ecology and Environmental Sciences his sophomore year. He spent his
junior year at Utah State University as part of the National Student
Exchange program. In August 1996 he graduated from the University of
Maine with a B.S. in Natural Resources (currently the EES program)
and a concentration in Plants and Soils.
Immediately following graduation from UMaine, Kent began attending
graduate school at Utah State University, where he studied
redoximorphic feature formation in saline wet soils. In 1999, his
work resulted in a thesis titled Dynamics of Irrigation-Induced
and Saline Wet Soils, Central Utah.
Since 1998, Kent has been a soil scientist for the
Natural Resources Conservation
Service, an agency of the USDA. He is currently the Assistant
State Soil Scientist, but he has worked in the field extensively as
a Soil Mapper and as a Soil Survey Project Leader. One notable
project he led was the soil survey of the 1.8 million-acre Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah.
The EES program at UMaine gave me a great, well-rounded foundation,
with a heavy emphasis on written and oral communication. Critical
thinking skills are also well developed in this program. This
combination made me well prepared to tackle graduate school and then
my career. These skills were particularly useful when presenting
graduate research through written means and at professional
meetings.
-Kent D. Sutcliffe
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