Faculty Profile

Ronald F. Follett, Ph.D.

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Dr. Follett

Adjunct Professor of Soil Science

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Education

  • B.S. Soil Science, Colorado State Univ. 1961
  • M.S. Soil Chemistry, Colorado State Univ. 1963
  • Ph.D. Soil Fertility, Purdue Univ. 1966 

Professional Activities and Interests

  • Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, and the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
  • Past Northern Plains Director in SWCS.
  • Has edited 14 books and has authored/coauthored 1 book and nearly 300 scientific publications on topics that include nutrient management for forage production, soil-N and C-cycling, groundwater quality protection, global climate change, agroecosytems, soil and crop management systems, soil erosion and crop productivity, plant mineral nutrition, animal nutrition, irrigation, and drainage.
  • Adjunct Professor with Colorado State University and Virginia Tech.

Recent Honors

  • Has received USDA’s highest award twice, the ‘USDA Distinguished Service Award’, as well as the ‘USDA Superior Service Award’.

  • In 2005, received the ‘ARS Senior Scientist of the Year Award’ in the Northern Plains Area.

  • In 2004, received the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award.

Recent Publications

  • Reeves, J.B. III., R.F. Follett,  G.W. McCarty,and J.M. Kimble.  2006. Can Near or Mid-Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Be Used to Determine Soil Carbon Pools? Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 37: 1–19, 2006.

  • Collins, H.P., J.A. Delgado, A.K. Alva, and R. F. Follett.  2007.  Use of 15N Isotopic Techniques to Estimate N Cycling from a Mustard Cover Crop to Potatoes. Agronomy Journal 99:27-35.

  • Leavitt, S.W., R.F. Follett, J.M. Kimble, and E.G. Pruessner.  2007.  Radiocarbon and  delta13C depth profiles of soil organic carbon in the U.S. Great Plains: A possible spatial record of paleoenvironment and paleovegetation. Quaternary International 162-163:21-34.

  • Follett, R.F., E.A. Paul, and E.G. Pruessner.  2007.  Soil carbon dynamics during a long-term incubation study involving 13C and 14C measurements.  Soil Science 172:189-208.

  • Magrini, K. A.*, R. F. Follett, J. Kimble,  M. F. Davis, and E. Pruessner,  2007.  Using Pyrolysis Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry (MBMS) to Characterize Soil Organic Carbon in Native Prairie Soils.  Soil Science 172:659-672.

  • Follett, R.F.  2007.  Economic and Societal Benefits of Soil Carbon Management: Cropland and Grazing land Systems.  Pp. 99-128. IN  J.M. Kimble, C.W. Rice, D.R. Reed, S. Mooney, R.F. Follett and R. Lal (eds).  Soil Carbon Management: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Benefits.  CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. 268 p.

  • Lal, R., R. F. Follett, B. A. Stewart and J. M. Kimble.  2007.  Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate Climate Change and Advance Food Security.  Soil Science 12 (172):943-956.

  • Varvel,G.E., K.P. Vogel, R.B. Mitchell, R.F. Follett, J.M. Kimble. 2008.  Comparison of corn and switchgrass on marginal soils for bioenergy.  Biomass and Bioenergy 32:18-21.

  • J.L. Hatfield and R.F. Follett (eds).  Nitrogen in the Environment; Sources, Problems, and Management (Book). 2nd edition.  Elsevier Sci. Pubs. 702p.
  • Follett,  Jennifer R. and Ronald F. Follett. 2008. Relationship of Environmental Nitrogen Metabolism to Human Health.  Chapter 4.  pp 71-104,  In J.L. Hatfield and R.F. Follett (eds).  Nitrogen in the Environment; Sources, Problems, and Management.  2nd edition. Elsevier Sci. Pubs.

My Work Groups

Keywords

  • soil carbon sequestration
  • carbon & nitrogen cycles