Faculty Profile

Steven C. Hodges, Ph.D.

My Picture

Dr. Hodges

Professor and Head

Appointment

Teaching : 33%

Research : 33%

Extension : 34%

Web

Education

  • B.S. Forestry-Wildlife Ecology, University of Florida, 1974
  • M.S. Pedology, University of Florida, 1977
  • Ph.D. Soil Chemistry & Mineralogy, VPI& SU, 1980
 

Link to recent CV

Professional Activities and Interests

  • I serve as department head and administrate academic, research, and extension programs, personnel, budgets, and physical resources of the Department of Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech (VPI&SU).
  • Teaching : Assessing Ecosystems Services
  • Research : Phosphorus loss from managed ecosystems, land use impacts on ecosystem services, nutrient cycling in grassland and turf, ecosystem modeling.
  • Extension : Watershed Management, Nutrient Management, Web-based Information delivery, Informing Policy through science-based team approaches.

Current Projects

  • Strategic Planning to address critical ecosystem services
  • 21st Century Agriculture

Recent Honors

  • Virginia Turf Council - VTC Award - 2007
  • USDA Secretary of Agriculture Honor Award-Phosphorus Loss Assessment Team 2004
  • Fellow, American Society of Agronomy, 2002.
  • North Carolina Agricultural Consultants Association-Distinguished Service Award - 2002
  • North Carolina Soil & Water Conservation Society-2002 Professional Achievement Award - Water Quality.

Recent Publications

  1. Maguire, R.O. D. A. Crouse, and S. C. Hodges. 2007. Diet Modification to Reduce Phosphorus Surpluses: A Mass Balance Approach. JEQ 36:1235-1240.
  2. Hodges, S.C. and Greg Constable. 2007(in press). Plant Responses to mineral nutrient deficiencies and toxicities. In Oosterhuis and Steward (ed) Cotton Physiology. Kluwer Press.
  3. Maguire, S. C. Hodges and D. A. Crouse. 2007. Sampling Techniques for Nutrient Analysis of Animal Manures. in Methods of Phosphorus Analysis. SERA-17.
  4. P Loss Assessment Tool Committee (David Crouse, Wendell Gilliam, John Havlin, Steve Hodges, Amy Johnson, Eugene Kamprath, Rory Maguire, Robert Mikkelsen, Nathan Nelson, Deanna Osmond (Soil Science Department, NC State University); Robert Evans, John Parsons, Wayne Skaggs, Phil Westerman (Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, NC State University); David Hardy and Richard Reich (NCDA & CS); Steve Coffey and Carroll Pierce (NCDENR-DSWC); and Roger Hansard, and Lane Price (USDA-NRCS). 2005. North Carolina Phosphorus Loss Assessment: I. Model description and II. Scientific Basis and supporting literature. NC Agricultural Research Service. NC State Univ. Raleigh, NC. Tech. Bull. 323.90 pp. link to pdf (verified 2007-08-29)
  5. Johnson A., D. Osmond and S.C. Hodges. 2005. Predicted Impact and Evaluation of North Carolina's Phosphorus Indexing Tool. JEQ 34:1801-1810.
  6. Osmond, D.L., D.A. Crouse, S.C. Hodges, A.M. Johnson, and K.J. May. 2004. NCANAT: North Carolina Agricultural Nutrient Assessment Tool, Version 1.34. NC State University. Raleigh, NC. ( http://www.soil.ncsu.edu/nmp/ncnmwg/ (verified 2008-08-29)
  7. Hodges, S.C. 2001. Soil Management Groups for North Carolina. Soil Science Extension. NC State University. http://www.soil.ncsu.edu/nmp/SMG_Final_2000.pdf (verified 2008-08-29)
  8. Kamprath, E.J., D. Beegle, S.C. Hodges, B.C. Joern, A.P. Mallarino, J.T. Sims, A.M. Wolf. 2000. Relevance of Soil Testing to Agriculture and the Environment. Issue Paper No. 15. Council on Agriculture, Science and Technology. Ames, IA.
  9. Hodges, S.C., D.A. Crouse, J. Barker, K. Shaffer, D. Osmond. 1999. North Carolina Nutrient Management Manual. Soil Science Extension. NC State University. 315 pp.

Personal Activities and Interests

Some Favorite Quotations

"And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it." Genesis 2:15 (Young's Literal Translation)

"The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all." - Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America, 1977

"We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot." - Leonardo da Vinci

"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery and the other that heat comes from the furnace." - Aldo Leopold

"Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver' s Travels, 1726

"While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil." - Thomas Jefferson

"We are part of the earth and it is part of us... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth" - Chief Seattle, 1852

My Work Groups

Keywords

  • Crops
  • Genomics
  • Soils
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Extension