Phone: 607-255-5629
Email: hmv1@cornell.edu

Harold van Es is a Professor of Soil and Water Management with extension, research and teaching duties. He works on approaches to precision soil management, with a current emphasis on a holistic soil health management framework. Harold leads research in several long-term (20+ years) tillage experiments to evaluate the long-term impact of tillage practices and cover crops on soil health and water quality (among other research projects).

Phone: 607-255-4964
Email: mrr232@cornell.edu
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Matthew Ryan is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Cropping Systems in the Section of Soil and Crop Sciences at Cornell University. He works with farmers, students, and other scientists to evaluate cropping system performance in terms of crop yield, profitability, environmental impact, and resilience.

Email: jpa28@cornell.edu

Joseph Amsili is an extension associate and program coordinator with the Cornell Soil Health Program and New York Soil Health Initiative. He works to coordinate and support soil health extension activities across New York State, including the Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Day series and the NY Soil Health Specialist Training Series. In 2020, Joseph and others completed the Characterization of Soil Health in NYS Reports, and is working on efforts to conduct more regional analyses. He is currently working on assessing soil organic carbon sequestration rates at four long-term tillage and cropping systems experiments across New York State.

Focus areas: field crops, dairy, pasture, vegetables, cover crops

Email: da352@cornell.edu

Debbie Aller is an extension associate and program coordinator with the New York Soil Health initiative. She  conducts and coordinates extension and applied research activities across NYS that support and improve soil health. She brings her expertise working with vegetable, fruit, and nursery growers to implement sustainable soil management practices and has an in-depth research background in biochar and other organic amendments.

Focus areas: orchards/vineyards, urban ag, vegetables/horticulture crops, biochar/soil amendments

Email: kal52@cornell.edu

Kristen Loria is an extension support specialist in the Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab at Cornell University. She helps lead extension efforts for the lab, which include coordinating farmer advisory groups, on-farm and farmer-led research, as well as outreach events such as workshops and field days. She also helps manage and execute field experiments related to the lab’s work on regional dry bean production and organic no-till systems.

Focus areas: pulse crops, agronomics of diversified field cropping systems, open-source farm technologies and participatory research methodologies

Phone: 607-227-6055
Email: rrs3@cornell.edu

Bob Schindelbeck oversees the operations and the development of new analytic offerings at the Cornell Soil Health Laboratory. He has been part of the Cornell Soil Health Team’s development of soil management strategies to address laboratory-measured soil constraints since 2003. Bob delivers extension presentations across the state on comprehensive soil health testing and on soil health management planning. He also conducts research on changes in soil physical and biological properties in long-term tillage experiments.