UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE

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Education (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education and include postdoctoral training)

2. Professional Experience (Beginning with present position, list employment by title, affiliation, and dates in last 10 years)

1994- Professor and Chairperson, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University

1968-94 Professor of Soil Chemistry, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University

3. Teaching Experience (Cite titles and summary catalog descriptions of undergraduate and graduate level courses for which you have had primary responsibility for teaching in last 5 years)

CSS 430 (3 cr) Soil Fertility and Fertilizers - Diagnosing fertility status of soils by soil analysis and plant deficiency symptoms. Liming and fertilization with macro- and micronutrients and transformation of nutrients in soils. Fertilizer manufacture technology and use.

CSS 455 (3 cr) Pollutants in the Soil Environment - Chemical and biological reactions of organic and inorganic pollutants in soils.

CSS 812 (2-9 cr) Advanced Topics: Micronutrients, Soil Chemistry, Tropical Soil Management - Topics will be selected from physiology of herbicides, micronutrients, advanced soil physics, advanced soil chemistry.

CSS 850 (3 cr) Soil Chemistry - Chemistry of mineral weathering and soil formation, ion activities, ionic exchange and equilibrium reactions, soil p/h, specific elements and their chemical analysis, and availability of nutrients to plans.

4. Research Interests:Nitrate, Phosphorus, and heavy metal movement in soil.

5. Thesis Committees Chaired (Cite titles and dates of Master's and doctoral theses completed or in progress by graduate students for whom you served as committee chair in last 5 years)

Mtonga, B., M.S., 1991, Comparison of Calcium Carbonate and Calcium Sulfate in Reducing Aluminum Toxicity to Maize.

Zekeng, P., Ph.D., 1992, Factors Affecting Nutrient Release From Animal Manures.

Remus, K., M.S., 1996, The Relationship of Soil Series to Phosphorus Adsorption Capacity of Soils.

Goni, C., M.S., 1996, Use of DRIS System to Predict Nutrient Deficiencies in Pear Trees.

Daroub, S., Ph.D., 1996, Cycling of Organic Phosphates in Soils.

6. Grants (Cite title, amount, source, and period of support for research and teaching/instructional projects directed or co- directed in last 10 years)

Dr. Ellis has directed or co-directed research and/or teaching/instrucitonal/demonstration projects which received $4,054,369 in support over the last 10 years and a total of $5,179,340 since beginning his faculty appointment at Michigan State University in 1961. See Appendix 4 for more detailed information relative to individual projects, their sponsors and the level of financial support.

7. Professional Honors (Last 10 years)

Associate Editor, SSSA Journal, 1980-86

Budget and Finance Committee, SSSA, 1985-87

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1986

Board of Trustees, Agronomic Science Foundation

Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, 1989

8. Publications (List in chronological order the titles and complete references for printed publications in last 5 years)

Smucker, A.J.M., B.G. Ellis and B.T. Kang. 1993. Root, nutrient and water dynamics in alley cropping on an alfisol in forest savanna transition zone. Proceedings of Conference on Alley Cropping. IITA, September, 1992.

Robertson, G.P., J.R. Crum, F.J. Pierce and B.G. Ellis. 1993. Spatial variability of soil resources in a cultivated vs. never-tilled plant community. Oecologia 96:451-456.

Remus, K., B.G. Ellis and D. Mokma. 1994. The Relationship of Soil Series to Phosphorus Adsorption Capacity in Michigan Soils. Agronomy Abstracts.

Daroub, S. and B.G. Ellis. 1994. The Effect of Tillage on Phosphorus Transformations from ³³P Labeled Plant Residues Added to Soils. Agronomy Abstracts.

Daroub, S., B.G. Ellis and G.P. robertson. 1996. Soil Phosphorus Fractions under Non-Chemical Input Row Crops. Agronomy Abstracts

Robertson, G. Philip, K.M. Klingensmith, M.J. Klug, E.A. Paul, J.R. Crum and B.G. Ellis. 1997. Soil Resources, Microbial Activity, and Primary Production across an Agricultural Eco System. Ecological Applications 7 (1): 158-170.