SEES Fellows: Soil Microbiomes and Agricultural Sustainability: An Integrated Metagenomic and Economic Investigation

在NSF科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）的这个奖项中，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的Chinmay Soman博士将研究土壤微生物组如何受到不同农业实践的影响。 该奖项得到了以下机构的支持：生物科学局、地质科学局和社会、行为和经济科学局。拟议的工作将结合联合收割机的现代遗传测量的土壤微生物的农田受到各种农业实践。这项工作中提出的此类研究的目的是帮助为开发可持续农业方法提供信息。Soman博士将与伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校自然资源和环境科学系的Angela肯特教授以及合作者合作。俄克拉荷马州大学环境基因组学研究所副所长何志立教授。 这项工作还将包括以下人员的努力：农业和消费者经济学系的Amy Ando教授;自然资源和环境科学系的Richard Mulvaney教授;和农业和生物工程系的Luis Rodriguez教授，他们都在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校。这个项目得到了美国国家科学基金会科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program), Dr. Chinmay Soman from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will investigate how the soil microbiome is influenced by different kinds of agricultural practices. This award has support from: the Directorate for Biological Sciences, the Directorate for Geological Sciences, and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. The proposed work will combine modern genetic measurements of the soil microbiomes of agricultural land subject to a variety of agricultural practices. The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to help inform efforts to develop methods for sustainable agriculture.Dr. Soman will be working with collaborators Prof. Angela Kent of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as Prof. Zhili He, Associate Director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma. The work will also include the efforts of: Prof. Amy Ando with the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics; Prof. Richard Mulvaney with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; and Prof. Luis Rodriguez with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.