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

来自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群如何受到不同农业实践的影响。该奖项得到了生物科学理事会、地质科学理事会和社会、行为和经济科学理事会的支持。拟议的工作将结合各种农业实践的农业用地土壤微生物组的现代遗传测量。在这项工作中提出的研究的目的是帮助制定可持续农业方法的努力。索曼将与伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校自然资源与环境科学系的安吉拉·肯特教授以及俄克拉荷马大学环境基因组学研究所副所长何志立教授合作。这项工作还将包括：农业和消费经济系的Amy Ando教授；自然资源与环境科学系Richard Mulvaney教授；以及伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校农业与生物工程系的路易斯·罗德里格斯教授。该项目由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）计划支持，其目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在see研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续性相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的职业生涯。

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.