Michael Russelle Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., Agronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1982; Title: The fate and influence of banded fertilizer nitrogen in irrigated maize.

M.S., Crop Science, Oregon State University, 1978; Title: Soil moisture and temperature relationships under fallow in eastern Oregon.

B.S., Agronomy, Oregon State University, 1976

USEPA Biotechnology Science Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Premanufacture Notification Review of Nitrogen Fixing Rhizobium meliloti, January 1995.

ARS representative to NCR-183, Utilization of Animal Manure and Other Organic Wastes in Agriculture, 1995-present.

Member, National Research Initiative-Competitive Grants Program ecosystems grant review panel, February 1997.

Member of the A435 Agronomic Achievement Committee, American Society of Agronomy, 1997-1999.

President, University of Minnesota Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1997-1998.

Chair, Division S-4, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, Soil Science Society of America, 1999-2001.

Philip C. Hamm Memorial Lecture Committee, Univ. of Minnesota, 2000-present.

Frequently serve as reviewer of grant proposals for NRI-CGP, BARD, NSF, NASA, Swiss National Fund, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, USDA-ARS CRIS projects, North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture and Extension program, Regional Research Committees, and University of Minnesota Experiment Station projects.

Provide anonymous peer reviews of manuscripts submitted to a variety of professional journals.

Serve as advisor to several graduate students in six departments. Serve as a Science Fair judge in local, regional, state levels and for the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

1982 to present in current position.