Kirsten Butcher joined the NDSU staff as an assistant professor of soil health this past year. She received her undergraduate biology and environmental science degree from St Louis University and a Masters degree from NDSU in soil salinity. After NDSU, Butcher obtained her PhD in carbon and nitrate cycling from Utah State before returning to NDSU as a staff member. Her focus is on researching soil organic matter and carbon sequestration. “The idea is how can we add good carbon to the soil that gets sequestered and then what is the storage capacity of different soils?”
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