Here some recent photos of me. One is just me in the lab, one is me pontificating about sustainable agriculture and soil microbiology at a field day, one is me with 3 of my heroes: John Doran, Wendell Berry, and Wes Jackson. “The Kiss” is me and my hubby last New Year’s eve. I’ve been relatively happily married over 16 years. No kids, 4 dogs, 2 cats, about a dozen chickens and most recently some ducks.
So I’m a soil microbiologist now. Here is my main website: http://css.wsu.edu/people/faculty/soils/lcbweb.html I administer a grants program of ~400K annual, work to better integrate agricultural research, outreach, and education at Washington State University with what producers really need, and run a posse of grad students with projects that all have something to do with improving agricultural sustainability through Organic or Biologically-Intensive methods. I am proud to have received recognition as an Outstanding Mentor at WSU each of the last 3 yrs.
My biggest news lately is that I spent 10 days in Jordan this summer. I was in a team of 4 WSU women (1 was a PhD student of mine from Lebanon) who met with 26 Iraqi women agricultural extension agents to provide training in sustainable agriculture and food safety. Overall, a truly amazing and fabulous trip. We met wonderful wonderful people among both the Jordanians and Iraqis. We were all surprised how close we became in a short time. As you might imagine, Iraqis are living in a tumultuous time and have much to share. Yet they generally like Americans. One Jordanian explained “Americans have the best hearts – sometimes too good. They always think they’re doing things for the right reasons.” http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=12744&PageID=&ReferrerCode=uggc%3A%2F%2Fjjj%2Ejfhgbqnl%2Ejfh%2Erqh%2Fcntrf%2Ffrnepu%2Enfc
So I’m a soil microbiologist now. Here is my main website: http://css.wsu.edu/people/faculty/soils/lcbweb.html I administer a grants program of ~400K annual, work to better integrate agricultural research, outreach, and education at Washington State University with what producers really need, and run a posse of grad students with projects that all have something to do with improving agricultural sustainability through Organic or Biologically-Intensive methods. I am proud to have received recognition as an Outstanding Mentor at WSU each of the last 3 yrs.
My biggest news lately is that I spent 10 days in Jordan this summer. I was in a team of 4 WSU women (1 was a PhD student of mine from Lebanon) who met with 26 Iraqi women agricultural extension agents to provide training in sustainable agriculture and food safety. Overall, a truly amazing and fabulous trip. We met wonderful wonderful people among both the Jordanians and Iraqis. We were all surprised how close we became in a short time. As you might imagine, Iraqis are living in a tumultuous time and have much to share. Yet they generally like Americans. One Jordanian explained “Americans have the best hearts – sometimes too good. They always think they’re doing things for the right reasons.” http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=12744&PageID=&ReferrerCode=uggc%3A%2F%2Fjjj%2Ejfhgbqnl%2Ejfh%2Erqh%2Fcntrf%2Ffrnepu%2Enfc
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