EDUCATION
Ph.D. Soil Fertility , 1980. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
RESEARCH
Effect of Conservation Tillage/Long-Term Management and Land Use on Soil and Water
Quality; Environmental Monitoring; Remediation of Contaminated Soils; Soil Enzymes and
Nutrient Cycling.
Current Research Project:
BEHAVIOR OF SELECTED SURFACTANTS IN SOIL: INTERACTIONS WITH PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL PROPERTIES.
The objectives of this project are:
1. Study the changes in soil microbial consortia as affected by different surfactants.
Knowledge of the natural evolution of microorganisms in the soil will be crucial to successful study of the fate of these chemicals and possible bioremediation design schemes.
2. Determine the effect of different surfactants on plant nutrient uptake.
This objective will investigate the possible interactions of surfactants with macro-and micronutrient uptake by plants.
3. Measure the activities of enzymes involved in the cycling of C, N, P and S in the presence of different surfactants.
Surfactants can interact with microbial enzyme activity, stability and/or specificity to positively or negatively affecting their role in nutrient cycling and fertility in the soil environment.
4. Determine the impacts of soil physicochemical properties (e.g, pH, CEC, free Fe and Al- oxides, organic C, particle size distribution) on sorption of surfactants in soils.
The most effective method of application of surfactants to soil would depend, in part, upon the adsorption isotherms of the surfactant by the soil.
ENV 103 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENV 104 Introduction to Environmental Science Lab
AGR 211 Introduction to Soils
AGR 309 Environmental Soil Chemistry
AGR 324 Soil Amendments and Environmental Quality
AGR 404 Crop Systems
AGR 414 Soil and Water Conservation and Management
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Eivazi, F. 2008. Point Source Pesticide Degradation Using “Biobed” Method. J. Comm. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. (in press).
F. Ponder, and Eivazi, F. 2008. Activities of five enzymes following soil disturbance and weed control in a Missouri forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry (in press).
Paro, R, , Nsalambi V. Nkongolo1, Shane Johnson, and Frieda Eivazi. 2007. Spatial variability of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes and soil thermal properties of a secondary forest soil in central Missouri. Journal of Environmental Monitoring & Restoration 3: 42-52.
Johnson, S., N.V. Nkongolo, R. Paro and F. Eivazi. 2007. Spatial Variability of Soil Thermal Properties and CO2, CH4 and N2O Emissions from a Pasture in Central Missouri. JEMREST 3:314-322.
Johnson, S. Nkongolo, N.V., Paro, R. and F. Eivazi. 2007. Mapping CO2, CH4 and N2O Emissions and Soil Thermal Properties from a Pasture in Missouri. In Conference Program, 2007 Missouri GIS Conference, p. 30.
Eivazi, F., M. R. Bayan, and K. Schmidt. 2003. Select soil enzyme activities in the historic Sanborn field as affected by long-term cropping systems. Comm. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. Vol. 34 Nos. 15 &16, pp.2259-2275.
Eivazi, F., and M.R. Bayan. 2001. Effect of long-term fertilization and cropping systems on selected soil enzyme activities. Plant Nutrition-Food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems. 686-687.
