Habitat Conservation
Assistance Network
Proactive Conservation for Working Lands

Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead-Peterson’s research focuses on carbon and nutrient dynamics in urban and rural soil, runoff and surface water. I am a PI on the Scotts Company/Texas A & M (24 plot) runoff research facility where I have examined runoff carbon and nutrient concentrations and exports from warm-season turfgrass under fertilization, wetting agent and deficit irrigation treatments. Other work has investigated extractable soil nutrients in Texas and Ghana under tillage and cropping treatments; and iron and zinc for sorghum in Mali.  The investigation of carbon and nutrients released from decomposing mammals (mainly humans) with a view to estimating post-mortem interval is a relatively new field; decomposing mammals introduce another source of carbon and nutrients into the soil environment which is under researched.

Water Resources Program Areas:     

• Aquatic Ecosystems
• Groundwater and Surface Water Supplies
• Water Management for Range and Forest Lands
• Water Quality and Watershed Protection

Expertise:     

• Water nutrient management;
• Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous cycling in water;
• Loss of nutrients to surface water under different land uses.

Contact Jacqueline Aitkenhead-Peterson

Listed as:

• Consultants - Land