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Recipients of 2021 AGE Editor's Citation for Excellence Named

Recipients of 2021 AGE Editor's Citation for Excellence Named The Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment editorial board is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Associate Editor Excellence Award and the Editor's Citation for Excellence in Review. These awards recognize the outstanding professional commitment and dedication of volunteer editors and reviewers who, through their excellent insights and comments, have helped maintain the high standard and quality of papers published in the journal. Recipients were nominated based on their thorough, competent, and timely reviews or editing of manuscripts. Each will receive a certificate of appreciation, an ASA–CSSA–SSSA gift certificate, and recognition in CSA News.ASSOCIATE EDITOR EXCELLENCE AWARDJosh McGrathJosh McGrath, associate professor at the University of Kentucky, has served as an extension specialist at UK (2014–present) and the University of Maryland (2006–2014), where he established an integrated research and extension program focused on developing, teaching, and implementing management practices that increase farm efficiency while protecting natural resources. He built his reputation through a robust on‐farm, applied research program in cooperation with farmers and policy makers. Dr. McGrath speaks throughout the U.S. and internationally about nutrient management, soil fertility, and environmental stewardship. He has served in leadership roles for both the Agronomy and Soil Science Societies of America and on the editorial boards of multiple journals. Dr. McGrath received the Agronomic Education and Extension Award in 2019 from the American Society of Agronomy. Born and raised in Smyrna, DE, Dr. McGrath earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware; he conducted post‐doctoral research at Virginia Tech. When not talking about or researching soil fertility Josh enjoys spending time with his wife Kimberly and their dog Wendell, hunting, and fishing and has been a volunteer firefighter for over 30 years. The photo here shows Josh with Bill Raun (left), a friend and mentor who persuaded Josh to begin editing for AGE.Amir IbrahimDr. Amir M.H. Ibrahim is a Regents Professor and the project leader of the Small Grains Breeding program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He joined the faculty of the Soil and Crop Sciences Department at TAMU in 2007. His responsibilities include management of wheat cultivar development for South, Central, and Northeast Texas as well as oat cultivars for the entire state. Other responsibilities include graduate student training and conducting research relevant to wheat and oats genetic improvement. Dr. Ibrahim released and co‐released 30 wheat and three oat cultivars. Previously he worked for South Dakota State University from 2000 to 2007 as an Assistant and Associate Professor and for Colorado State University (CSU) as a postdoctoral research associate from 1998 to 2000. He also received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from CSU in 1998. Dr. Ibrahim's work relies on a statewide collaborative team approach that includes breeders, molecular geneticists, bioinformacists, pathologists, physiologists, agronomists, economists, and end‐use quality specialists. He also collaborates closely with USDA‐ARS scientists at Lincoln, NE; Manhattan, KS; Fargo, ND; Raleigh, NC; and Wooster, OH, and with public and private wheat breeders across the U.S. Great Plains and the Gulf‐Atlantic regions. Dr. Ibrahim also collaborates with scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Dr. Ibrahim is currently involved in international collaborative research in Africa, Central Asia, East Europe, and South America. His current research interests include mapping of genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, end‐use quality characteristics, germplasm diversity and genetic distance, yield per se, and synthetic wheat. Dr. Ibrahim has a large program on UAS applications for high throughput phenotyping. He has mentored or is mentoring 40 international graduate students and four post‐doctorates from 11 different countries. Dr. Ibrahim has authored or co‐authored 328 publications, including 128 referred journal articles, 40 extension papers, 116 proceedings/abstracts, 2 book chapters, 11 technical reports, and 34 popular press articles. He contributed to the procurement of US$43,300,415 in competitive funding with US$5,581,481 going to his individual program. Dr. Ibrahim is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America and Past President of Texas Plant Protection Association. Dr. Ibrahim is also the Director of Texas A&M AgriLife AgriGenomics Laboratory and Chair of the National Wheat Improvement Committee for the U.S. Great Plains. He teaches a graduate level course in “Experimental Designs in Agriculture” and an undergraduate course in “Crop Stress Management.”Paul DeLauneDr. Paul DeLaune is a professor of environmental soil science at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Vernon, an off‐campus research and extension center, in the Texas A&M University Soil and Crop Sciences Department. His primary research objective is to protect water resources while maintaining agricultural production goals. Research topics include evaluating tillage, irrigation, and crop rotation options in water limited cropping systems to improve nutrient and water use efficiencies, enhance soil function, and improve agronomic and economic returns. Specifically, Dr. DeLaune has become a leading expert in cover crop management and integrated crop‐livestock systems in water limited environments.EDITOR'S CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWQuingwu XueDr. Qingwu Xue is a professor, Regents Fellow, and Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Amarillo. His research program focuses on crop physiology, abiotic stress, drought tolerance, and water management strategies for major crops in the Texas High Plains—corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton, potato, and more recently vegetables. His research activities include understanding physiological and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance, identifying plant traits conferring stress tolerance, understanding the interactions of abiotic and biotic stresses, evaluating and developing field phenotyping tools, and developing management strategies under stress conditions. Dr. Xue is an active member of the ASA‐CSSA‐SSSA, where he has served as a member of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Committee (2012–2013), chair and member of the Tengtou Agricultural Science Award Committee (ASA, 2012–2013), and vice leader and leader of the U.S.‐Sino Agricultural Research Forum Community (ASA, 2014–2015, 2019‐2020). He served the secretary/vice‐president/president of the Association of Chinese Soil and Plant Scientists in North America (ACSPSNA) from 2014 to 2016. Currently, he is the associate editor of Crop Science and leader of Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management Community (ASA).Gokul PaudelGokul Paudel is an agricultural economist who has worked with CIMMYT Socioeconomics Program in Nepal. His areas of expertise include impact assessment, farm mechanization, climate change impacts, conservation agriculture, technical efficiency, non‐market valuation, data mining, and machine learning. Gokul is currently doing research with One CGIAR—International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Leibniz University Hannover (LUH).Michel CavigelliMichel A. Cavigelli is Research Soil Scientist at the USDA‐ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, MD. He received a B.A from Oberlin College, M.S. from Kansas State University, Ph.D. from Michigan State University, and is an ASA Fellow. As Lead Scientist of a large, multidisciplinary research project, he leads a team of scientists evaluating impacts of existing and innovative management practices on long‐term agronomic, economic, and environmental sustainability. He is lead author on seminal papers comparing organic with conventional production methods and documenting agronomic, economic, and environmental benefits of integrating perennial crops into annual grain crop rotations. His work on multiscale factors regulating soil N2O emissions has produced seminal papers on linking soil microbial community structure and function and has resulted in his selection on expert panels, and as lead and co‐author on numerous synthetic papers, chapters, and government reports. He is a co‐Lead of the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and has leadership roles in three cross‐site long‐term research networks: the USDA‐ARS led LTAR Network, the NIFA‐funded DRIVES Network, and the Northeast Climate Hub Economics of Soil Health Network. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment" Wiley

Recipients of 2021 AGE Editor's Citation for Excellence Named

"Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment" , Volume 5 (2) – Jan 1, 2022

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The Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment editorial board is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Associate Editor Excellence Award and the Editor's Citation for Excellence in Review. These awards recognize the outstanding professional commitment and dedication of volunteer editors and reviewers who, through their excellent insights and comments, have helped maintain the high standard and quality of papers published in the journal. Recipients were nominated based on their thorough, competent, and timely reviews or editing of manuscripts. Each will receive a certificate of appreciation, an ASA–CSSA–SSSA gift certificate, and recognition in CSA News.ASSOCIATE EDITOR EXCELLENCE AWARDJosh McGrathJosh McGrath, associate professor at the University of Kentucky, has served as an extension specialist at UK (2014–present) and the University of Maryland (2006–2014), where he established an integrated research and extension program focused on developing, teaching, and implementing management practices that increase farm efficiency while protecting natural resources. He built his reputation through a robust on‐farm, applied research program in cooperation with farmers and policy makers. Dr. McGrath speaks throughout the U.S. and internationally about nutrient management, soil fertility, and environmental stewardship. He has served in leadership roles for both the Agronomy and Soil Science Societies of America and on the editorial boards of multiple journals. Dr. McGrath received the Agronomic Education and Extension Award in 2019 from the American Society of Agronomy. Born and raised in Smyrna, DE, Dr. McGrath earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware; he conducted post‐doctoral research at Virginia Tech. When not talking about or researching soil fertility Josh enjoys spending time with his wife Kimberly and their dog Wendell, hunting, and fishing and has been a volunteer firefighter for over 30 years. The photo here shows Josh with Bill Raun (left), a friend and mentor who persuaded Josh to begin editing for AGE.Amir IbrahimDr. Amir M.H. Ibrahim is a Regents Professor and the project leader of the Small Grains Breeding program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He joined the faculty of the Soil and Crop Sciences Department at TAMU in 2007. His responsibilities include management of wheat cultivar development for South, Central, and Northeast Texas as well as oat cultivars for the entire state. Other responsibilities include graduate student training and conducting research relevant to wheat and oats genetic improvement. Dr. Ibrahim released and co‐released 30 wheat and three oat cultivars. Previously he worked for South Dakota State University from 2000 to 2007 as an Assistant and Associate Professor and for Colorado State University (CSU) as a postdoctoral research associate from 1998 to 2000. He also received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from CSU in 1998. Dr. Ibrahim's work relies on a statewide collaborative team approach that includes breeders, molecular geneticists, bioinformacists, pathologists, physiologists, agronomists, economists, and end‐use quality specialists. He also collaborates closely with USDA‐ARS scientists at Lincoln, NE; Manhattan, KS; Fargo, ND; Raleigh, NC; and Wooster, OH, and with public and private wheat breeders across the U.S. Great Plains and the Gulf‐Atlantic regions. Dr. Ibrahim also collaborates with scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Dr. Ibrahim is currently involved in international collaborative research in Africa, Central Asia, East Europe, and South America. His current research interests include mapping of genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, end‐use quality characteristics, germplasm diversity and genetic distance, yield per se, and synthetic wheat. Dr. Ibrahim has a large program on UAS applications for high throughput phenotyping. He has mentored or is mentoring 40 international graduate students and four post‐doctorates from 11 different countries. Dr. Ibrahim has authored or co‐authored 328 publications, including 128 referred journal articles, 40 extension papers, 116 proceedings/abstracts, 2 book chapters, 11 technical reports, and 34 popular press articles. He contributed to the procurement of US$43,300,415 in competitive funding with US$5,581,481 going to his individual program. Dr. Ibrahim is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America and Past President of Texas Plant Protection Association. Dr. Ibrahim is also the Director of Texas A&M AgriLife AgriGenomics Laboratory and Chair of the National Wheat Improvement Committee for the U.S. Great Plains. He teaches a graduate level course in “Experimental Designs in Agriculture” and an undergraduate course in “Crop Stress Management.”Paul DeLauneDr. Paul DeLaune is a professor of environmental soil science at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Vernon, an off‐campus research and extension center, in the Texas A&M University Soil and Crop Sciences Department. His primary research objective is to protect water resources while maintaining agricultural production goals. Research topics include evaluating tillage, irrigation, and crop rotation options in water limited cropping systems to improve nutrient and water use efficiencies, enhance soil function, and improve agronomic and economic returns. Specifically, Dr. DeLaune has become a leading expert in cover crop management and integrated crop‐livestock systems in water limited environments.EDITOR'S CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWQuingwu XueDr. Qingwu Xue is a professor, Regents Fellow, and Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Amarillo. His research program focuses on crop physiology, abiotic stress, drought tolerance, and water management strategies for major crops in the Texas High Plains—corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton, potato, and more recently vegetables. His research activities include understanding physiological and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance, identifying plant traits conferring stress tolerance, understanding the interactions of abiotic and biotic stresses, evaluating and developing field phenotyping tools, and developing management strategies under stress conditions. Dr. Xue is an active member of the ASA‐CSSA‐SSSA, where he has served as a member of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Committee (2012–2013), chair and member of the Tengtou Agricultural Science Award Committee (ASA, 2012–2013), and vice leader and leader of the U.S.‐Sino Agricultural Research Forum Community (ASA, 2014–2015, 2019‐2020). He served the secretary/vice‐president/president of the Association of Chinese Soil and Plant Scientists in North America (ACSPSNA) from 2014 to 2016. Currently, he is the associate editor of Crop Science and leader of Crop Irrigation Strategies and Management Community (ASA).Gokul PaudelGokul Paudel is an agricultural economist who has worked with CIMMYT Socioeconomics Program in Nepal. His areas of expertise include impact assessment, farm mechanization, climate change impacts, conservation agriculture, technical efficiency, non‐market valuation, data mining, and machine learning. Gokul is currently doing research with One CGIAR—International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Leibniz University Hannover (LUH).Michel CavigelliMichel A. Cavigelli is Research Soil Scientist at the USDA‐ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, MD. He received a B.A from Oberlin College, M.S. from Kansas State University, Ph.D. from Michigan State University, and is an ASA Fellow. As Lead Scientist of a large, multidisciplinary research project, he leads a team of scientists evaluating impacts of existing and innovative management practices on long‐term agronomic, economic, and environmental sustainability. He is lead author on seminal papers comparing organic with conventional production methods and documenting agronomic, economic, and environmental benefits of integrating perennial crops into annual grain crop rotations. His work on multiscale factors regulating soil N2O emissions has produced seminal papers on linking soil microbial community structure and function and has resulted in his selection on expert panels, and as lead and co‐author on numerous synthetic papers, chapters, and government reports. He is a co‐Lead of the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and has leadership roles in three cross‐site long‐term research networks: the USDA‐ARS led LTAR Network, the NIFA‐funded DRIVES Network, and the Northeast Climate Hub Economics of Soil Health Network.

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