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Herika Kümmel
Graduate Student
Agroecology Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1575 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1597
Tel. 608.890.0268, Fax 608.262.5217
Email: hkummel@wisc.edu
:: Education ::
B.S. Food
Engineering. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1996.
B.S. Agricultural Science.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 2005.
:: Research ::
I am seeking to improve
understanding of ecosystem support, provisioning, and regulating services
provided by pasture ecosystems in the Upper Midwest. Collaborating with
one grass-based bison rancher and the Wisconsin Cropping Systems Trial, I
am evaluating forage quantity and quality as well as C sequestration
potential under a gradient of C3 to C4 grass ratios.
This work intends to provide
much needed understanding about C3 pastures and the benefits of
re-storing native grasses to working lands. As a long-term outcome, the
results of this project should promote land stewardship by blending
management for livestock production with conservation techniques. Once
the environmental and agronomic benefits of incorporating native, C4
grasses into C3-dominated pastures are better understood and documented,
farmers will be more likely to adopt such practices.
:: Work Experience ::
In Agronomy:
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Agronomy
Department at UW- Madison, WI.
(Summer 05) Full-time summer lab
and field work position. Focus: fertilizer application; hay
sampling; weed seedlings and weed identification; aphid sampling in
soybean field; grass and wetlands species identification.
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Agronomy
Department at UW- Madison, WI. (Fall 04 to Spring 05) Part-time
fall and spring lab work position. Focus: lab work and database entry.
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Agronomy
Department at UW- Madison, WI. (Summer 04) Full-time summer lab and
field work position. Focus: weed pressure due to manure application
including soils, weeds and forage sampling, research trials set up, and
team work experience.
:: Posters /
Honors ::
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Botany
Honors project on Plants Nutrient Requirements.
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Poster
presented at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA 97th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake
City,UT:
“Weed Seed Bank Changes in Chemical-Free Corn
Production Systems of The Upper Midwest: Results From The First 15 Years.”
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Special
topics study: “Weed seed bank community
changes on the Wisconsin
Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST): 1992-2004.”
:: Interests and
Activities ::
Interests in agronomy
include: environmental friendly
agriculture, renewable energy, multifunctionality of the landscape, pasture
systems, agro forestry, rural sociology.
Other interests include: equality and peace, food for all,
cooking, gardening, snowboarding, hiking, anything involving water such
as water skiing, sea kayaking, scuba diving, natural hydro massage under
waterfalls (my favorite), dancing and gathering under the sun or moon to
celebrate life and friendship.
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