PSPA Members are invited to the next Luncheon meeting on March 2, 2017, at the Union League of Philadelphia. March’s topic will be Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change with Regenerative Organic Agriculture. Kristine Nichols, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Rodale Institute, will discuss implementing widely available and inexpensive regenerative organic management practices that allow farms to maintain and even enhance productivity under climatic uncertainty by utilizing the resiliency of internal biological systems. Dr. Nichols will explain how we may sequester more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions while capitalizing on the efficiencies of biological systems in crop and grazing lands.
More about Dr. Kristine Nichols, Chief Scientist
Dr. Kristine Nichols examines the impacts of management such as crop rotation, tillage practices, organic production, cover crops, and livestock grazing on soil aggregation, water relationships, and glomalin at the Institute. She received a Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology and in Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Minnesota, a Masters in Environmental Microbiology from West Virginia University, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of Maryland. Dr. Nichols has worked as a Soil Microbiologist with the USDA for over 14 years, the first three in Beltsville, MD and then at Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory (NGPRL) in Mandan, ND for the next 11 years.