Sean Michael Schaeffer, Ph.D.

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Sean


Associate Professor
  Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
  
Office: 207 Biosys Eng Soil Sci Office
Phone: (865) 974-7366
Email: sschaef5@utk.edu
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Focus: Biogeochemistry

Responsibilities
  • Coupled carbon and nitrogen cycles
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Climate change
  • Soil ecology
Educational & Research Programs
  • Drought biogeochemistry in rangelands
  • Soil carbon and nutrient retention in agroecosystems
  • Soil carbon stability in Arctic ecosystems

Courses
  • ESS 601 Special Topics: Stable Isotope Techniques
  • ESS 515 Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
  • ESS 512 Pedology
  • ESS 442 Soil Genesis and Classification

Biographical sketch

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Recent Publications

Education

Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2005
M.S., University of Arizona, 1998

News
​Tennessee Students Win National Soil Judging Competition​