Dr. Kathryn Radicke-Vanderburg

Part time instructor / adjunct professor, Rangeland Ecology

West Texas A&M University / Purdue Global University/ Unity College

55 Jynteewood cir.
Canyon, TX 79015
United States

(w) (832) 221-3703

About

Kathryn Radicke just finished her Doctorate of Philosophy in August, 2020 at Texas Tech University. She is currently a part-time adjunct faculty teaching various subjects in biology, nutrition, and ecology for West Texas A&M University and Purdue Global University. Her research at Texas Tech University embodied a full systems approach to research really focusing on environmental issues in the scientific community. Her dissertation was funded by various USDA and SSARE grants and was titled; "Effect of the Inclusion of Legumes Within Perennial Grasses on Water Footprint, Economic Value, and Methane Emission." Her dissertation included results of this research on soil health, which was an extension of the results of her masters research, which was published in Rangeland Ecology and Management (Vanderburg, Kathryn, T.J. Steffens, D.G. Lust, M.B. Rhoades, B.C. Blaser, K. Peters, and M.J. Ham. 2020. Trampling and cover effects on soil compaction and seedling establishment in reseeded pasturelands over time. Rangeland Ecology & Management). Her future research interests include focusing on water and carbon footprints of agriculture on the Texas High Plains ecoregion. The aim is to continue to perform systems approach research so that producers can stack diverse enterprises into conventional row crop systems, in hopes to continue to decrease water use (prolonging the life of the Ogallala aquifer), and to increase profitability. She wants to continue to work closely with producers by implementing planned grazing, where producers can monitor management outcomes to improve forage nutritive value, and meet production and economic goals. Further, she is teaching ecology and environmental science to the young and working minds of the future of our society to hopefully inspire and create thoughtful and mindful citizens. She wants to provide them the tools to help them navigate through adulthood, creating a fulfilling life, while impacting agriculture.