Amee Bumguardner
Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Howdy, I received my M.S. in Soil Fertility from Texas Tech University in 2018 and completed my B.S. in Plant and Environmental Soil Science from Texas A&M University in 2016. My masters research focused on soil potassium effects on cotton growth, yield and quality in the Texas High Plains. Currently I am a PhD candidate at Texas Tech University and a Research Associate at Texas A&M AgriLife Research in the Soil Fertility and Chemistry Lab run by Dr. Katie Lewis in Lubbock, TX. My current research focuses on optimizing fertilizer management and irrigation in cotton cropping systems. My research focuses on soil nitrogen, normalized difference vegetative index, reniform nematode analysis, plant N determination and nitrogen use efficiency calculations. I expect to graduate in August 2022 with hopes of continuing research in soil fertility at the university level.
I have received the Dow AgroSciences Graduate Fellowship from 2016 to 2021, the West Texas Agricultural Chemical Institute scholarship in 2017 and 2020, the Helen DeVitt Jones part-time graduate fellowship in 2019 and 2020 and the Fern Lee “Missy” Finck graduate scholarship in 2021.
