This is a landing page for community members and students to access the resources found in these pages. Feel free to explore!
Courses I am Teaching Now
General Topics and Student Research
Making a Difference in Communities
Doing Science on a Budget
SOPs, Resources, etc.
Past Research, Courses, etc.
Ecologist - health, the environment, and our food system. Biogeochemistry, Agroecology, Parasitology
Agronomist - scalable appropriate farm technology, organic no-till, weed science, women in agriculture
We are always looking for motivated students. Please email jamischler@goshen.edu for more information.
All course information for currently taught courses is listed below.
Come join us for some exciting research!
Welcome to our lab research page. We concentrate on the interactions between agriculture and the environment. Specifically we have an historical emphasis on the nitrogen cycle and ecosystem change as well as examining the ties between agricultural activity and disease risk. The advent of cheap and widely available synthetic reactive nitrogen in the developed world following the Second World War has led to huge improvements in agricultural yields and human nutrition. However, this "green revolution" has failed to reach the poorer parts of the globe (i.e. Sub-Saharan Africa) and has led to unintended environmental degradation in the developed and developing world. Nutrient Runoff has led to harmful algal blooms, dead zones, toxic well water, and favorable conditions for the hosts of disease-causing organisms through changes in productivity and shifts in limiting nutrients. For excellent reviews on the environmental effects of nitrogen enrichment read Davidson et al. 2016 and Townsend et al. 2003; for a review linking nutrient enrichment to disease risk please read Johnson et al. 2010.
Students in our lab tackle a range of research projects at all levels of their academic career. You are welcome to join our lab as either a BIOL/ENST 229 student to learn the ropes and get your feet wet (sometimes literally) in one or more research topics as well as the fully immersive BIOL/ENST 490 senior research option. If you want to continue your senior research topic in even greater depth you can add the additional BIOL/ENST 491. In the past, students in our lab have joined a number of ongoing projects based on their their subject of interest as well as the skills they wish to develop. Prospective students are always welcome to propose new projects. The most successful projects tend to fall within our labs areas of expertise. The following are our projects that are currently active:
A list of past and current outreach events.
Simple and inexpensive equipment to get your science on!
Find standard operating protocols, identification keys, and other resources here.
Helpful links to past course materials, past research, photos, etc.
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