Professional Interests:
Application of industrial by-products to soils; fate and transport of manure-borne hormones in swine production facilities, distribution of mercury in surface and subsurface soils, instrumentation for measuring soil physical and biological parameters; and soil salinity and sodicity.
Education:
Ph.D. Agronomy - May 2004. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
Dissertation: Impacts of animal waste lagoons on the environment.
M.S. Agronomy - May 1998. South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.
Thesis: Agrichemical concentrations on wind and nonwind-erodible sediment sizes as influenced by time, sediment size, and sorption-desorption characteristics.
B.S. Geography,Environmental Management - May 1994. South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.
Employment History:
2006 to present. Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
2004-2006. Post-Doctoral Research Agronomist, USDA-ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA
Teaching:
Courses Taught
SOIL 410/610, Soils and Land Use, 3 credits. Spring Semesters.
SOIL 491/790. Seminar (1 semester, 2007).
SOIL 721. Environmental Field Instrumentation and Sampling, 2 credits. Fall Semesters, odd years; 8 week course
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
1. DeSutter, T.M., T.J. Sauer, T.B. Parkin, and J.L. Heitman. 2008. A subsurface, closed-loop system for soil carbon dioxide and its application to the gradient efflux approach. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 72:126-134.
2. Heitman, J.L., R. Horton, T.J. Sauer, and T.M. DeSutter. 2008. Sensible heat observations reveal soil-water evaporation dynamics. J. Hydromet. 9:165-171.
3. Casey, F.X.M., P. Oduor, H. Hakk, G. L. Larsen, and T.M. DeSutter. 2008. Transport of 17-estradiol and testosterone in a field lysimeter. Soil Sci. 173:456-467.
4. Sauer, T.J., O.D. Akinyemi, P. Thery, J.L. Heitman, T.M. DeSutter, and R. Horton. 2008. Evaluation of a new, perforated heat flux plate design. Intern. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer. 35:800-804.
5. Sauer, T., J. Singer, J. Prueger, T. DeSutter, J. Hatfield. 2007. Radiation balance and evaporation partitioning in a narrow-row soybean canopy. Agric. For. Met. 145:206-214.
6. DeSutter, T.M., T.J. Sauer, and T.B. Parkin. 2006. Porous tubing for use in monitoring soil CO2 concentrations. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38:2676-2681.
7. DeSutter, T.M., G.M. Pierzynski, and L. Baker. 2006. Flow-through and batch methods for determining Ca-Mg and Mg-Ca selectivity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 70:550-554.
8. DeSutter, T.M., and J.M. Ham. 2005. Lagoon-biogas emissions and carbon balance estimates of a swine production facility. J. Environ. Qual. 34:198-206.
9. DeSutter, T.M., and G.M. Pierzynski. 2005. Evaluation of soils for use as liner materials: A soil chemistry approach. J. Environ Qual. 34:951-962.
10. DeSutter, T.M., G.M. Pierzynski, and J.M. Ham. 2005. Movement of lagoon-liquor constituents below four animal-waste lagoons. J. Environ. Qual. 34:1234-1242.
11. DeSutter, T.M., S.A. Clay, and D.E. Clay. 2003. Atrazine sorption and desorption as affected by aggregate size, particle size, and soil type. Weed Sci. 51:456-462.
12. Clay, S.A., T.M. DeSutter, and D.E. Clay. 2001. Herbicide concentration and dissipation from surface wind-erodible soil. Weed Sci. 49:431-436.
13. Ham, J.M. and T.M. DeSutter. 2000. Towards site-specific design standards for animal-waste lagoons: Protecting groundwater quality. J. Environ. Qual. 29:1721-1732.
14. Ham, J.M. and T.M. DeSutter. 1999. Seepage losses and nitrogen export from swine-waste lagoons: A water balance study. J. Environ. Qual. 28:1090-1099.
15. DeSutter, T.M., S.A. Clay, and D.E. Clay. 1998. Atrazine, alachlor, and total inorganic nitrogen concentrations of winter wind-eroded sediment samples. J. Environ. Sci. Health B33:683-691.
16. Clay, D.E., J. Chang, S.A. Clay, M. Ellsbury, C.G. Carlson, D.D. Malo, D. Woodsen, and T. DeSutter. 1997. Field scale variability on nitrogen and delta15N in soil and plant. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 28:1513-1527.