College

Agricultural Sciences

Department

Soil and Crop Sciences

Category

Environment, Climate Change

Areas of Expertise

Soil health

Eugene Kelly

Kelly studies the origin, evolution and stability of soil associated with farming and climate change and the inherent balance between inputs and losses of nutrients and carbon.

Kelly, deputy director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, focuses on quantifying the biologically mediated processes of soil formation. His current research is centered on global soil degradation and the fundamental role of grasslands in global biogeochemical cycles.

Kelly is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and a member of both the Ecological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. He serves on several regional and national advisory committees for the National Cooperative Soil Survey, and is associate director for research in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at CSU.

Kelly received the 2016 Soil Science Society of America Research Award.

Kelly earned his B.S. in forest and range management from CSU in 1980. He then studied soil science, earning his M.S. from CSU in 1984 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989.