2018-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

2014-2018, Graduate Associate in Environmental Pedology Laboratory, Dept. of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona

2012-2014, Graduate Assistant in Environmental Pedology Laboratory, Dept. of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona

Areas of Interest: Pedology - Soil formation and geology, physical and chemical properties, soil survey and mapping, interpretation of soil behavior and wetland preservation.

Publications

Shepard C, Pelletier JD, Rasmussen C. Past climate change constraint on soil formation and survival. (In prep for Quaternary Research.)

Shepard C, Schaap M, Chorover J, Rasmussen C. Predicting the three-dimensional soil chemical structure of a small forested catchment of the Santa Catalina-Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. (In prep for SSSAJ.)

Fairbanks D, Shepard C, Murphy M, Rasmussen C, Chorover J, Rich V, Gallery R. Topographic controls on soil microbial enzyme activity: applying digital soil mapping tools following wildfire disturbance in a sub-alpine catchment. (In prep for Soil Biology and
Biochemistry.)

Honors

2016-2018 - NASA/UA Graduate Space Grant Fellow, University of Arizona

2016 - 2nd Place Graduate Student Paper, Mineralogy Division, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ

2015 - 1st Place Graduate Student Paper, Pedology Division, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

2014-2015 - University Fellow, University of Arizona

2014-2015 - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Arizona

2013 - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Master’s Level Meritorious Graduate Teaching Award, University of Arizona