
Tasios
Karathanasis
Professor Emeritus
- akaratha@uky.edu
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1405 Veterans Drive,
Lexington KY 40546-009
Professional Profile
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Using thermodynamic approaches to explain pedogenic processes, mineral weathering, and mineral distribution under different environmental settings.
- Developing and refining soil mineral quantification methods.
- Quantifying the role of colloidal soil particles in transporting agrochemicals and heavy metal contaminants to surface and ground water.
- Improving constructed wetland technology for onsite wastewater and acid mine drainage treatment.
- Conducting soil survey investigations in support of the Kentucky Cooperative Soil Survey Program
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Professor, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Kentucky, 1994-2018
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Kentucky, 1988-94
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Kentucky, 1983-88
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Agronomy & Soils, Auburn University, 1982-83
- Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Agronomy & Soils, Auburn University,1978-82
- International Atomic Energy Fellow, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1976-78
Professional Honors
- Soil Science Society of America Fellow Award, 1999
- American Society of Agronomy Fellow Award, 2000
- J.H.Heick Professor of Soil Science, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2003-2018
- Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2000
Education
- B.S. (1969), University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Agronomy Department.
- M.S. (1978), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Agronomy Department.
- Ph.D. (1982), Auburn University, Department of Agronomy and Soils.