Marina Molodovskaya

Email: mm433@cornell.edu

To introduce myself I should probably give you some excurse to overseas….hm-m-m…. far away from United States. Are you intrigued? Then I continue. I am from one of those attractively 'exotic' countries recently appeared at world's geographic maps, which are still sort of 'terra incognita' for lots of people allover the world. Just imagine: the very middle of Eurasian continent; devastatingly hot sandy desert; incredibly beautiful mountains; dying, desiccating Sea; ancient and modern cities... Well I dont want to sound like tourist guideline and open the secret - I am from Uzbekistan. I came to the US, Cornell University and S&W lab in August 2003 for my Master's study, which I am doing on estimation of nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from agricultural soils in New York State dairy farms. My particular research interest is given to impact of aeration and pH changes on rate of nitrogen gases emission form manure and manured soils. Smells good? I think so, too!