Patrick Drohan
Professor of Pedology

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452 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building
University Park, PA 16802 - pjd7@psu.edu
- 814-863-4246
Research Summary
Soil formation and biogeochemistry due to land use and ecosystem change; soil and water degradation, and the remediation of soil physical and chemical properties in urban environments.
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Soil Water Shale Gas Crops Climate Change Appalachian Region Shale Irrigation Infrastructure Gases Lakes Water Use Efficiency Fragmentation Surface Roughness Regolith Weathering Biochar Manganese Soil Science Pipeline Bedrock Wastewater Roughness Methodology SedimentsMost Recent Papers
Bryophyte diversity and soil organic carbon content in contrasting Northern Appalachian vernal pools
Shauna Kay Rainford, David Mortensen, Robert P. Brooks, Jhony Armando Benavides Bolaños, Patrick J. Drohan, 2022, Catena
Water use efficiency, yield and quality of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) using negative pressure irrigation
Pingguo Yang, Patrick J. Drohan, Huai Yu Long, Miao Yang, Yun Bian, Erdeng Ma, 2022, Industrial Crops and Products
Negative pressure irrigation on water use efficiency, yield and quality of Brassica chinensis L.
Pingguo Yang, Patrick J. Drohan, Huai Yu Long, Yun Bian, Ray B. Bryant, 2022, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture on p. 1508-1513
Caution is warranted when using animal space-use and movement to infer behavioral states
Frances E. Buderman, Tess M. Gingery, Duane R. Diefenbach, Laura C. Gigliotti, Danielle Begley-Miller, Marc M. McDill, Bret D. Wallingford, Christopher S. Rosenberry, Patrick J. Drohan, 2021, Movement Ecology
Manganese-coated IRIS to document reducing soil conditions
Martin C. Rabenhorst, Patrick J. Drohan, John M. Galbraith, Colby Moorberg, Lesley Spokas, Mark H. Stolt, James A. Thompson, Judith Turk, Bruce L. Vasilas, Karen L. Vaughan, 2021, Soil Science Society of America Journal on p. 2201-2209
Methylmercury in lake bed soils during re-flooding of an appalachian reservoir in the northeastern usa
Karin Eklöf, Patrick Drohan, Joseph Needoba, Sally Landefeld, Tawnya D. Peterson, Haiyan Hu, Lidiia Iavorivska, Elizabeth W. Boyer, 2021, Environmental Research Communications
Changing the hierarchical placement of soil moisture regimes in Soil Taxonomy
Mark H. Stolt, Anthony T. O'Geen, Dylan E. Beaudette, Patrick J. Drohan, John M. Galbraith, David L. Lindbo, H. Curtis Monger, Brian A. Needelman, Michel D. Ransom, Martin C. Rabenhorst, Joey N. Shaw, 2021, Soil Science Society of America Journal on p. 488-500
Modeling how to achieve localized areas of reduced white-tailed deer density
Amanda N. Van Buskirk, Christopher S. Rosenberry, Bret D. Wallingford, Emily Just Domoto, Marc E. McDill, Patrick J. Drohan, Duane R. Diefenbach, 2021, Ecological Modelling
Reallocating crop rotation patterns improves water quality and maintains crop yield
Fei Jiang, Patrick J. Drohan, Raj Cibin, Heather E. Preisendanz, Charles M. White, Tamie L. Veith, 2021, Agricultural Systems
作物主动汲水技术内涵与研究进展
Huaiyu Long, Xueping Wu, Shuxiang Zhang, Jiajia Wang, Patrick J. Drohan, Renlian Zhang, 2020, Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering on p. 139-152
Most-Cited Papers
Early trends in landcover change and forest fragmentation due to shale-gas development in Pennsylvania
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Margaret Brittingham-Brant, J. Bishop, K. Yoder, 2012, Environmental Management on p. 1061-1075
Weathering of rock to regolith: the activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures
Elizabeth A. Hasenmueller, Xin Gu, Julie N. Weitzman, Thomas S. Adams, Gary E. Stinchcomb, David M. Eissenstat, Patrick J. Drohan, Susan L. Brantley, Jason P. Kaye, 2017, Geoderma on p. 11-31
Watershed-Scale Impacts from Surface Water Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastewater in Western Pennsylvania
William D. Burgos, Luis Castillo-Meza, Travis L. Tasker, Thomas J. Geeza, Patrick J. Drohan, Xiaofeng Liu, Joshua D. Landis, Jens Blotevogel, Molly McLaughlin, Thomas Borch, Nathaniel R. Warner, 2017, Environmental Science & Technology on p. 8851-8860
Residential demolition and its impact on vacant lot hydrology
W. D. Shuster, S. Dadio, P. Drohan, R. Losco, J. Shaffer, 2014, Landscape Planning on p. 48-56
Biochar amendment of soil improves resilience to climate change
Roger T. Koide, Binh T. Nguyen, R. Howard Skinner, Curtis J. Dell, Matthew S. Peoples, Paul R. Adler, Patrick J. Drohan, 2015, GCB Bioenergy on p. 1084-1091
The joy of teaching soil science
Alfred E. Hartemink, Megan R. Balks, Zueng Sang Chen, Patrick Drohan, Damien J. Field, Pavel Krasilnikov, David J. Lowe, Martin Rabenhorst, Ken van Rees, Peter Schad, Louis A. Schipper, Marthijn Sonneveld, Christian Walter, 2014, Geoderma on p. 1-9
Topographic and soil constraints to shale-gas development in the northcentral appalachians
P. J. Drohan, M. Brittingham, 2012, Soil Science Society of America Journal on p. 1696-1706
The use of LiDAR terrain data in characterizing surface roughness and microtopography
Kristen M. Brubaker, Wayne L. Myers, Patrick J. Drohan, Douglas A. Miller, Elizabeth W. Boyer, 2013, Applied and Environmental Soil Science
Linear infrastructure drives habitat conversion and forest fragmentation associated with Marcellus shale gas development in a forested landscape
Lillie A. Langlois, Patrick J. Drohan, Margaret C. Brittingham, 2017, Journal of Environmental Management on p. 167-176
Turnover of soil carbon following addition of switchgrass-derived biochar to four soils
Binh T. Nguyen, Roger T. Koide, Curtis Dell, Patrick Drohan, Howard Skinner, Paul R. Adler, Andrea Nord, 2014, Soil Science Society of America Journal on p. 531-537
News Articles Featuring Patrick Drohan
Oct 02, 2020
Harvesting vegetation on riparian buffers barely reduces water-quality benefits
Allowing farmers to harvest vegetation from their riparian buffers will not significantly impede the ability of those streamside tracts to protect water quality by capturing nutrients and sediment — and it will boost farmers’ willingness to establish buffers.
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May 07, 2019
Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients
Several Huck researchers are among the recipients of 2018-19 IEE seed grants.
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