Duane Gardiner
Department of Agronomy and Resource Sciences
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, TX 78363
Email: duane.gardiner@tamuk.edu
Phone: 361-593-3691
Fax: 361-593-3788
Dr. Gardiner is an Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty of TAMU. He can serve as a Co-chair or Member on Graduate Student Advising Committees of TAMU students, including the Cooperative Ph.D. in Horticulture between TAMU and TAMUK.
Dr. Gardiner received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Soil Science from Utah State University in 1978 and 1980. He served in the U.S. Army and in the research department of Castle and Cooke foods Inc., and on the faculty of Dickinson State College. He received his Ph.D. in Soil Fertility with minors in Horticulture and Chemistry from Oregon State University in 1989. He became a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 1989.
Dr. Gardiner's recent research has focused primarily on use of soil amendments to improve soil physical properties such as permeability to water, crusting, and suitability for seedling emergence. He has studied effects of high-sodium water on soil and crops, and soil degradation and plant uptake of municipal and industrials wastes. He has also studied plant nutrition of wheat and pear trees.
"First, I am big on freedom. I give students great leeway in course selection and program objectives. Second, I believe that for graduate students, learning how to access and evaluate information, and how to package information for various users is more important than learning technical details. The great scientists are usually more or less self-taught in technical details."
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Miller, R.W., and D.T. Gardiner. 2001. Soils in our environment, 9th ed. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. (642 pages, CD-ROM)
Liu, Y., H. Ahmad, Y. Luo, D.T. Gardiner, R. Gunasekera, W.L. McKeehan, and B.S. Patil. 2001. Citrus pectin: Characterization and inhibitory effect on fibroblast growth factor-receptor interaction. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 49:3051-3057.
Gardiner, D., and G. Malladi. 2000. Plant response to intermittent irrigation with saline water. p. 155-159. In D. Kane (ed.) Water resources in extreme environments. American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA.
Gardiner, D., P. Felker, and T. Carr. 1999. Cactus extract increases water infiltration rates in two soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 30:1707-1712.
Gardiner, D.T., and N.W. Christensen. 1997. A simple model for phosphorus uptake kinetics of wheat seedlings. Journal of Plant Nutrition 20:271-277.
Gardiner, D.T. 1996. Gypsum and polyacrylamide soil amendments used with high sodium wastewater. Technical Report 174. Texas Water Resources Institute, College Station, TX. 50 pp.
Gardiner, D.T., R.W. Miller, B. Badamchian, A.S. Azzari, and DR. Sisson. 1995. Effects of repeated sewage sludge applications on plant accumulation of heavy metals. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 5 5:1-6.
Gardiner, D.T. 1994. Erroneous description and use of the sodium adsorption ratio in soils textbooks. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 23:61-62.
Gardiner, D.T. 1993. Revegetation status of reclaimed abandoned arid land in western North Dakota. Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation 7:79-84.
Gardiner, D.T., and N.W. Christensen. 1991. Pear seedling response to phosphorus, fumigation, and mycorrhizal inoculation. Journal of Horticultural Science 66:775-780.