Stella Woeltjen

PhD 2023
[email protected]
248 Borlaug Hall
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisor
Dr. Jessica Gutknecht
Dr. Jake Jungers
Education

BS, Crop and Soil Science (with emphasis in soil conservation and hydrogeology), University of Wisconsin - River Falls, 2018

Biography

Stella Woeltjen (Pey) completed her PhD in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate in 2023. Her work uses isotope tracer methods to explore crop-soil carbon and nitrogen allocation in perennial grain crop (intermediate wheatgrass) systems.

Areas of Interest

Soil carbon sequestration, Crop-soil carbon/nutrient cycles, Soil microbiology, Perennial agriculture, Isotope ecology, K-12 outreach and education

Select Publications

PhD thesis: Evaluating crop physiological and stand age-related controls over soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in perennial and annual grains

Pey, S. L., and H. A. S. Dolliver. "Assessing soil resilience across an agricultural land retirement chronosequence." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 75, no. 2 (2020): 191-197.