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GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Experience
08/2012 - Current
Washington , DCGraduate Research Assistant
- Worked closely with various research projects with a wide range of crops including rice, wheat, sugarcane, corn and soybean among the producers and extension agents in Louisiana.
- Worked with remote sensing and crop growth monitoring tools for crop management.
- Proven cross-cultural and management experience.
- Fluent in 4 languages including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and English.
- Instruments and equipments: Digester, Giddings deep core soil sampler, Greenseeker handled Sensor, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer and ICP-AES.
- Train visiting scholars with research methods including laboratory and field work.
- Laboratory management and analysis: Soil and plant samples for macro and micronutrients.
- Standardizing the silicon analysis of plant and soil samples with various chemical analysis procedures.
- Greenhouse study experience: Designing and managing several greenhouse studies.
- Field trials: Setting up and managing field trials with different crops.
- Softwares used: MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel Field days attended: Crop Production Field day in St Joseph, LA 2013.
01/2013 - 01/2014
Bickford Senior Living － Fort Dodge , IA
01/2014
IL
08/2010 - 07/2012
Association Of American Medical Colleges － Gurnee Graduate Research Assistant
- Worked closely with small farm holders and conducted soil surveys in India.
- Organized and conducted seminars on different crop production topics in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry.
- Have played an active role in organizing and participating the National Symposium on Silicon in Agriculture in Bengaluru, 2012; sponsored by AGRIPOWER, Australia.
- Instruments and equipments: Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Graphite Furnace), Micro-wave digester ( Plant sample analysis), ICP AES and UV-VIS Spectrophotometer.
- Laboratory analysis: Set up experiments in laboratory and analysed for various plant nutrients and heavy.
- metals like cadmium.
- Greenhouse and field trials: Set up and managed several greenhouse and field trials with crops like rice, corn and finger millet.
- Softwares used: MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
Education
December, 2015
Louisiana State University － City, State, USAPh.D: Agroecology and Sustainable AgricultureGPA: GPA: 6Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture GPA: 6 Dissertation: Categorization and Calibration of Soil Silicon Status in Louisiana Plant Science and Agricultural Science coursework (Advanced Soil Chemistry, Soil Physics, Pedology, Experimental Statistics, Plant Metabolism, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands, Soil Microbiology, Advanced Soil Fertility, Weed Science
2012
University of Agricultural Sciences － City, State, IndiaMaster of Science: Soil Science and Agricultural ChemistryGPA: GPA: 1/10Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry GPA: 1/10 Status of Silicon and Cadmium in Paddy Soils of Karnataka and their Effect on Growth, Yield, and Uptake by Rice. Plant Science and Agricultural Science coursework ( Plant Physiology, Soil Chemistry, Agricultural Statistics, Watershed Management, Environmental Pollution Control, Biotechnology, Dryland Farming
2010
Kerala Agricultural UniversityState, IndiaBachelor of Science: Agricultural ScienceGPA: GPA: 4/10Agricultural Science GPA: 4/10 Plant Science and Agricultural Science coursework (Soil Fertility, Field Crops, Water Management, Fruit and Vegetable Production, Food processing, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Plants, Agricultural Pests and Diseases, Farm Business Management, Entrepreneurship Development Program, Non-Governmental Organization Training, Participatory Rural Appraisal, Dryland Farming, Organic Farming, Weed science, Farm machinery, Agricultural Statistics, Organic Farming, Agricultural Metereology, Agricultural Marketing and International Trade, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, Germplasm Conservation)
Professional Affiliations
Member of Agronomy Society of America Member of Soil Science Society of America Member of Crop Science Society of America Member of Graduate Student Association, School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, LSU Member of World Vision (Humanitarian Organization), India.
Publications
T. Babu and N.B Prakash. xxxx Status of silicon and cadmium in paddy soils of South India and their effect on growth, yield and uptake by rice. (In progress). T. Babu, T., B. Tubana, B. White, P. Dupree and J. Yzenas. xxxx. Survey of the plant-available silicon status of agricultural soils in Louisiana. (In progress) T. Babu, B. Tubana, B. White, L. Datnoff and J. Yzenas. xxxx. Release and adsorption pattern of monosilicic acid in different soils of Louisiana treated with silicon fertilizer: A laboratory incubation study. (In progress). T. Babu, B. Tubana, L. Datnoff, B. White, and J. Yzenas.xxxx. Establishing soil silicon test procedure and critical silicon level for rice in Louisiana soils. (In progress). T. Babu, B. Tubana, L. Datnoff and J. Yzenas. xxxx. Review of silicon in USA agriculture. (In progress). PAPERS IN PROCEEDINGS B. Tubana, L. Datnoff, C. Narayanaswamy, B. White, T. Babu, and J. Yzenas. 2014. Changes on plant- available silicon level of selected soils from the Midwest and South USA applied with different rates of silicate slag. In 6th International Conference on Silicon in Agriculture, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 26-31, 2014. T. Babu, B. Tubana, L. Datnoff, J. Yzenas, and J. Wang. 2014. Dynamics of monosilicic acid in solid and solution phases of different soils of Louisiana. In 6th International Conference on Silicon in Agriculture, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 26-31,2014. T. Babu and N.B Prakash. 2014 Status of silicon and cadmium in paddy soils of South India and their effect on growth, yield and uptake by rice. In 20th World Congress of Soil Science 2014, Jeju, Korea. PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS Babu, T. B. Tubana, L. Datnoff, J. Wang, and J. Yzenas. 2014. Release pattern of monosilicic acid from different sources of silicon in soils of Louisiana. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 2-5, 2014, Long Beach, CA. White, B., H. Mascagni, Jr., P. Dupree, T. Babu, and B. Tubana. 2014. Effect of varying rates of silicon and nitrogen fertilizer on grain yield, yield components, and nutrient uptake of wheat. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 2-5, 2014, Long Beach, CA. Tubana, B., M. Martins, P. Dupree, B. White, M. Dalen, S. Chanda, T. Babu, D. Munoz, F. Agostinho, R. Frazier, and D. Burns. 2014. Analysis of within-field variability in cotton on large-scale field tests in north Louisiana. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 2-5, 2014, Long Beach, CA. Chanda, S., J. Hoy, P. Dupree, M. Dalen, T. Babu, and B. Tubana. 2013. Population stand monitoring of cane using coefficient of variance among canopy reflectance-based vegetation index readings. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 3-6, 2013, Tampa, FL. Tubana, B., M. Kongchum, T. Babu, J.M. Rabasse, and L. Datnoff. 2014. Effect of foliar formulation of bio-available on grain yield and silicon uptake of rice. 66th International Symposium on Crop Protection. Ghent, Belgium, May 20, 2014. Tubana, B., Kongchum, M., L. Datnoff, and T. Babu. 2013. Effect of silicon sources on rice biomass silicon uptake and grain yield. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 3-6, 2013, Tampa, FL. Tubana, B., T. Babu, and L. Datnoff. 2013. Silicon dynamics in soils under different cropping systems in Louisiana. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 3-6, 2013, Tampa, FL. Babu, T., L. Datnoff, J. Yzenas, and B. Tubana. 2013. Silicon status of Louisiana soils grown to different field crops. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 3-6, 2013, Tampa, FL. PRESENTATIONS Oral presentation on the topic "Status of Silicon and Cadmium in Paddy Soils of South India and Their Effect on Growth,Yield and Uptake by Rice" at The Society of Wetland Scientists Meet,2013, Louisiana. Poster presentation on "Silicon Dynamics in Soils Under Different Cropping Systems in Louisiana" at Agronomy Society of America meet 2013, Tampa, Florida. Poster presentation on "Silicon Status of Louisiana Soils Grown to Different Field Crops" at Agronomy Society of America meet 2013, Tampa, Florida. Oral presentation on the topic "Dynamics of Monosilicic Acid in Solid and Solution Phases of Different Soils of Louisiana"in Silicon in agriculture 6th International Conference, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden. Oral presentation on the topic "Release Pattern of Monosilicic Acid from Different Soils of Louisiana" at Agronomy Society of America meet 2014, Long Beach, California.
Additional Information
- HONORS AND AWARDS Recipient of Lee and Fran Mason- Department Scholarship, $200 School of Plant Environmental and Soil Sciences. LSU. Eunice M & D L Fontenot Scholarship- Departmental Scholarship, $200 School of Plant Environmental and Soil Sciences. LSU. Recipient of Best Oral Presentation award from the Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition Division of Soil Science Society of America, 2014, Long Beach, California. Recipient of Best Oral Presentation award from the Society of Wetland Scientists, 2013, Louisiana Recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship (2010-2012) from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Recipient of Kerala State Government fellowship for undergraduation for meritorious students(2006-2010).
Skills
Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Business Management, Calibration, Chemistry, Designing, Economics, English, experiments, Genetics, Hindi, machinery, managing, Marketing, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Word, Micro-wave, organizing, Physics, Physiology, research, seminars, Statistics, surveys, Symposium, UV
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School Attended
- Louisiana State University
- University of Agricultural Sciences
- Kerala Agricultural University
Job Titles Held:
- Graduate Research Assistant
Degrees
- Ph.D : Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture
Master of Science : Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
Bachelor of Science : Agricultural Science
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