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CV ‐ Sikora
FRANK SIKORA
Soil Test Coordinator, Regulatory Services
Associate Adjunct Professor
University of Kentucky
Soil Testing Lab
103 Regulatory Services Bldg.
Lexington, KY 40546-0275
Phone: 859-257-2785
fsikora@uky.eduAREAS OF INTEREST:
Soil-Plant relationships, Analytical chemistry in soil analysis, Chemical
Equilibria
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998-present. Soil Testing Coordinator and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
1996-1998. Team Leader for Constructed Wetlands Research Team, Biotechnology, TVA
Environmental Research Center, Muscle Shoals, AL.
1987-1995. Research Chemist, Biotechnology, TVA Environmental Research Center, Muscle Shoals,
AL
1991-1998. Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Agronomy and Soils, Auburn University,
Auburn, AL.
1986-1987. Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Agronomy, Cornell
EDUCATION
B.S. West Virginia University, 1980
M.S. University of Tennessee, 1982
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1986
As Coordinator of the Soil Testing Laboratories, the goal is to help the citizens of Kentucky maintain
productive and economical plant growth operations by offering tests on soils, water, greenhouse media,
and animal waste with subsequent fertilizer and lime recommendations.
Chemical tests are offered on media utilized for plant growth operations such as soil, greenhouse media,
and animal waste. Nutrient needs and fertilizer responses are determined by research conducted within
the UK College of Agriculture on crops and soils in Kentucky.
Routine soil testing includes pH, buffer pH, P, K, Ca, Mg, Zn and non-routine tests which include boron,
organic matter, and triazine residue in soil, pH and nutrients in greenhouse media used for various
horticultural crops, pH and nutrients in water used for irrigation and nutrient solution purposes, nutrients
in animal waste used for land application, and potential acidity in mine spoil.