OMB Meeting Book (March 2, 2017)

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

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Soil-Plant relationships, Analytical chemistry in soil analysis, Chemical

Equilibria

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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1998-present. Soil Testing Coordinator and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

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1996-1998. Team Leader for Constructed Wetlands Research Team, Biotechnology, TVA

Environmental Research Center, Muscle Shoals, AL.

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1987-1995. Research Chemist, Biotechnology, TVA Environmental Research Center, Muscle Shoals,

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1991-1998. Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Agronomy and Soils, Auburn University,

Auburn, AL.

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1986-1987. Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Agronomy, Cornell

EDUCATION

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B.S. West Virginia University, 1980

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M.S. University of Tennessee, 1982

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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.

OMB Meeting Book

March 2, 2017