Paul Richard Momsen Miller

Email: rick@mbox1.ufsc.br prmiller@ucdavis.edu

Education

Ph.D. Ecology, U.C. Davis, 1990

Rick Miller is a Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in

the Dept. of Rural Engineering, where he lectures on soil fertility. In the

Graduate Program on Agroecosystems, he lectures on the origins of

agriculture, and advises graduate students who research local farmer

knowledge systems.

 

Research Interests

farmer knowledge sytems, agroecology, composting

green manures, ozone destruction, transposon-based breeding systems

Above: Environmentally responsible floor management minimizes bare strips (evident in the PUR database)

and utilizes legumes like this clover to fix atmospheric nitrogen (not traceable in the PUR database), for a

biological source for the orchard which contributes less to nitrous oxide production.

 

Above: Intensive use of pre-emergent herbicides can be tracked trough the PUR database, and

the resulting lack of orchard floor vegetation contributes to nitrous oxide production, a

bacterial gas product increasing in atmospheric concentration, and contributing to 

tratospheric ozone destruction.