Tyson Ochsner

Dr. Ochsner is originally from Chattanooga, Oklahoma. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science at OSU in 1998. He then studied Soil Science and Water Resources at Iowa State University, earning a M.S. in 2000 and a Ph.D. in 2003. From 2003 through 2008, he worked as a soil scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2008, he joined OSU as a faculty member in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. He helps lead OSU's Rural Renewal Initiative and also participates in the OSU Fellowship of Christian Faculty and Staff. The mission of his soil physics research and teaching program is to help people better understand and appreciate the soil, the soil water balance, and the surface energy balance so that we can more wisely manage and conserve the land and water with which we have been entrusted. The primary focus is on multi-scale soil moisture monitoring and improved utilization of soil moisture data in agriculture, hydrology, and ecology.

Research Interests:
* soil science
* water resources
* physics
* agriculture
* environmental science
* coupled human-natural systems
* rural renewal