Meet the Forestry Faculty

Milon F. George, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Forestry and Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences

Phone: 573-882-2710
E-mail: GeorgeM@missouri.edu
Address: 203 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building
Web site: http://web.missouri.edu/~georgem/

Education

Ph.D. 1975, University of Minnesota

Research

Biophysical and environmental plant physiology.

Research Summary

George's research interests are in biophysical and environmental plant physiology. Specific research interests include:
1. Biophysics of freezing survival by supercooling of cellular water in tissues of woody plants.
2. Microphysics of ice nucleation in solutions and by microorganisms.
3. Development of instrumentation for measuring freezing resistance in plants and for use in monitoring environmental variables.
4. Bioremediation: develop whole plant and microbial based systems for the bioremediation of toxic products of agricultural herbicides in water and soil environments.

Teaching

Tree Physiology
Meteorology of the Biosphere
Atmospheric Physics
Computer Applications in Natural Resources

Selected Publications

Lin, C.H., Lerch, R.N., Garrett, H.E., and George, M.F. 2006.
An Improved GC -MS/MS Method for Determination of Atrazine and Its Chlorinated Metabolites Uptake by Forage Plants-Laboratory and Field Experiments. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (In press).
Lin, C.H., R.N. Lerch, R.J. Kremer, H.E. Garrett, R.P. Udawatta, and M.F. George. 2005.
Soil microbiological activities in vegetative buffer strips and their association with herbicide degradation. In K.N. Brooks and P.F. Folliott (ed.) Moving Agroforestry into the Mainstream. The 9th North American Agroforestry Conference Proceedings, June 12-15, 2005, St. Paul, Minnesota. Dept. of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. pp. 1-10.
Lin, C.H., Lerch, R.N., Garrett H.E. and George, M.F. 2004.
Incorporation of selected forage grasses in riparian buffers designed for the bioremediation of atrazine, isoxaflutole (Balance) and nitrate. Agroforestry Systems. 63: 91-99.
Lin, C.H., Lerch, R.N., Johnson, W.G., Jordan, D., Garrett, H.E., and George, M.F. 2003.
The effect of five forage species on transport and transformation of atrazine and Balance (isoxaflutole) in lysimeter leachate. Journal of Environmental Quality 3: 1992-2000.
Lin, C.H., Lerch, R.N., Garrett, H.E., Li, Y.X., and George, M.F. 2003.
Degradation of isoxaflutole (Balance) herbicide by hypochlorite in tap water. Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry 51: 8011-8014.
Lin, C.H., Lerch, R.N. Garrett, H.E., Thurman, E.M., and George, M.F. 2002.
Determination of Balance (isoxaflutole) and its metabolites in water using high-performance liquid chromatography with UV and mass spectrometry. Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry . 50(21):5816-5824.
Lin, C.H., R.L. McGraw, M.F. George, and H.E. Garrett. 2001.
Nutritive Quality and Morphological Development under Partial Shade of Some Forage Species with Agroforestry Potential. Agroforestry Systems 53(3):269-281.
Burr, K.E., Hawkins, C.D.B., L'Hirondelle, S.J., Binder, W.D., George, M.F., and Repo, T. 2001.
Methods for Measuring Cold Hardiness (M.F. George, thermal analysis section). Chapter 14. In F.J. Bigras and S.J. Colombo (eds.), Conifer Cold Hardiness. Kluwer Academic publishers. Pp. 369-401.