Dr. RATTAN LAL
School of Natural Resources,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210

Tel           : 614-292-9069
Citizenship   : USA
Date of Birth : 5 September, 1944

Education

B.Sc. (Agric.), 1963, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

M. Sc. (Soils), 1965, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Ph.D. (Soils), 1968, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA


Language Proficiency:

English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, French (fair)


Professional Positions Held:

1963-1965 Research Assistant, The Rockefeller Foundation, New Delhi, India

1966 - 1968 Research Assistant, OARDC, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.

1968 - 1969 Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia

1970 - 1987 Soil Physicist, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria

1984 - 1987 Coordinator, Upland Production Systems, Farming Systems Program, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria

1987 Visiting Professor, Univ. Maracay, Venezuela (one month)

1987 - 1989 Associate Professor, Soil Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1989 - to date Prof. Soil Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1997 Visiting Professor, Ayub Agric. Res. Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan (one month)

2001 - 2002 Director, Carbon Mgt. & Sequestration Program, OARDC/OSU, Columbus, OH

2003 - to date Director, Carbon Mgt. & Sequestration Center, OARDC/OSU, Columbus, OH

2001 - to date Director, South Asia Initiative, OARDC/FAES, Columbus, OH


Additional Administrative Experience

1981 - 1984 Chair, International Committee on Tropical Deforestation and Land Development, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria

1984 - 1987 Co-Chair, Tropical Land Clearing for Sustainable Agriculture, IBSRAM Network, Thailand (with Pedro Sanchez, co-chair)
Service to Professional Organizations

1982 - 1987 Vice President, Int'l Commission on Continental Erosion

1987 - 1990 President, World Association of Soil and Water Conservation

1988 - 1991 President, Int'l Soil Tillage Research Organization

1990 - 1992 Member NRC Panel on Vetiveria, NRC, Washington, D.C.

1990 - 1993 Member NRC Panel on Sustainable Agric., NRC, Washington, D.C.

1993 - 1996 Corresponding author, IPCC Working Group II: Geneva, Switzerland

1998 - 2000 Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, LULUCF, Geneva, Switzerland

1998 - 2002 Member, U.S. Nat'l Comm. on Soil Sci., Nat'l Acad. Sci., Washington, D.C.

2000 - to date Member, Review Panel, Environment Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

2000 - to date Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Dekker, NY

2003 - to date Lead Author, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

2004 - to date Co-Editor-in-Chief, Soil & Tillage Research, Elsevier, Holland

2005 - President-Elect, Soil Science Society of America

Current Funding Support and Collaboration
(Total Grants Received Since 1982 = US $ 10.7 millions)

(i) U.S. Government: USDA (NRCS, ERS, CSREES), USAID, USDOE, US State Dept., US-EPA

(ii) Foundations: The Rockefeller Foundation

(iii) Industry: Monsanto, Corn Growers Assoc., Soybean Growers Assoc., AEP, Ohio Coal Development, Tata Trust

(iv) National Laboratory: Oak Ridge Nat’l. Lab., Los Alamos Nat’l Lab., Pacific Northwest Nat’l. Lab., Battelle, Brookhaven Nat’l. Lab.

Graduate Students. Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Scientists
M. Sc: 35 Ph. D: 35 Postdoctoral Fellows: 37 Visiting Scientists & Special Trainees: 43

Publications

Books written                    : 11
Refereed journal articles        : 404
Reviews and keynote papers       : 204

Books edited                     : 39
Chapters in multi-authored books : 255
Miscellaneous                    : 147

Total                            :1060

Awards

• Matriculation, Punjab University, best student of the school (1959)

• Gold medal, Punjab Agricultural University, the best student in B.S. (1963)

• Gold medal, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, the best student in M.S. (1965)

• Member, Sigma Xi, Ohio Chapter (1968)

• Fellow:
  Am. Soc. Agron. (1985),
  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. (1986),
  Third World Acad. Sci. (1992),
  Am. Assoc, Adv. Sci. (1996),
  Soil Water Cons. Soc. (1997),
  Nat'l Acad. Agric. India, (1998)

• Soil Science Applied Res. Award (1992),
  Soil Sci. Res. Award (2002) of Soil Sci. Soc. of America

• Hugh Hammond Bennett Award, Soil Water Conservation Society (1998)

• Int'l Soil Sci. Award, Soil Sci. Soc. America (1988)

• Int'l Agron. Award (1995),
  Env. Quality Award (2004),
  Agronomic Res. Award (2005) of American Soc. of Agronomy

• Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (1994)

• Univ. Distinguished Lecture, The Ohio State University (2000)

• Distinguished Senior Faculty Res. Award,
  Ohio Agricultural Research Development Center-OSU (2001)

• Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Punjab Agricultural University,
  Ludhiana, India (2001)

• Scroll of Honor, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar,
  India (2001)

• Borlaug Award, 2005.

• Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa,
  Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences, Aas (2005)