Hettiarachchi Lab in the News!

January, 2024

www.kshb.com : 'Promising results': K-State PhD students work in KC to pioneer cost-effective way of reducing lead in soil

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/your-voice/promising-results-k-state-phd-students-work-in-kc-to-pioneer-cost-effective-way-of-removing-lead-from-soil

February, 2023

ASA, CSSA, SSSA News Magazine, Volume 68. Issue 2-The Bitter and the Sweet: Curbing Cadmium in Chocolate and Other Crops

https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/csan.20949

April 16, 2021

Science Highlights. 2021. Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. Altering the Fate of Phosphorus Fertilizer in Mildly Calcareous Soils

https://www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlight/2021-04-16/altering-the-fate-of-phosphorus-fertilizer-in-mildly-calcareous

October 20, 2020

Soil Chemistry: What’s In It For Us? – food science from the ground up, with Dr. Ganga Hettiarachchi, professor in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University

https://kstate-gfs.libsyn.com/soil-chemistry-whats-in-it-for-us-food-science-from-the-ground-up-with-dr-ganga-hettiarachchi-professor-in-the-department-of-agronomy-at-kansas-state-university

May 15, 2020

Soil based wastewater remediation. Emerging Contaminants: The current 57 North Central Region Water Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7onhrq6t2s

March 5, 2020

Liquid fertilizers are best in calcareous soils, they say

https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2020/03/resaerchers-test-fertilizers-in-kansas-soils.html

November 25, 2019

Soil pollution: The health risk no one is talking about

https://www.thehealthy.com/habits/soil-pollution-health-risk/

November 15, 2018

Unearthing evidence: Researchers examine processes that support soil health

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-unearthing-evidence-soil-health.html

November 2017

https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/csa/articles/62/11/10

August 2017

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biosci/bix089/4080176/Phytoremediation-of-Lead-What-Works-What-Doesn-t

December 2016

https://www.estormwater.com/soiled-reputation

February 2016

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160202144232.htm

February 2016

https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/node/361/view

October 27, 2015

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/inner-city-farmers-may-have-toxic-soils-on-their-hands-180957046/?no-ist

June 11, 2015

With proper care, contaminated urban soils are safe for gardening

May 15, 2015

Science Daily: Gardening in a polluted paradise: Is it safe?

May 13, 2015

SSSA, CSSA, and ASA: Gardening in a polluted paradise

https://www.soils.org/story/gardening-polluted-paradise

https://www.crops.org/story/gardening-polluted-paradise

https://www.agronomy.org/story/gardening-polluted-paradise

Spring 2015

Burns McDonnell: Banking on Nature