
Associate Professor, Soil, Water and Environmental Science
PhD, Iowa State University, 1979
Office: Shantz, Room 429 [Map]
Phone: (520) 621-7226
Email: matthias@ag.arizona.edu
Allan Matthias' research centers on improved understanding of climatic and soil factors affecting agricultural use of water for producing crops in arid and semiarid regions. He studies air-surface exchanges involving radiation, heat, momentum, water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides within these regions and is investigating how "free-air CO2 enrichment" (FACE) of irrigated wheat may effect the ability of soils to release N2O to the atmosphere.