Bonhotal, Jean F
Senior Extension Associate
Compost Specialist with Cornell Waste Management Institute in the Department of Crop and Soil Science. She has worked in waste education for over eighteen years, first working for Cornell Cooperative Extension in Binghamton, NY and then for The Cornell Waste Management Institute. She has worked on composting feedstock from food to manure to animal carcasses. Currently her time is split between manure and carcass, butcher waste and roadkill composting education and research. Compost Quality, consistency and use as it relates to the market place are a high priority. Current research projects include pathogen control in road killed deer composts and use of manure as animal bedding.
research
research and scholarship focus
Research includes assessment of pathogens in composting systems found in roadkill deer, Johnes bacteria, Crypto sporidium and Giardia. Compost quality and use in turf, vineyards and landscaping, use of dairy maure solids as bedding.
primary investigator of
- EMERGENCY PLANNING FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA IN NEW YORK STATE | Research Grant
- EVALUATION OF A NEW COMPOST DAIRY BARN FACILITY IN NEW YORK STATE | Research Grant
- SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK MORTALITY MANAGEMENT | Research Grant
- USE OF DRIED MANURE SOLIDS AS BEDDING FOR DAIRY COWS | Research Grant
- USE OF DRIED MANURE SOLIDS AS BEDDING FOR DAIRY COWS: HOW OFTEN TO REBED? | Research Grant
co investigator of
research areas
- adult and extension education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- compost | collaborative research area (CALS)
- education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- nutrient management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- organic agriculture | collaborative research area (CALS)
- pathogens | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- soil and crop science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- value-added agriculture | collaborative research area (CALS)
- waste management | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Improving management of road-kill animals | 2007 Impact statement
- Natural rendering: Composting livestock mortality, butcher waste, roadkill, mortality from man-induced, and natural disasters | 2007 Impact statement
- Natural rendering: composting livestock mortality, butcher waste, roadkill, mortality from man-induced and natural disasters | 2006 Impact statement
affiliations
administrative appointment
- Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS) | Cornell department
academic staff in
- Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS) | Cornell department
teaching
teaching focus
I do not have a mandate to teach but I assist in courses as requested in my area of expertise.
service
outreach focus
Research includes assessment of pathogens in composting systems found in roadkill deer, Johnes bacteria, Crypto sporidium and Giardia. Compost quality and use in turf, vineyards and landscaping, use of dairy maure solids as bedding.
Keywords: avian influenza compost plan, compost, compost quality, compost quality and use, compost use, manure, manure as dairy bedding, mass casualty disposal response, mortality disposal, roadkill composting