2- Antonious, GF has been serving (2008-2014) as lead research scientist in the KSU Evans-Allen Project dealing with chemical analyses of soil and plant tissues samples collected from Meade, Ekron and Columbia Counties. The project main objective is to monitor the impact of heavy metals in sewage sludge on the quality of vegetables grown in small farms. Mr. Norman Watts, Brandenburg Road, Ekron, KY and Clem Haskins Family Farms, and Dwain & Theresa Brockman Fields, Columbia, KY 42728 are collaborators in this KSU/USDA/CSREES project.
3- Antonious, G.F. collaborated with Dr. Rezaul Mahmood, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University and installed a new weather station at KSU Research Farm as a result of WKU/KSU joined Mesonet Consortium Project.
4- Antonious, GF has collaborated with Mr. Louie Rivers, Manager of small farmers outreach program and demonstrated several on-farm soil management practice, water quality issues, and the safe use of alternative pesticides to all Kentucky growers during several meetings with KY growers and minority farmers.
5- Antonious, GF, member of the KSU Organic Agriculture Working Group (organic.kysu.edu) and is currently serving as the group contact person for natural products chemistry & hot pepper formulations.
6- Antonious, GF developed a natural product formulation from wild tomato leaves and from hot pepper fruits for use in pest control in vegetable production with collaboration with private sector (Shawnee Research & Development, Jamestown, TN). Also developed and taught the 1st undergraduate research project at Kentucky State University (KSU) for training and teaching limited-resource farmers at KSU Third-Thursday meetings.
7- Antonious, GF developed and installed the 1st biobed (biofilter) systems in 2008 at Kentucky State University Research Farm (Franklin County, KY 40601) to reduce the impact of pesticides and heavy metals on environmental quality. Also, delivered new technology of using sewage sludge for land farming in 1998 in KY counties to increase crop yield and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizers. This has resulted in a significant saving to limited resource farmers who are facing the sharply-escalating production costs associated with increasing costs of energy and fertilizers.
Member of the Journal of Environmental Science and Health Editorial Board (2006-2017).
Member of the Kentucky Academy of Science Governing Board (2006) and Chair of the Committee of Distribution of Research Funds (2005-2017).
Member of the Soil Science Society of America, since 2011 & Member of the American Society of Horticultural Science (ASHS) since 2012.
Adjunct Professor, since 2002 at the University of Kentucky, Department of Horticulture
KSU Coordinator for Kentucky Posters-at-the-Capitol Steering Board (2006-2017)
Member of the Georgia Entomological Society, since 1993.
Member of the Entomological Society of Egypt, since 1980
Signed: ___ Dated: March 30, 2017
Dated: March 30, 2017
George F. Antonious
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