Richard Shaw

Richard K Shaw, Ph.D.

USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service

220 Davidson Ave, 4^th Floor

Somerset, NJ 08873 USA

Richard K Shaw serves as State Soil Scientist for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in New Jersey. His responsibilities include providing technical soils assistance to internal (NRCS) and external customers in New Jersey and New York City, serving as liaison to National Cooperative Soil Survey partners, and overseeing the management and distribution of local soils information. From 2002 to 2011 he served as project leader for the New York City Soil Survey program, and he is one of the founding members of the New York City Urban Soils Institute. He also serves as a subject editor of the Journal of Soils and Sediments.

Selected SUITMA-related papers:

Huot H, Joyner J, Córdoba A, Shaw RK, Wilson MA, Walker R, Muth TR, Cheng Z. 2017. Characterizing urban soils in New York City: profile properties and bacterial communities. J. Soils Sediments. 17:393-407.

Azzolina NA, Kreitinger JP, Skorobogatov Y, Shaw RK. 2016. Background concentrations of PAHs and metals in surface and subsurface soils collected throughout Manhattan, New York. Environ. Forensics 17:294-310.

Shaw RK, Hernandez L, Levin M, Muñiz E. 2016. Promoting soil science in the urban environment – partnerships in New York City, NY, USA. J. Soils Sediments. doi:10.1007/s11368-016-1456-8

Cheng Z, Paltseva A, Li I, Morin T, Huot H, Egendorf S, Su Z, Yolanda R, Singh K, Lee L, Grinshtein M, Liu Y, Green K, Wai W, Wazed B, Shaw RK. 2015. Trace metal contamination in New York City garden soils. Soil Sci. 180:167-174.

Cheng Z, Lee L, Dayan S, Grinshtein M, Shaw RK. 2011. Speciation of heavy metals in garden soils: evidence from selective and sequential chemical leaching. J. Soils Sediments 11:628-638.

Nehls T, Shaw RK. 2010. Black carbon in soils: Relevance, analysis, distribution. Soil Survey Horizons 51:79-84.