David E. Crowley has a B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Colorado State University. He has worked as a professor of soil microbiology for the University of California in Riverside, CA for the past 12 years. His research program at the University of California has focused on soil microbial ecology with a particular emphasis on plant microbial interactions in the rhizosphere of plant roots. Dr. Crowley has published extensively on the role of plant and microbially-produced siderophores in mobilizing trace metals for uptake by plants, and on the bioremediation of organic pollutants in soils using monoterpene producing plants. Dr. Crowley and his former Ph.D. student, Eric Gilbert, were awarded the B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award for their discovery of the role of monoterpenes in inducing bacterial degradation of PCBs. Currently Dr. Crowley is working on the development of phytoremediation methods for cleanup of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) under the auspices of an EPA STAR Grant.

Email address: crowley@mail.ucr.edu