Education

B.S., Geography, University of Wisconsin – Platteville, 2009
M.S., Natural Resource Science, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2011
Ph.D., Natural Resource Science (specialization in Soil Science), University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2015
 

Research/Teaching Interests

• Teaching methods
• Developing learning tools
• Soils and geomorphology, landscape changes

Honors and Awards

The Charles E. Bessey Award for Natural Science, Great Plains Research, 2013

Holling Family Early Achievement Faculty Award, University of Nebraska–Lincoln CASNR, 2022

Courses Taught

• Soil Resources, PLAS/SOIL 153
• Soil Evaluation, PLAS/NRES/SOIL 279
• Advanced Soil Evaluation, PLAS/NRES/SOIL 379
• Geography Field Tour, GEOG 497/897
• AGRI 310 (Study Tours in International Agriculture)

Publications

• Anderson, A., Burras, L.C., Turk, J., Young, R., Jelinski, N., Moorberg, C., Presley, D., Osterloh, K., Clark, K., and Dere, A. 2024. An Updated Method for Identifying the Formative Factors in Soil Structure. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 88: 2362-2369. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20771
• Young, R., Turk, J., Jelinski, N., Anderson, A., Clark, K., Dere, A., Moorberg, C., Osterloh, K., and Presley, D. 2023. Jumble judging: Cognitive and affective outcomes of intercollegiate collaboration at a soil judging competition. Natural Sciences Education, 52, e20104. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20104
• Turk, J., Young, R., Anderson, A., Dere, A., Jelinski, N., Moorberg, C., and Owen, R. 2022. Soils of the Central Nebraska Loess Hills and Central Loess Plains. Great Plains Research, Volume 32(2): 95-133. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2022.0010
• Owen, R.K., Anderson, A., Bhandari, A., Clark, K., Davis, M., Dere, A., Jelinksi, N., Moorberg, C., Osterloh, K., Presley, D., Turk, J., Young, R.  021.  valuating student attitudes and learning at remote collegiate soil judging events. Natural Sciences Education, 50, 320065. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20065
• Turk, J. and Young, R.  2021.  A novel approach for teaching soil texture estimation: Replacing standard protocols with directed self-calibration.  Journal of Geoscience Education, 70(1): 40-55. . https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2021.1891402
• Turk, J. and Young, R. 2019. Field Conditions and the Accuracy of Visually-Determined Munsell Soil Color. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 84: 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20023
• Francis, C., R. Young, S. Wortman, M. Kaiser, and A. Basche. 2019. International topics increase global awareness in Midwest crops and soils courses. NACTA Journal, 63(1a): 131-138.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/27128506