Garrison Sposoito

Garrison Sposito holds the Betty & Isaac Barshad Chair in Soil Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sposito, whose academic degrees are in agriculture, is the author of more than 600 publications and has been elected a Fellow of six international scientific societies. He is the recipient of several honors for his research in soil science and hydrology, including the Soil Science Research Award of the Soil Science Society of America and the Horton Medal of the American Geophysical Union for "outstanding contributions to the geophysical aspects of hydrology." In 2008 he was designated a Legend in Environmental Chemistry by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific organization.