Helga Van Miegroet

S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources

Wildland Resources

Helga Van Miegroet has been at Utah State University since 1993. She is a Professor in Wildland Soils and Biogeochemistry in the College of Natural Resources and Ecology Center. Prior to becoming a faculty member, she was a research scientist for six years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. She obtained her undergraduate Agricultural Engineering degree from Ghent University in Belgium specializing in Water and Forest Resources / Silviculture. She then earned her MS and PhD degrees in Forest Soils and Mineral Cycling from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research focuses on nitrogen and carbon cycling in forest ecosystems in a variety of geographic and climatic settings; the interaction between plants, soils, and water chemistry; and how cycling processes are affected by natural and anthropogenic disturbances. She has published over 75 scholarly publications and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and other technical outlets and has given numerous presentations on her research in invited seminars, and at national and international meetings and workshops.