Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O’Neill, is a native of Kentucky. He attended Cornell University and Michigan State for Graduate and Post-graduate research. He conducts research on soil systems and terrestrial microbial ecology. Soils are vital ecosystems for their role in food production, their importance to global carbon and water cycles and regulation of greenhouse gases. O’Neill’s work includes basic research into the formation and function of soil microbial communities, as well as highly applied work in Agrivoltaic (crop production + solar) in Michigan.