Catherine R. Simpson, Ph.D.
Email: catherine.simpson@ttu.edu
Phone: 8068345691
Catherine Simpson is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources. She earned her Ph.D. in Horticulture at Texas A&M University in 2013 studying abiotic stress physiology in citrus and watermelon crops. Catherine was an Assistant Professor of Citrus Physiology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville from 2015-2019. There she pursued diverse research on citrus production, physiology, and sustainability. In 2019, she accepted a position at TTU as Assistant Professor of Horticulture and Sustainability.
Research Interests
Her previous research expertise includes: plant abiotic stress physiology, nutrition, water use efficiency, sustainable management practices, plant-soil-water relationships, remote sensing in perennial systems, and citrus physiology. Her current research spans the multifaceted areas that bridge horticulture and urban and peri-urban environments. These projects include water resource and soil sustainability, people-plant interactions, plants for human health, plant nutritional quality and phytochemical composition, functional plant products, and horticultural therapy.
- Horticultural sustainability
- Water conservation and alternative water sources in protected production systems.
- Passive and active effects of plants on different populations.
- Therapeutic horticulture
- Plant stress physiology
- Plant nutritional quality and its impacts on humans.
Teaching
PSS 4313 Arboriculture
PSS 4314 Management of Horticultural Enterprises
PSS 4411 Greenhouse Crop Production
PSS 5316 Adv. Arboriculture
PSS 5317 Adv. Nursery Management
PSS 5415 Adv. Greenhouse Crop Production
Department Bio
Department BioDepartment of Plant and Soil Science
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Address
Texas Tech University, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Box 42122, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Phone
806.742.2838 -
Email
psstechsupport@ttu.edu