Brian Jackson
Bio
Associate Professor and Director of the Horticultural Substrates Laboratory at NC State University. Brian has been at NCSU since 2009. Brian’s research program focuses on the development, characterization, and utilization of organic soilless substrates in horticultural crop production with a special emphasis on the engineering and development of bark and wood-based substrate components. Having worked, traveled, and studied in over 50 countries, Brian maintains an extensive national and international professional network that he uses to facilitate collaborations and build research partnerships for the promotion and advancement of Substrate Science and Soilless Culture for traditional (ornamental) and non traditional (food crops) in container growing systems.