Elaine Ingham


Elaine Ingham is an American microbiologist and soil biology researcher and founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. She is known as a leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil food web. She is an author of the USDA's Soil Biology Primer. In 2011, Ingham was named as The Rodale Institute's chief scientist.

Career

Ingham earned her PhD from the Colorado State University in 1981. Her doctorate is in Microbiology with an emphasis on soil. Along with her husband Russ, she was offered a post-doctoral fellowship at the Natural Resource Ecology Lab at Colorado State University. In 1985, she accepted a Research Associate Fellowship at the University of Georgia.
In 1986, Ingham moved to Oregon State University and joined the faculty in both Forest Science and Botany and Plant Pathology. She remained on faculty until 2001.
Ingham has been an Affiliate Professor of Sustainable Living at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, Adjunct Faculty at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales from 1999 to 2005, Visiting Professor with Melbourne University from 2004 to 2008, and was Program Chair of the Ecological Society of America from 1999 to 2000. She joined the Rodale Institute in 2011 as chief scientist and left in 2013.
Ingham is the founder of Soil Foodweb Inc, which works with soil testing laboratories to assess soil biology. Recently, Ingham has become Director of Research at the Environment Celebration Institute's Farm near Berry Creek in Northern California, demonstrating the methods of biological agriculture to grow plants without pesticides or inorganic fertilizers.

Books

See Dr. Ingham's website for the full list of her publications