Norman is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science from The Ohio State University as a Fulbright Scholar and a Graduate Research Associate of The Ohio State University from 1997 to 2001. He was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Studies from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, after an award from the Rotary International Foundation in 1993. He holds a bachelor's degree in Agriculture with a major in Crop Science from Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, as a Xavier Science Foundation scholar. He is an alumnus of Holy Cross High School (Class of 1985) , Phillips Bukidnon, Philippines.
He worked for Xavier University as Lecturer-Instructor from 1989 to 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he was appointed Research and Documentation Coordinator for the Sustainable Agriculture Center of the College of Agriculture, Xavier University and later assumed Officer-In-Charge of the Center in 1997. His research at OSU included substitution of vermicomposts into commercial plant-growth media to horticultural crops in the greenhouse. Together with Dr. Clive Edwards and his students at the Soil Ecology Laboratory, they pioneered research on vermicompost applications in the field using other commercially important vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers, ornamentals such as marigolds and petunias, and small fruits such as strawberries, raspberries and grapes and to investigate their effects on chemical and biochemical changes in soils. He leads a USDA/NRI grant entitled “Effects and Modes of Action of Vermicomposts on Field Horticultural Crops”.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
· Arancon, N.Q., Atiyeh, R.M., C.A. Edwards, J.D. Metzger, 2003. Effects of vermicompost produced from food waste on greenhouse peppers, Bioresource and Technology, in press
· Arancon, N.Q., C.A. Edwards, P. Bierman, C. Welch, J.D. Metzger, 2003. The influence of vermicompost applications to strawberries: Part 1. Effects on Growth and Yield. (In Press)
· Arancon, N.Q., C.A. Edwards, P. Bierman, 2003. The influence of vermicompost applications to strawberries: Part 2. Changes in soil microbiological, chemical and physical properties. (In Press).
· Arancon, N.Q., Edwards, C.A., Bierman, P., Metzger, J., Lee, S., Welch, C. 2003. Applications of vermicomposts to tomatoes and peppers grown in the field and strawberries grown unger high plastic tunnels. Pedobiologia (in press)
· Arancon, N.Q., Yardim, E., Edwards, C.A., Lee, S., 2003. The trophic diversity of nematode communities in soils treated with vermicomposts. Pedobiologia (in press)
· Chaoui, H., Brickner, M., Edwards, C.A., Lee, S., Arancon, N.Q. 2003. Effects of vermicomposts on the suppression of the plant diseases, Pythium (damping off), Rhizoctonia (root rot), and Verticillium (wilt). Pedobiologia. (in press)
· Gunadi, B, Edwards, C.A, Arancon, N.Q. 2002. Changes in the trophic structure of soil arthropods after application of vermicomposts. European Journal of Soil Biology 38, 161-165.
· Edwards, C.A., Chaoui, H., Brickner, M., Lee, S. and Arancon, N. 2002 Suppression of the plant disaeses, Pythium (damping off), Rhizoctonia (root rot) and Verticillum(wilt) by Vermicomposts. Proceedings of Brighton Crop Protection Conference- Pests and Diseases. Vol. II, 8B-3, 711-716
· Arancon, N., Edwards, C.A., Yardim, F., Lee, S. 2002 Management of plant parasitic nematodes by use of vermicomposts. Proceedings of Brighton Crop Protection Conference- Pests and Diseases. Vol. II, 8B-2, 705-710
· Atiyeh, R. M., N. Q. Arancon, C.A. Edwards and J.D. Metzger, 2002. Incorporation of earthworm-processed organic wastes into greenhouse container media for production of marigolds. Bioresource Technology 81:103-108.
· Atiyeh, R. M., N. Q. Arancon, C.A. Edwards and J.D. Metzger, 2000. Influence of earthworm-processed pig manure on the growth and yield of greenhouse tomatoes. Bioresource Technology, 75: (3), pp. 175-180.
· Atiyeh, R. M., N. Q. Arancon, C.A. Edwards and J.D. Metzger, 2002. Incorporation of earthworm-processed organic wastes into greenhouse container media for production of marigolds. Bioresource Technology 81:103-108.
· Atiyeh, R. M., S.S. Lee, C.A. Edwards, N. Q. Arancon, 2002. The influence of humic acids derived from earthworm-processed organic wastes on plant growth. Bioresource Technology 84: 7-14.
Contact Information:
Soil Ecology Laboratory
416 Aronoff Laboratory
318 W. 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-5483 Fax: (614) 292-2180
E-mail: arancon.1@osu.edu