Rachel Schattman

Expertise

🚜 Agriculture, 🌡 Climate change, 🕸Ecology, 🏔 Environmental sciences, 🍞 Food security, 👩‍🌾 Gardening, 🚿 Irrigation, 🏞 Land and natural resource use, 🌿 Organic food production, 🧹Pollution response, 🟫 Soils, 💧Water quality, 🫐 Wild blueberries

Schattman’s research aims to lead to agricultural resilience in a changing climate while simultaneously protecting natural resources. She works with specialty crop producers and agricultural advisors to identify and address production challenges, specifically through the lens of climate change adaptation. This approach is grounded in complementary traditions of agroecology and participatory action research. Current research includes studying how forage and vegetable crops interact with PFAS in affected soils. She teaches courses on cropping and sustainable food systems. Visit Schattman’s biography to learn more.

A bubble chart demonstrating a 50% research 50% teaching appointment split.
Schattman balances time between teaching (50%) courses about sustainable horticulture and agriculture, sustainable food systems, agroecology and sustainable cropping systems, and research (50%) on agricultural resilience in a changing climate while simultaneously protecting natural resources.

Appointment details

Schattman’s work is supported by:

  • School of Food and Agriculture at the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
  • Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

Experiment Station contributions

  • Current project: Diversified agroecosystems and climate change: Building adaptive capacity, investing in mitigation. Hatch project number ME022332.