Dr. Nguyen Hue
Organic Soil Amendments
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
3190 Maile Way, St. John 102
Honolulu, HI 96822
Office: Sherman Lab 218/215
Telephone: (808) 956-7247
Fax: (808) 956-3894
Email: nvhue@hawaii.edu
Website: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/huen/nvh/
Areas of Interest
- Soil chemistry with particular interest in organic matter management (e.g., composting, agricultural use of sewage sludge), and in monitoring of environmental pollution.
- Soil acidity, Aluminum and Manganese chemistries, organic soil amendments and plant nutrition with focus on nutritional requirements of tree crops, especially coffee or its processing waste water, guava, and macadamia.
- Organic Farming and Environmental Remediation, especially arsenic chemistry.
Current Projects
- Chemistry and Bioavailability of Waste Constituents in Hawaii Soils
- Impacts of soil acidity and nematodes on coffee growth
- Phytoremediation of marine dredged materials and Arsenic-contaminated soils in Hawaii.
Recent Publications (last 5 years)
- Hue, N.V. 2011. Alleviating Soil Acidity with Crop Residues. Soil Sci. DOI: 10.1097/SS.0b013e31822b30f1 (volume 176:543-549)
- Ortiz-Escobar, M.E. and N.V. Hue. 2011. Changes in properties of a Hawaiian Oxisol and of vegetable growth during the transition toward organic farming. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal.42:2064-2071
- Pant A., T.J.K. Radovich, N.V. Hue, and N. Q. Arancon. 2011.Effects of Vermicompost Tea (Aqueous Extract) on Pak-choi Yield, Quality, and on Soil Biological Properties. Compost Science & Utilization (in press).
- Hue, N.V. 2010. Arsenic levels, chemistry and bioavailability in Hawaii soils. In: Gilkes RJ and Prakongkep N, eds. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of soil science. Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 978-0-646-53783-2.
- Hue, N.V. and R.L. Fox. 2010. Predicting plant-phosphorus requirements for Hawaii soils using a combination of P sorption isotherms and chemical extraction methods. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 41(2): 133-143.
- Hue, N.V. 2009. Iron and phosphorus fertilizations and the development of proteoid roots in macadamia. Plant and Soil, DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9820-0, Vol. 318:93-100.
- Pant, A.P., T.J.K. Radovich, N.V. Hue, S.T. Talcott, and K.A. Krenek. 2009. Vermicompost extracts influence growth, mineral nutrients, phytonutrients and antioxidant activity in Pak choi (Brassica rapa cv. Bonsai, Chinensis group)grown under vermicompost and chemical fertilizer. J. Sci. Food and Agric. DOI 10.1002/jsfa.3732.
- Hue, N.V. 2008. Development, impacts and management of soil acidity in Hawaii.J. Hawaiian & Pacific Agric.vol. 15.
- Ortiz-Escobar, M.E. and N.V. Hue. 2008. Temporal changes of selected chemical properties in three manure-amended soils of Hawaii. J. Bioresource Techn.99:8649-8654.
- Hue, N.V. and W. G. Cutler. Arsenic in Hawaii soils. 2007. Arsenic in Hawaii Soils (Power Point format) Proceeding of National Water Conf. Savannah, GA. Feb. 2007.
- Ortiz-Escobar, M. E. and N. V. Hue. 2007. Current developments in organic farming , p. 29-62. In S. G. Pandalai (ed.) Recent Research Developments in Soil Science , vol. 2 (2007).
- Ortiz-Escobar, M. E. and N. V. Hue. 2007. Dynamics of some chemical properties in three manure-amended soils of Hawaii (in Portuguese) Proceedings of Brazilian Soil Sci. August 2007.
- Hue, N.V., G. Uehara, R.S. Yost, and M.E. Ortiz-Escobar. 2007. Distribution of Soil Orders in Hawaii. J. Hawaiian Pacific Agric. vol. 14: 17-28
- Miysaka, S.C., N.V. Hue, and M. Dunn. 2006. Aluminum. p. 439-497. In A. Barker and D. Pilbeam (eds.) Handbook of plant nutrition. CRC Press, Boca Raton. USA.
- Ortiz-Escobar, M. E., N. V. Hue, and W. G. Cutler. 2006. Recent developments on Arsenic: contamination and remediation, p. 1-32. In S. G. Pandalai (ed.) Recent Research Developments in Bioenergetics , vol. 4 (2006).
- Cutler, W.G., N.V. Hue, M.E. Ortiz-Escobar, and T. Martin. 2006. Approaches to reduce bioaccessible arsenic in Hawaii soils. Proceeding of the 5th. International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA, May 2006.
- Leary, J.K., N.V. Hue, P.W. Singleton, and D. Borthakur. 2006. The major features of an infestation by the invasive weed legume gorse (Ules europaeus) on volvanic soils in Hawaii. Biol. Fert. Soils 42:215-223.
- Fox, R.L., R.S. Yost, R.M. Caldwell, N.V. Hue, and C.W. Smith. 2006. Lichen sulfur contents as an indicator of crop sulfur: deficiency or luxury uptake. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 37:13-24.
- Silva, J.A., R. Hamasaki, R. Paull, R. Ogoshi, D. P. Bartholomew, S. Fukuda, N.V. Hue, G. Uehara, and G. Tsuji. 2006. Lime, Gypsum, and Basaltic Dust Effects on the Calcium Nutrition and Fruit Quality of Pineapple. Acta Horticulturae 702:123-131.
Update: September 2011