Dr Brenda J. Buck is an interdisciplinary scientist who excels in multiple field and laboratory aspects of warm desert research, including studying the processes that create and transport mineral dust and its effect on human health.
She has just under $19 million in grant funding over her career. Dr. Buck has served as a researcher, collaborator, and teacher for field expeditions to 18 countries on 6 continents. She has published 374 items which include: 73 peer-reviewed journal articles, 18 peer-reviewed non-journal publications, 94 non-peer-reviewed reports, and 189 published abstracts. Dr Buck has been widely recognized by her peers for her outstanding achievements, including being elected to the Fellowship in both the Soil Science Society of America (2012) and the Geological Society of America (2008).
In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious M.L. & C.M. Jackson Award from the Soil Science Society of America for outstanding contributions in Soil Mineralogy/Chemistry. She was the 16th recipient, and the 1st female to receive this award. Dr. Buck has also been honored by receiving the Outstanding Plant and Environmental Science Department Alumnus Award (NMSU, 2015) and the Editor’s Citation for Excellence, Associate Editor, Soil Science Society of America Journal for outstanding professional contribution in the oversight of manuscript reviews (2016).
She is currently an Association for Women Geoscientists Distinguished Lecturer (2022-present), and recently received the Alumni Geology Hall of Fame at New Mexico State University (2024).
