Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Program: Agricultural Engineering
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, with minor in Statistics
Major Professor: Hongwei Xin
Office Address: 3101 NSRIC
Office Phone: 515-294-4254
Email: angelag@iastate.edu

Angela Green is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. She is supported as a National Science Foundation PhD Graduate Fellow, with research emphasis on controlled environment engineering, animal response to environment, and animal welfare. Angela expects to complete her PhD work in the fall of 2007.

She is from Greenville, Kentucky and earned her BS (’02) and MS (’04) in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering from the University of Kentucky, with an emphasis on controlled environments and physiological responses of transported horses. She studied animal behavior assessment methods in 2005 at Silsoe Research Institute in Bedfordshire, England, assessing tolerance of atmospheric ammonia in laboratory mice.

Currently, she is conducting her dissertation research, assessing bioenergetics and heat stress tolerance of laying hens houses at varying stocking densities, synergistic effects of temperature and atmospheric ammonia on hen preferences, tolerance on hens to reductions in stocking density, and quantification of on-farm bird level environmental conditions for different housing systems.