Robert Michitsch is an Assistant Professor in the Soil & Waste Resources discipline at University of WI – Stevens Point. Dr. Michitsch teaches classes in soil fertility and plant analysis, biogeochemistry, environmental microbiology, waste management and general environmental sciences and researches interests in animal waste management, prion degradation, composting and recycling wastes to plants, efficient biogas production processes, and soil/microbial populations in different media.