{"id":38281,"date":"2024-06-26T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences-new\/?post_type=person&#038;p=38281"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:22:46","slug":"kabybeef","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/people\/kabybeef\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Bybee-Finley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bybee-Finley leads the Agroecology Program, directs the <a href=\"https:\/\/agroecologyeducationfarm.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/our-story\/\">Agroecology Education Farm<\/a> at North Carolina State University, and teaches CS 230 and CS 430. Before joining NC&#160;State, Dr. Bybee-Finley worked as a Research Agroecologist for the Agricultural Research Service at the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Her work focuses on crop diversification practices as an adaptation strategy to climate change. Her research interests include intercropping, cover cropping, and assessing the multifunctionality of cropping systems. Dr. Bybee-Finley engages with statistical modeling, field experiments, and integrating human dimensions into research about farming practices.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bybee-Finley manages the Diverse Rotations Improve Ecosystem Services (DRIVES) Projects which networks long-term experiments that have crop rotation treatments across North America. Long-term data across a broad range of growing conditions is critical to assessing the role of crop diversity under erratic conditions (droughts) or on slow-moving variables (soil characteristics). Using multiple metrics, like productivity, economic performance, or nutrient composition, can reveal the benefits and tradeoffs of more diverse cropping systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., Agroecology with an emphasis in Human Dimensions, Cornell University (2020)<\/p>\n<p>M.S., Agronomy, Cornell University (2016)<\/p>\n<p>B.S., Biochemistry, West Virginia University (2011)<\/p>\n<p>B.A., International Studies with an emphasis in Development, West Virginia University (2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4559,"featured_media":39145,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[522],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-38281","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/38281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/38281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40139,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/38281\/revisions\/40139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=38281"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=38281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}