 Problem Solvers
Doug Kenfield
Areas Doug Kenfield is Knowledgeable in:
Natural products as agricultural amendments, medicine, nutrients
Water quality improvement
Reforestation
Plant propagation and cultivation Techniques Doug Kenfield Uses:
Core analysis, ie, identify the origin of the problem then address appropriate ameliorative approaches. If these are financially constraining or uncontrollable, select next best solution. Doug Kenfield's Problem Solving Skills:
- Sustainable Agriculture/Permaculture
- Rhizoflora as amendments
- Mycoremediation
- Natural Product Isolation & Purification
- Native plant shrub and tree propagation, cultivation, installation, maintenance
- Riparian Restoration
- Setting up sustainable re-entry program for recently released prisoners
Doug Kenfield's Problem Solving Experience:
- Initiating a remediation project to clean up the Rio Huatanay, a river flowing through Cusco, Peru, which is basically an open sewer. Have established connections with participants from the University San Antonio Ablad and local activists. Riparian restoration, mycoremediation, and cash-flow projects are all planned to clean up then sustain the remediation.
- Spent nearly 20 years in medical and botanical research labs -- federal and state -- isolating, purifying and identifying modes-of-action for natural products from plants, fungi, and bacteria.
- Spent a short consultancy in the Shandong Province of China helping a private group establish a large-scale tree and shrub nursery.
- Wrote up remediation plan for cost-effective abatement of cyanide leaching into ground water from aluminum manufacturer's slag pile.
- Wrote up biological portion of site remediation of abandoned gravel pit situated on an island in Puget Sound.
- Have extensive experience tutoring and mentoring "challenged"students in math, science, reading, and writing.
- Established and managed a native plant nursery for a Native American tribe to replace exotic vegetation with native flora. Utilized labor from local penal system. Helped design and implement a re-entry program to assist recently released prisoners become productive citizens.
- Worked as a trouble-shooter for a major seedling nursery solving production problems and interfacing with client problems. Set up a brokering program to integrate out-sourced plant material into sales and shipping stream.
- Just starting to work with a micro-banking organization in Peru to help recruit funds for expanding their operations to serve both urban and rural business-people and agriculturists.
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