Jack Rechcigl

John "Jack" Edward Rechcigl (born February 27, 1960)

Early life and education Rechcigl was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. His parents, Mila Rechcigl and Eva Edwards Rechcigl, were refugees from Communist and Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Career Rechcigl joined the University of Florida in 1986 as an assistant professor of Soil Science and Water Quality. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1996. In 1999, he was named a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor.

In 2000, he was appointed associate director of the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC) at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in Bradenton, Florida. He later completed administrative training at Harvard University and became center director in 2001.

Rechcigl was the interim director of the Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center (FLREC) since 2020 and became the center director in 2021.

Professionally, Rechcigl was elected a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 1998, and the Soil Science Society of America in 1999. He was also elected as a fellow of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Authorship Rechigl edited or co-edited five books for the Agriculture and Environment series, published by Lewis/CRC Press:

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