Grant Edmund Cardon

Grant Edmund Cardon (born July 8, 1961) is a professor at Utah State University in the Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate, College of Agricultural Science. He is also the Extension Soil Specialist for Utah State and serves to educate and train Utah county Extension agents on soil management issues, assist county agents in the training of local clientele, provide research in applied/practical soil management in Utah and the Western U.S., and handle public inquiries regarding soil management issues in both urban and agricultural settings. Cardon is also the current coordinator of the North American Proficiency Testing Program of the Soil Science Society of America and manages the quarterly evaluation of over 160 subscribing soil, plant, and water testing labs.
Early Life and Education
Cardon was born in Santa Monica, California to Phillip Edmund and Ruth Cardon. He is the oldest of seven children. Cardon attended grade school in Canoga Park, California and high school at Thousand Oaks High School, in Thousand Oaks, California. He attended the same highschool as many other notable people such as Michael Richards, Kurt Russel, Heather Locklear, and Marion Jones. In high school, Cardon participated in track and cross country. As a child, Cardon lived near many John Wayne movie sets and often visited Jungleland, where Hollywood Studios and Barnum & Bailey housed all of their exotic animals when not in use, instead of visiting the LA Zoo.
Cardon’s family relocated to Cache Valley, Utah in 1980 while he was serving an LDS mission in Bolivia. In May, 1982, Cardon returned to the United States and began his undergraduate studies at Utah State University in the fall of ‘82. He graduated from USU in 1986 with a BS degree in Agronomy from the Department of Soils and Biometeorology. Cardon then entered grad school at the University of California, Riverside and graduated in 1990 with a PhD in Soil Physics.
Career
After Graduating from the University of Cal., Riverside, Cardon worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the USDA-ARS in Fresno, California from 1990-92. While there, his research was focused on salinity and irrigation water management in cotton, processing tomato, alfalfa and almonds, and the phytoremediation of selenium-laden soils in the Central Valley of California.
In 1992 Cardon worked as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Soil Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He worked as a professor at CSU with an emphasis in irrigation management and environmental soils until 2004.
Cardon was hired as Associate Professor and Extension Soil Specialist at Utah State University in Logan, Utah in January 2005. He was tenured in 2010 and made full professor in 2015.
In addition to his academic position, Cardon has been the coordinator of the NAPT Program of the Soil Science Society of America since July 1, 2010. He manages the quarterly evaluation of over 160 subscribing soil, plant, and water testing laboratories that are located throughout the entire U.S. and Canada. The program provides laboratories with soil, plant, and water samples, summarizes the accuracy and precision of the analytical results, and provides detailed results to each lab.
Cardon is also an associate editor for the Soil Science Society of America’s Journal of Environmental Quality.
Cardon has over 40 journal articles, book chapters, and other technical publications in addition to over 20 presentations and abstract writings,.
Personal life
Cardon met his wife, Kay Lyn, in 1982 at Utah State University. She was the daughter of a renowned soil physicist and University Professor, John Hanks. In 1983 they were married in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple. The two have five children together, Brock Edmund (b. 1985), Trevin John (b. 1987), Mason Hanks (b. 1990), Kylie Kay (b. 1992), and Stacia Ruth (b. 1996, d. 1996). Cardon currently has seven grandchildren.<ref name="NAPT"/>

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