Dr. Victoria Ackroyd

Assistant research scientist

Dr. Victoria Ackroyd is an Assistant research scientist under the mentorship of Dr. Kate Tully in the Agroecology Lab. She is also a Visiting Scientist in Dr. Steven Mirsky’s lab at USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Victoria majored in Environmental Horticulture and minored in Business Administration at the University of Florida, where she earned her B.S. in 2008. She shifted focus from ornamental horticulture to the use of cover crops in fruit and vegetable production and earned an M.S. in Horticulture from Michigan State University in 2010. Victoria completed her PhD at Michigan State University, where she evaluated cover crop use in agronomic systems. Victoria has maintained an interest in sustainable agriculture throughout her collegiate career, and is currently working to promote cover crop adoption in the Northeast as the Program Manager for the Northeast Cover Crops Council.