Soils play a vital role in the productivity and resilience of natural and managed lands, while also cycling large amounts of carbon annually. Our lab works to understand and promote sustainable and equitable soil carbon management towards building resilient soil systems under an uncertain future.
RECENT LAB NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
12.2024 – Check out our presentations and organized sessions at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting!
10.2024 – Katerina is awarded the European Geosciences Union Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award in the Soil System Sciences Division.
09.2024 – The lab will be moving to Oregon State University in 2025! Reach out for PhD and postdoc opportunities.
09.2024 – New paper out in Nature Communications: Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle
07.2024 – Anthony joins as a DOE SCGSR Fellow!
06.2024 – New paper out in JGR Biogeosciences: Bridging 20 years of soil organic matter frameworks: Empirical support, model representation, and next steps
06.2024 – New paper out in JAMES: Simulating global terrestrial carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles with implicit and explicit representations of soil microbial activity
05.2024 – New paper out in Global Change Biology: Controls and relationships of soil organic carbon abundance and persistence vary across pedo-climatic regions
04.2024 – Anthony Stewart is awarded a DOE SCGSR Fellowship to join us at LLNL. Congrats, Anthony!
03.2024 – New matters arising paper out in Nature: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon
02.2024 – Zhen Li joins as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Zhen!
02.2024 – New paper out in Nature Geoscience: Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations
- B41D / B42C / B43F – Soils in the Anthropocene: Cross-Scale Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change
- B51C / B53E – Land Biogeochemical Cycling Under Global Environmental Change: Patterns, Drivers, and Mechanisms
- Kat Georgiou: B32C-07 – Global capacity and vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon (Invited)
- Zhen Li: GC51W-0274 – Engineering Plant Traits in Sorghum for Enhanced Carbon Sequestration
- Anthony Stewart: B42C-02 – Mineral-associated drivers of soil carbon stabilization across wetland and upland soils: evaluating redox patterns and radiocarbon age at a watershed scale
- Katie Grant: B43F-1615 – Rock Derived Carbon Contributes Radiocarbon-Free Organic Carbon to Soils Across the Continental USA
- Eric Slessarev: B41D-07 – What makes a Mollisol? The role of calcium in creating carbon-rich grassland soils
10.2024 – Katerina is awarded the European Geosciences Union Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award in the Soil System Sciences Division.
09.2024 – The lab will be moving to Oregon State University in 2025! Reach out for PhD and postdoc opportunities.
09.2024 – New paper out in Nature Communications: Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle
07.2024 – Anthony joins as a DOE SCGSR Fellow!
06.2024 – New paper out in JGR Biogeosciences: Bridging 20 years of soil organic matter frameworks: Empirical support, model representation, and next steps
06.2024 – New paper out in JAMES: Simulating global terrestrial carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles with implicit and explicit representations of soil microbial activity
05.2024 – New paper out in Global Change Biology: Controls and relationships of soil organic carbon abundance and persistence vary across pedo-climatic regions
04.2024 – Anthony Stewart is awarded a DOE SCGSR Fellowship to join us at LLNL. Congrats, Anthony!
03.2024 – New matters arising paper out in Nature: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon
02.2024 – Zhen Li joins as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Zhen!
02.2024 – New paper out in Nature Geoscience: Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations