Samuel and Emma successfully defended their Masters Theses and are moving on to bigger and better things. Congratulations both!

In the Berhe biogeochemistry lab at UC Merced they studied:

• Emma McCorkle: Determining source of eroded soil organic carbon in low order Sierra Nevada Catchments (Emma was co-advised by Stephen C. Hart)
• Samuel Negusse Araya: Effect of Combustion Temperature on Soil and Soil Organic Matter Properties: A Study of Soils from the Western Elevation Transect in Central Sierra Nevada, California