Group members

Principal Investigator

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

PI; Professor, Soil Biogeochemistry; Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology

Research focus: see Research page
PI info, see Prof. Berhe's page or AA Berhe CV

Postdocs

Kyungjin Min

Postdoc

Research focus: deep soil organic matter storage and stabilization

co-mentored by Wolfgang Busch (Salk Insitute)

Todd Longbottom

Postdoc

Research Focus: Deep Soil Organic Matter (SOM) dynamics; Application of spectroscopy to determine SOM composition; and role of fire in SOM dynamics

Si Gao

Postdoc

Research focus: Biochar and pyrogenic carbon in soil C, N, and P cycling; sustainable forest and agricultural practices on soil health. See also: www.gaosi.weebly.com. Co-mentored by Profs. Rebecca Ryals and Teamrat A. Ghezzehei

Hannah Palmer

Postdoc

Research focus: geochemical tracing of wildfire: implications for paleofire reconstruction and wildfire pollutant distribution; investigation of past fire, oceans, and climate. See also: www.hannahmpalmer.com

Graduate Students

Manisha Dolui

Ph.D. Candidate

Research focus: Vulnerability of Buried Soil Carbon due to Future Climate Change

Leila Wehab

Ph.D. Candidate

Research focus: Effect of changing precipitation patterns on Soil organic nitrogen dynamics

Melinda Gonzales

Ph.D. Student

Research focus: role of biochar in reducing greenhouse gas fluxes from soil: effects of feedstock, pyrolysis temperature, and effectiveness for reducing methane fluxes form dairy waste.

Zachary Malone

Ph.D. Student

Research focus: Effect of land management practices on SOM dynamics. Co-advised by Prof. Rebecca Ryals

Anna Jurusik

Ph.D. Student

Research focus: Pyrogenic carbon dynamics in soil, Effect of changes in precipitation on SOM dynamics

Maeve McCormick

Ph.D. Student

Coupled biogeochemical and hydrological response of soils to changing climate. Co-advised by Prof. Teamrat A. Ghezzehei

Undergraduate Student Researchers

Debbo Elias

Charlotte Calavario

Former Group Members

Former Postdocs

Yang Yang

Now at University of California, Riverside

Nate Bogie

Now at San Jose State University

Fernanda Santos

Now at OakRidge National Lab

Michael Kaiser

Now at University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Deoyani V. Sarkhot

Now at nature.farm

Former Graduate Students

Morgan Barnes

Now at Pacific Northwest National Lab

Kimber Moreland

Now at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Lixia Jin

Rebecca Abney

Now at University of Georgia

Erin Stacy

Now at Mariposa Highschool

Samuel Negusse Araya

Now at Stanford University

Emma McCorkle

Now at California State Water Resources Control Board

Chelsea Arnold

Now at University of California, Merced (CalTeach)

Former Visting Scholars

Ben Sulman

Postdoc, Princeton University/NOAA GFDL; USA

Ray Alves

Ph.D. student; University of Brazilia; BRAZIL

Chun Liu

Ph.D. student; Hunan University and State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau; CHINA

Moritz Mainka

Undergraduate student, University of Augsburg GERMANY

Veronica Ullman

Undergraduate student, University of Augsburg GERMANY

Xin Gao

Ph.D. student; Northwest A&F University CHINA

Sebastian Doetterl

Postdoc, University of Augsburg GERMANY

Yaxian Hu

Ph.D. student; University of Basel SWITZERLAND

Elisabet Nadeu

Ph.D. student; Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS) SPAIN

Former Undergraduate Student researchers, high school interns, and research associate

Mathew McClintock

Alexander Newman

Abigail Dziegiel

Hiroto Muranaka

Laura Jelpa

Stephen Ho

Jennifer Gurrero

Alex Gueorguieva

High school intern

Jessica Meyer

Research Associate

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