Team – Soil Biogeochemistry

Principal Investigator

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Professor of 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

Katie Rocci

Postdoc

Research focus: Deep soil organic matter, soil biogeochemical feedbacks to climate change. See also: Google Scholar Page

Graduate Students

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.

Adrianne Seiden

Ph.D. Student

Research focus: Effect of land management practices on SOM dynamics

Precious Nyabami

Ph.D. Student

Research focus: Pyrogenic carbon biogeochemistry in post-fire ecosystems, Pyrogenic carbon - mineal associations

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

Undergraduate Student and Post-baccaluarate Researchers

Tyler Hooks

April Sanchez

Jahnet Reyes-Rios

Lab Alumni

Former Postdocs

Teneille Nel

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Stephany Chacon

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Kyungjin Min

Now at Seoul National University

Si Gao

Now at California State University, Sacramento

Yang Yang

Now at Aurburn University

Hannah Palmer

Now at University of Caliofornia, Davis

Todd Longbottom

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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

Leila Wehab

Now at Yale University

Manisha Dolui

Now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Maeve McCormick

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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

Debbo Elias

Nayeli Basulto

Roza Ruis

Charlotte Calavario

Mathew McClintock

Alexander Newman

Abigail Dziegiel

Hiroto Muranaka

Laura Jelpa

Stephen Ho

Jennifer Gurrero

Alex Gueorguieva

High school intern

Jessica Meyer

Research Associate