Corey Lawrence

PI

Corey brings expertise in erosion, geochemistry, soil and water chemistry, and ecosystems to the group.

Susan E. Crow

co-PI

Susan explores all aspects of soil organic matter and carbon - from mechanisms to modeling and organo-mineral interactions to policy implementation.

Kate Heckman

co-PI

Kate is a soil biogeochemist for the USDA Forest Service. Her work includes the application of radiocarbon to earth systems science questions, the evaluation of land management and disturbance on soil C stability and quality, as well as organo-mineral interactions.

Marco Keiluweit

co-PI

Marco brings inspring insights to the team. His foci are identifying molecular-level mechanisms controlling organic matter cycling, quantifying the importance of mechanisms to fluxes in microenvironments, and examining climate change impacts on pathways and rates.

Joseph Blankinship

Fellow

Joey thinks about triangles

Joshua P Schimel

Participant

Josh brings senior expertise in soil C and N cycling, connecting processes and models, and dryland and Arctic ecosystems to the team and keeps them focused. His interest is in rejuvenating conceptual models for soil carbon cycling to engage organisms, minerals, and the complex structure of soil.

Christina Schädel

Participant

Christina brings expertise in synthesis science, meta-analysis, incubation studies, and soil carbon dynamics to the team. She is a biogeochemist and plant ecophysiologist and coordinates the Permafrost Carbon Network, a data-synthesis based research program on the vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change.

Erika Marin-Spiotta

Participant

Erika brings expertise in landscape disturbance effects, ancient soil reservoirs, and tropical carbon cycling to the team. She uses isotopes and spectroscopic methods to track sources and measure turnover in her research exploring transfers from terrestrial to aquatic systems and relationships between species composition and soil organic matter dynamics during times of ecosystem change.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Participant

Asmeret is a soil biogeochemist. Her work focuses on stabilization mechanisms and fate of soil organic matter in systems undergoing change (ex. erosion, fire, and climate change). Her expertise and perspective expands our understanding of soil processes in systems experiencing natural and/or anthropogenic perturbation in order to understand fundamental principles governed by geomorphology, and contemporary modifications introduced by changes in landuse and climate.

Aaron Thompson

Participant

Aaron brings expertise on soil chemistry and physicochemical dynamics

Craig Rasmussen

Participant

Craig thinks beyond the clay paradigm of soil C stabilization

Alain Plante

Participant

Alain always brings his unique perspective to the team, pulling from his deep expertise in organo-mineral interactions and novel thermal analytical approach to understanding the potential role of energetics in soil organic matter stability.

Jennifer Druhan

Participant

Jenny contributes expertise on reaction transport modeling

Will Wieder

Participant

Will contributes perspectives on global scale soil biogeochemistry and land surface modeling

Carlos Sierra

Participant

Carlos talks non-sense about theories and models, and maintains this website

Rota Wagai

Participant

Rota contributes expertise on soil minerology and fractionation methods

Caitlin E. Hicks Pries

Participant

Caitlin explores the vulnerability of soil carbon to climate change using field and lab experiments.

Alison Hoyt

Participant

Alison uses isotopic techniques to explore carbon cycling in soils and ecosystems

Ariel Léger

Participant

Ariel thinks about the central role that soil organic matter plays in healthy soils and the global carbon cycle. His current research is focused on understanding mechanisms of soil organic matter (de)stabilization in the arid and semi-arid Southwest and the potential for leveraging this knowledge to increase the amount of stable carbon in dryland soils.

Nancy Cavallaro

Participant

Nancy is joining the research community to reconnect and share her knowledge of soil chemistry and enthusiasm for soil carbon to help solve global environmental problems.

Jeffrey Beem-Miller

Participant

When not hacking away at ISRaD, Jeff ponders the pathways of decadally cycling soil carbon.