Changes in microbial communities along redox gradients…
In collaboration with Janet Jansson (now with PNNL), we published this study in Environmental Microbiology Reports, showing that redox gradients are a dominant force in […]
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Methane suppression by iron and humic acids in soils of the Arctic Coastal Plain
Recently graduated Ph.D. Student, Kimberly Miller, published part of her dissertation in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, showing that the addition of alternative electron acceptors, ferric […]
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Published in PNAS: Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget
Congratulations to Donatella Zona for getting this awesome paper published in PNAS, and even getting her photo on the cover of the issue. This resulted […]
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Rainfall Manipulation Experiment at SMER
We are in the 4th year of an NSF-funded rainfall manipulation experiment at Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, part of SDSU’s Field Station Program. The experiment […]
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Ars Bioarctica
In late winter 2016, I traveled to Finland for my sabbatical. This included a Science-Art Residency program (with the incomparable artist, Kim Reasor) at the […]
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Changes in microbial communities along redox gradients…
Principle component analysis of variation in microbial community structure by topography...
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Methane suppression by iron and humic acids in soils of the Arctic Coastal Plain
Recently graduated Ph.D. Student, Kimberly Miller, published part of her dissertation...
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Published in PNAS: Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget
Congratulations to Donatella Zona for getting this awesome paper published in PNAS,...
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Rainfall Manipulation Experiment at SMER
We are in the 4th year of an NSF-funded rainfall manipulation experiment at Santa...
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Ars Bioarctica
In late winter 2016, I traveled to Finland for my sabbatical. This included a Science-Art...
Recent Posts
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Iron reduction in soils of the Alaskan Arctic
From 2009-2012, we were funded by the NSF to study the importance of iron (Fe(III)) reduction as a dominant anaerobic process in soils of the […]
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We’ve got Acidobacteria
Acidobacteria are highly abundant in most soil bacterial communities, but are rarely cultured in the lab. The ones that have been cultured grow very slowly […]
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Rate-yield tradeoffs and soil respiration in a high elevation forest
While studying seasonal changes in microbial growth kinetics in soils of a subalpine forest in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, I noticed a negative relationship between […]
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Differential responses of native and exotic coastal sage scrub plant species to N additions and the soil microbial community
JDPE student, Francis Bozzolo, published part of his dissertation in Plant and Soil. Part of the motivation for this study was that the dominant shrubs […]
