All presentations are at 4:00 P.M. in Ag. and Life Sciences Building, room #4000

Seminars are co-sponsored by the Subsurface Biosphere Initiative and the Department of Crop & Soil Science

Contact Markus Kleber with any questions. 

• March 30 
  • Jim Reichman - Emeritus Professor, UC Santa Barbara and past director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
    • "The Impact of Subterranean Rodents on Geologic Processes, Soils, and Plant Communities"
• April 6
  • Claire Phillips -  PhD candidate, Forest Science, OSU
    • "It Breaths! Interpreting, Measuring and Modeling Soil Respiration"


• April 13
  • Chris Swanston - Director, Northern Institute of Applied Carbon Science; Research Ecologist - Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Science Research, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, Michigan
    • "Radiocarbon and Soil Organic Matter Turnover"


• April 20
  • Mark Johnson - Research Soil Scientist, EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Corvallis
    • "Defining the 'Quality' of Soil Organic Matter"


• April 27
  • Francesca Hopkins - Senior PhD student, UC-Irvine
    • "Temperature Dependence of Soil Organic Matter Turnover"


• May 4
  • Dan Olk
    • "Biochemical Perspectives on Soil Organic Matter Structure, Humidification, and Function in Soil Processes"


• May 11
  • Oliver Chadwick
    • "Landscape and Climate Controls on the Formation of Geochemical Catenas in Southern Africa"


• May 18
  • Bruce Caldwell
    
    • "Polyphenols and Soil Organic Matter Dynamics"