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Dec. 2020: Baas paper out online, check it out under publications.
Nov. 2020: Peter Baas, Odum School PhD, gets paper accepted using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy in our laboratory to predict soil carbon quality, congrats Peter.
Oct. 2020: Emma Hauser in the Billings lab at UKansas gets root dynamics paper published, excellent job Emma.
Sept. 2020: New NRCS project funded updating soil-site productivity relationships in GA.
August 2020: Fernanda Oliveira joins the lab, welcome Nanda!
July 2020: Zhine Wang successfully defend his MS, way to go Wang.
June 2020: UGA Research Resumption, good news!
June 2020: New pub with Ricardo Figueiredo "Agricultural Impacts on Hydrobiogeochemical Cycling in the Amazon: Is ther any solution?"May 2020: Two new chapters out in Global Change and Forest Soils with recently retired USFS scientist Jennifer Knoepp, "Long-term forest soil research: lessons learned from the US experience." and "History of forest soil knowledge and research."
April 2020: New pub out with Dan Richter "Soil production and the soil geomorphology legacy of Grove Karl Gilbert."
Mar 2020: New pub out with Emory graduate student Sam Peters "Soil trace gas fluxes in living mulch and conventional agricultural systems." Check out the pubs page.
Feb 2020: Rachel Ryland, past MS, just got manuscript accpeted to Geoderma. "MAPPING DEPTH TO THE ARGILLIC HORIZON ON HISTORICALLY FARMED SOIL CURRENTLY UNDER FORESTS", will post link when it is out. Congrats, Rachel.
Feb 2020: Soil Science Society of Georgia annual meeting in Athens, Feb 24-25, be there.
Jan 2020: Check out our newly funded projects on the research page.
Jan 2020: Jill Qi, past PhD, just published deep soil water usage paper, check it out https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00093 Dec 2019: Aaron Joslin, past PhD, publication out in Agroforestry special issue. This is a unique study over 11 years and two rotations. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/12/1125
Dec 2019: Maryam Foroughi successfully defended her dissertation! Well done Maryam.
Nov 2019: Zhine Wang, MS student, presented his first poster at SSSA Nov. 2019. Plant phosphorus uptake in a P-limited soil environment.
Sept 2019: Daniel presented at IUFRO in Curitiba, Brazil Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Methane (CH4) Efflux: Impacts of Silvicultural and Climate Variation.
Aug 2019: Daniel presented at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa na Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil Aug. 2019. A Decade of Improved-fallow Slash-and-Mulch Agroforestry
June 2019: Maryam Foroughi, PhD, submitted her first dissertation chapter to the Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone as a boo chapter - The role of hillslope and land use history on P distribution - good luck
Zhine Wang, MS, submitted his first abstract to a professional society meet for SSSA - Tree phosphorus uptake from argillic and saprolite horizons in a weathered Ultisol in the Calhoun - we hope there are many more - June 2019
Daniel was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Brazil in summer 2019 and 2020 - March 2019
Caitlin Hodges had her MS thesis manuscript accepted to Catena, congrats - March 2019
Great trip to SSSA in San Diego where work from Markewitz, Foroughi, Ryland, and Caitlin Hodges presented (Abstracts here: scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2019sssa/meetingapp.cgi/ - Jan 2019
Dr. Lori Sutter went to Taiwan presenting a keynote at the 2018 International Wetlands Convention and representing the Society of Wetland Scientists - Nov 2018
Dr. Jingeng Song, who was a visiting scientist in our lab, had a manuscript published that she worked on writing while at UGA. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090510
MS student Robert Brown just got a manuscript accepted to Forest Ecology and Management. "Soil heterotrophic respiration: Measuring and modeling seasonal variation and silvicultural impacts." Way to go, Robert! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.08.018
Dr. Joslin! On July 30, 2018 Aaron successfully defended his dissertation research. Congratulations, Aaron!