X. Liu, P.B. Reich… K.S. Rocci… J. Liu. 2025. Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101465 

A., Jilling, A.S., Grandy, A.B. Daly, R. Hestrin, A. Possinger, R. Abramoff, A. Cates, K. Dynarski, K. Georgiou, K. Heckman, R. Phillips, M. Keiluweit, A. Lang, K.S. Rocci, I. Shabtai, N. Sokol, E. Whalen. 2025. Evidence for the existence and ecological relevance of fast-cycling mineral-associated organic matter. Communications Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02681-8 

K.S. Rocci, D. Pierson, F. Jevon, A. Polussa, A. Oliverio, M. Bradford, P.B. Reich, W.R. Wieder. 2025. Integrating microbial community data into an ecosystem-scale model to predict litter decomposition in the face of climate change. Global Change Biology. tps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70352 

K. Georgiou, D. Angers, R.E. Champiny, M.F. Cotrufo, M.E. Craig, S. Doetterl, A.S. Grandy, J.M. Lavallee, Y. Lin, E. Lugato, C. Poeplau, K.S. Rocci, S.A. Schweizer, J. Six, W.R Wieder. In Press. Soil carbon saturation: what do we really know? Global Change Biology. 

K.S. Rocci, M.F. Cotrufo, J. Ernakovich, E. Foster, S. Frey, K. Georgiou, A.S. Grandy, A. Malhotra, P.B. Reich, E.P. Schlerman, W.R. Wieder. 2024. Bridging 20 years of soil organic matter frameworks: empirical support, model representation, and next steps. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 129, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007964

W. R. Wieder, M. D. Hartman, E. Kyker-Snowman, B. Eastman, K. Georgiou, D. Pierson, K. S. Rocci, A. S. Grandy. 2024. Simulating global terrestrial carbon-nitrogen biogeochemical cycles with implicit and explicit representations of soil microbial activity. Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004156

K.S. Rocci, C. C. Cleveland, B. A. Eastman, K. Georgiou, A.S. Grandy, M.D. Hartman, E. Hauser, H. Holland-Moritz, E. Kyker-Snowman, D. Pierson, P.B. Reich, E.P. Schlerman, W.R. Wieder. 2023. Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109272 

K.S. Rocci, M.F. Cotrufo, J.S. Baron. 2023. Proximity to roads does not modify inorganic nitrogen deposition in a topographically complex, high traffic, subalpine forest. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 234, 761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-023-06762-2 

K.S. Rocci, M. Bird, J.M. Blair, A.K. Knapp, C. Liang, M.F. Cotrufo, 2023. Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 185, 109145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109145  

B. Tang, K.S. Rocci, A. Lehmann, M.C. Rillig. 2023. Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality. Global Change Biology, 29, 7, 1971-1983. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16588 

K. S. Rocci, E. W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, S. E. Hobbie, K. S. Barker, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, C. J. Stevens, X. Raynaud, J.L. Moore, J. D. Bakker, M. F. Cotrufo. 2022. Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands. Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00932-w 

K. E. O. Todd-Brown… K. S. Rocci… M. L. Younger. 2022. Review and Synthesis: The promise of big soil data, moving current practices towards future potential. Biogeosciences, 19, 3505–3522, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3505-2022 

K. S. Rocci, J. M. Lavallee, C. E. Stewart, M. F. Cotrufo. 2021. Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis. Science of The Total Environment, 793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148569. 

K.S. Rocci, S.J. Fonte, J.C. von Fischer, M.F. Cotrufo. 2019. Nitrogen Dynamics in an Established Alfalfa Field under Low Biochar Application Rates. Soil Systems, 3(4), 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems3040077

E.J.T. Levin, P.J. DeMott, K.J. Suski, Y. Boose, T.C.J. Hill, C.S. McCluskey, G.P. Schill, K. Rocci, H. Al‐Mashat, L.J. Kristensen, G. Cornwell, K. Prather, J. Tomlinson, F. Mei, J. Hubbe, M. Pekour, R. Sullivan, L.R. Leung, S.M. Kreidenweis. 2019. Characteristics of ice nucleating particles in and around California winter storms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

P. J. DeMott, T. C. J. Hill, M. D. Petters, A. K. Bertram, Y. Tobo, R. H. Mason, K. J. Suski, C. S. McCluskey, E. J. T. Levin, G. P. Schill, Y. Boose, A. M. Rauker, A. J. Miller, J. Zaragoza, K. Rocci, N. E. Rothfuss, H. P. Taylor, J. D. Hader, C. Chou, J. A. Huffman, U. Pöschl, A. J. Prenni, and S. M. Kreidenweis (2017) Comparative measurements of ambient atmospheric concentrations of ice nucleating particles using multiple immersion freezing methods and a continuous flow diffusion chamber. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11227-11245.

Solicited 

Rocci, K.S., D. Pierson, F. Jevon, A. Polussa, A. Oliverio, M. Bradford, P. Reich, W. Wieder. Integrating Microbial Community Data Into an Ecosystem Scale Model to Predict Litter Decomposition in the Face of Climate Change. Oral presentation at: Ecological Society of America Meeting. 2025 August 10-14; Baltimore, MD.

Rocci, K.S., P.B. Reich, W.R. Wieder. Modeling plant-microbe interactions. Oral presentation at: MicrobeNet^Net Colloquium, 2025 March 19-22; Knoxville, TN.

Rocci, K. S., D. Pierson, F. Jevon, A. Polussa, A. Oliverio, M. Bradford, P. Reich, W. Wieder. Calibrating a soil biogeochemistry model to empirical drivers of litter decomposition identifies uncertainties in translating empirical microbial community data to ecosystem-scale models. Oral presentation at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2024 Dec 9-13; Washington, D.C.

Rocci, K. S., A. S. Grandy, K. Georgiou, E.P. Schlerman, C. C. Cleveland, M. F. Cotrufo, B.A. Eastman, J. Ernakovich, E. Foster, S. Frey, M. D. Hartman, E. Hauser, H. Holland-Moritz, E. Kyker-Snowman, D. Pierson, A. Malhotra, P. B. Reich, W. R. Wieder. Evaluating representations of mineral-associated organic matter carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil biogeochemistry models. Oral presentation at: Tri-Societies (Soil Science Society of America) Annual Meeting, 2024 Dec 10-13; San Antonio, TX.

Rocci, K. S. and M.F. Cotrufo. Soil carbon and nitrogen responses to global change are informed by soil organic matter fractions. Oral presentation at: European Geophysical Union, 2023 April 24-28; Vienna, Austria

Other presentations

Rocci, K. S., M.I. Bird, J. M. Blair, A.K. Knapp, C. Liang, and M. F. Cotrufo. Soil organic matter as modified by thirty years of increased precipitation at a tallgrass prairie. Oral and poster presentations at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2022 December 12-16; Chicago, IL & Soil Ecology Society, 2022 May 17-19; Richland, WA.

Rocci, K. S., K. S. Barker, J. M. Lavallee, C. E. Stewart, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, S. E. Hobbie, J. D. Bakker, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, X. Raynaud, C. J. Stevens, M. F. Cotrufo. Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change is informed by mineral-associated and particulate organic matter. Oral and poster presentations  at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2021 December 13-17; New Orleans, LA & Ecological Society of America, 2020 August 3-6; Virtual.

Rocci, K. S., J. Lavallee, and M.F. Cotrufo. Soil organic carbon response to climate warming depends on its distribution between particulate and mineral-associated organic matter pools. Oral presentation at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2020 December 1-17; Virtual.

Rocci, K. S., J. Lavallee, and M.F. Cotrufo. Not all soil carbon is made equal: mineral associated and particulate organic matter carbon respond differently to global environmental change. Oral presentation at: Graduate Climate Conference, 2020 Oct 30-Nov 1; Virtual.

Rocci, K. S., J. Lavallee, and M.F. Cotrufo.  Can soil carbon be a climate solution when it is threatened by warming? Oral presentation at: CSU Speaks (a community outreach event), 2020 October 23; Virtual.

Rocci, K. S., S. Fonte, and M.F. Cotrufo. Can biochar-plant interactions alter the fate of fertilizer nitrogen to create a more sustainable agricultural system? Oral presentation at: SSSA International Soils Meeting; 2019 Jan 6-9; San Diego, CA.