Description: I am a Research Soil Scientist and Postdoctoral Associate with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Boise, Idaho.
Soil Biogeochemist (views are my own…)
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences Department at University of Texas at El Paso. My research focuses on land-atmosphere carbon exchange and the importance of soil inorganic carbon in native and agricultural dryland ecosystems in Idaho, New Mexico, and Texas. This work uses eddy covariance measures of carbon and water fluxes to examine ecosystem response to episodic or irrigated water additions, as well as geochemical and isotopic techniques to determ
Previously, I completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food unit in Adelaide, Australia. My work examines soil carbon stabilization mechanisms, integrating them into ecosystem carbon models. This work involves the use of molecular and stable and radiometric isotopic techniques to track the fate of carbon through dryland ecosystems. Prior to this, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the US Department of Agriculture — Agricultural Research Service in Boise, Idaho, USA.