[Enviro-lunch] Two Enviro-lunch-sponsored events on Dec. 8th! 11AM: Dr. Guo Shengli: effects of land use and topographic positions on soil organic carbon; 12:30PM: Pre-AGU practice talks for grad. students and postdocs

[Fernanda Santos]

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*Dear all,*

*Please note that this week's seminar will start at 11 AM. We are also
excited to host two events:*


*First event: Enviro-lunch seminar series, SE2- 224,11:00 AM -  12:00 PM
 (Dec. 8th)*

This week’s speaker is Dr. Guo Shengli from the Institute of Soil and Water
Conservation, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry,
Yangling China. We are also hosting two visiting scholars: Dr. Hu Yaxian,
and graduate student Wang Rui. After the talk, we will have time for
questions & discussions, followed by a lunch break (*light lunch will be
provided*). The bio of each visiting scholar follows below.


*Spatial variation of soil organic carbon: *

*coupling effects of land use and topographic positions on the Chinese
Loess Plateau.*


*Dr. Guo Shengli*




*Second event: Practice talks before AGU annual meeting, SE2- 224, 12:30 PM
-  3 PM  (Dec. 8th)*

 Following our lunch break, we will give opportunity for UC Merced graduate
students and postdocs to give practice talks before the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meeting scheduled for next week in San
Francisco. Please contact Rebecca Abney (rlever at ucmerced.edu) or Fernanda
Santos (fsantos4 at ucmerced.edu) if you are interested in giving a practice
talk on Dec. 8th.



Bios



*Dr. Guo Shengli:* He officially embarked his research on soil erosion and
conservation from 1995, as a research fellow at the Institute of Soil and
Water Conservation in China. After years of practical work on the field, he
resumed his education pathway with more specific focuses, and finished his
PhD at the Northwest A&F University in 2002. With special interests in
carbon cycling, he visited the Rothamsted Field Station in the UK in 2005,
then again in 2008. Based on the RothC and GIS, he expanded our current
understanding of SOC stocks and sequestration potential on the Chinese
Loess Plateau.

*Dr. Hu Yaxian*: She did her PhD in the University of Basel, Switzerland
from 2009 to 2014, specialized in temporal and spatial variation of
slope-scale SOC erosion and deposition. During her post doc, she once paid
a short visit to the UC Merced, with the aim to measure the 13C composition
in a series of sediments sampled from a freshly formed rill and
depositional fan, trying to determine the potential fate of eroded SOC on
rolling slopes in Denmark. After coming back to China, she became a
research fellow in the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation in the
Northwest A&F University since this March.

*Wang Rui*: a PhD student in her second year. By publishing 4 peer review
papers, she certainly becomes one of the best PhD candidates in her peer.
With passion and focus on soil biology, she is specially interested in the
shifts of microbial communities after different land uses or tillage
practices.



We look forward to seeing you,


Organizers for 2016-17: Rebecca Abney and Fernanda Santos

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
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