[Enviro-lunch] Welcome back to Enviro-lunch this semester

[Kyungjin Min]

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Hello all,

Hope you started another great semester.  We would like to draw your attention on weekly Enviro-lunch seminars, which will be held at SRE 475 between 12-1 pm every Thursday.

This semester, speakers will present their research (e.g., hydrology modeling, pedogenesis, redox processes, aerosol impacts on climate, environmental policy, life cycle analysis) and research-related skills (e.g., making homepage using R, finding funds, working in environmental companies).

Our first speaker of the semester is Yang Yang, a postdoc at UC Merced (2/6). He will present "Altitudinal patterns of nutrient fluxes and pools at the Sierra Nevada".

Abstract: The earth’s critical zone sustains nearly all terrestrial life because it is a near surface environment where rock, soil, water, air, and plants interact. We synthesized our existing measurements at the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory and Kings River Experimental Watershed, the two co-located complementary long-term research stations in California, to answer both basic and applied biogeochemical questions including: 1. How elevational gradient influences nutrient fluxes and storages in biosphere (i.e. plants), lithosphere (i.e., soil and rock) and hydrosphere (i.e. water)? 2. How biosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere influence each other spatially and temporally in terms of nutrient dynamics. 3. How disturbance (i.e. thinning) impacts nutrient fluxes and thus storages in the critical zone.
Bio: He is a postdoc working at the Southern Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced. He is  interested in biogeochemical cycle (e.g. carbon, nitrogen, mercury) in forested watersheds. He earned a M.S. in forest ecology and management in 2015 and a PhD in Environmental Science in 2018, both at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).

We look forward to seeing you there.

KJ and Yang

Organizers for Spring 2020: KJ Min and Yang Yang
Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe



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