<div dir="ltr"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img height="85" width="320" class="gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429gmail-m_-8833579868538089807gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429gmail-CToWUd gmail-CToWUd" id="gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429F0CDDD22-37E9-4C38-A5F8-44C6E9107171" src="cid:ii_isrying40_157014a3e6ea5cb8"><br><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Dear all,</b></font><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please note that this week's seminar will start at 11 AM. We are also excited to host two events:</font></font></b></span></div><div><span style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#0000ff"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><u>First event: Enviro-lunch seminar series, SE2- 224,11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Dec. 8th)</u></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#0000ff"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This
week’s speaker is Dr. Guo Shengli from the </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Institute of Soil and
Water Conservation, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry,
Yangling China. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">We are also hosting two visiting scholars: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dr. Hu Yaxian, and graduate student Wang Rui. After the talk, we will have time for questions & discussions, followed by a lunch break (<font color="#0000ff"><i>light lunch will be provided</i></font>). The bio of each visiting scholar follows below.</span><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Spatial variation of soil organic carbon: <span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">coupling effects of land use and topographic positions on the
Chinese Loess Plateau.</span><span></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Guo Shengli<span></span></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><u>Second event: Practice talks before AGU annual meeting, SE2- 224, 12:30 PM - 3 PM (Dec. 8th)</u></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><u><br></u></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></font><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please contact Rebecca Abney (</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:rlever@ucmerced.edu">rlever@ucmerced.edu</a>) or Fernanda Santos</span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> (fsantos4</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">@<a href="http://ucmerced.edu">ucmerced.edu</a>)</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">if you are interested in giving a practice talk on Dec. 8th. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><div style="text-align:center;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:12.8px">Bios</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dr. Guo Shengli:</span></b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> 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.</span><br style="text-align:start">
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<b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-align:start">Dr. Hu Yaxian</span></span></b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: 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.</span><br style="text-align:start">
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<b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-align:start">Wang Rui</span></span></b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: 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.</span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span></span></span></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"> </span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you,</font></p><div style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Organizers for 2016-17: Rebecca Abney and Fernanda Santos</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.4pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</font></p></div></div>
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