<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img height="85" width="320" class="gmail-m_-9024364495864537350gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429gmail-m_-8833579868538089807gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-9024364495864537350gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-9024364495864537350gmail-CToWUd gmail-CToWUd" id="gmail-m_-9024364495864537350gmail-m_-7342162152261142199m_-8801867091515754429F0CDDD22-37E9-4C38-A5F8-44C6E9107171" src="cid:ii_isrying40_157014a3e6ea5cb8"><br>​<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Dear all,</b></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><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: </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></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</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><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"><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"><a href="mailto:rlever@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">rlever@ucmerced.edu</a>) or Fernanda Santos</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> (fsantos4</font><font color="#000000">@<a href="http://ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">ucmerced.edu</a>)</font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><wbr> </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><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><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"><br style="text-align:start"><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"><br style="text-align:start"><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></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>
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