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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Hello Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please join us for a talk this <b>THURSDAY 3/22</b> by Daoyuan Wang, 12-1pm in Room SE2-302. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Impact of Biochar on Soil Aggregation and Water Retention Characteristics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Abstract:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Biochar soil amendments have been regarded as a low-cost soil carbon sequestration strategy. We investigated the impact of two distinct types of biochar on
soil chemical properties, microbial communities, soil aggregation and aggregate associated C within two California agricultural soils. We also studied the impact of biochar on water retention properties of two typical California agricultural soils using pressure
plate apparatus and a neutron imaging method to study spatial and temporal distribution of water in biochar amended sample. A biochar field was established 6 years ago to investigate those research questions under field condition at Russell Ranch Sustainable
Agriculture Facility at UC Davis. I will be presenting our recent findings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Bio:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Daoyuan is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis with Dr. Kate Scow. He received a B.S. from Donghua University (Shanghai, China)
in 2009. He was a visiting researcher in China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research from 2009 to 2011 and a visiting scholar at UC Davis from 2011 to 2015. He received his Ph. D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from Donghua University
in 2015. His research focus on (1) impacts of soil amendments (e.g. manure and biochar) on soil C & N cycling, soil structure and soil microbial community and (2) maintaining crop production and ecosystem services with reduced inputs using integrated agricultural
management practices in agroecosystems.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">When: Mar., 22 Thursday, 12pm – 1pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Where: SE2-302</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Coffee and treats will be provided, please bring your own mugs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We look forward to seeing you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Nate & Jing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Organizers for Spring 2018: Nate Bogie and Jing Yan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jing Yan<br>
Postdoctoral Scholar, Soil Physics Lab, School of Natural Sciences,<br>
University of California, Merced</p>
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