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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This week we invite Dr. Si Gao, a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon
State University. She studies biochar and its effects on soil nutrient
dynamics. Please join us this Thursday (2/11/2021, 1:30-2:30 pm) for her talk. <span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Title: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Locally produced wood biochar in the US Northwest: influence on
soil nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Producing wood biochar from timber harvest residues and applying
it to nearby soils represents a means of addressing fuel management in the
western US while providing an innovative approach to potentially improve soil
fertility and plant productivity. Using a series of lab and field
experiments established in Washington and Montana, my research is to understand
the influence of locally produced wood biochar on soil nitrogen (N) and
phosphorus (P) dynamics at agricultural, rangeland, and forest ecosystems of
the Northwestern US. Several research topics that will be covered in my
talk include:<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1) Responses of soil N
and P pools and fluxes, microbial communities, and crop productivity to
short-term wood biochar addition at small-scale organic farms of the Pacific
Northwest<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2) Use of wood biochar
with or without manure on soils of a semi-arid semi-natural rangeland ecosystem
in western Montana<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3) Rotational cattle
grazing and wood biochar interact to influence rangeland soil and grass
nutrient dynamics<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4) Influence of biochar
addition on forest soils exposed to fire retardant chemicals at the US Inland
Northwest<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bio:</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><br></p><img src="cid:ii_kkwowbpl1" alt="Gao photo.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="164" height="164"><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;word-break:normal;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Gao is a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She
received a PhD in Forest & Conservation Sciences from the University of
Montana. She is a soil scientist and ecosystem ecologist, broadly interested in
understanding the functions of pyrogenic carbon in soil carbon and nutrient cycling
in natural and managed ecosystems. <span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;word-break:break-all;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></font></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Organizers for Spring 2021: KJ Min, Manisha Dolui, Anna Jurusik</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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