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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Happening TODAY! We are happy to host Dr. Si Gao, a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University, for Enviro-Lunch to discuss biochar and its effects on soil nutrient dynamics. Please
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Title:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Locally produced wood biochar in the US Northwest: influence on soil nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics</span><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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