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1:30-2:30 pm) for our Enviro-Lunch seminar series, where Dr. Noah Sokol, a
postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, will discuss
drought and microbial soil carbon dynamics. <span></span></span></p>

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carbon cycling<span></span></span></p>

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organic carbon is Earth’s largest terrestrial reservoir of carbon. The fate of
this massive carbon pool will exert significant effects on the rate and extent
of global climate change over the course of this century. Thus, a critical
priority is to understand how soil organic carbon is formed and lost, as well
as how global environmental change will influence these processes. Here, I
discuss how drought influences soil carbon cycling, since altered precipitation
regimes are predicted across the U.S. as a prominent consequence of climate
change. I describe a manipulative ¹³C tracer study that we conducted
in order to understand the effects of drought on: (1) plant carbon inputs to
the soil, (2) the structure and function of soil microbial communities, and (3)
the formation and persistence of soil organic carbon</span><span>. <span style="color:black">I discuss some
key initial results from this ¹³C tracer study, as well as the major
ongoing aims of this project.</span></span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span><span style="line-height:107%;color:black">Noah</span></span><span style="line-height:107%;color:black"> Sokol is a soil biogeochemist and
microbial ecologist. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence
Livermore National Lab. He received his PhD from Yale University (School of the
Environment) in 2018, working with Dr. Mark Bradford. His PhD dissertation on
soil carbon cycling in temperate forests was awarded the Soil Science Society
of America’s 2019 Truog Outstanding Dissertation Award. At Lawrence Livermore,
he is researching how soil microbial communities and soil organic carbon will
respond to climate change – especially the effects of drought on California
grassland soils.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">KJ, Manisha, and Anna (student and post-doc coordinator)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (faculty coordinator)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;word-break:break-all;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;color:black"></span><span style="line-height:107%"><span></span></span></p>





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