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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Please join us this Monday 22nd November for our</span><span style="margin:0px; background-color:white"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="marksstu0cyec" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enviro-lunch</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="markzjb8crnl5" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">seminar</span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white;">-series
guest speaker Dr. Michael Kaiser </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color:white"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white;">from
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">In his talk, Dr. Kaiser will share the results of three case studies representing different aspects of his research activities. The first case study will provide
insights in soil organic matter stabilization and decomposition across five different soils and their pedogenetic horizons for sites under mature beech forest. The second case study deals with carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the topsoil after five years of
cover cropping in a no-till system. The third case study explores potential mechanisms for nitrate retention at biochar surfaces that aged in situ in the soil within a greenhouse experiment.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Dr. Kaiser is working since 2018 as an Assistant Professor for Applied Soil Chemistry at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Before that, he worked for the Centre
of Agricultural Landscape Research and the University in Kassel in Germany and for UC Merced in the Biogeochemistry Group of Dr. Berhe. His research focuses in general on the biogeochemistry of organic matter in soils. In his research activities, Dr. Kaiser
aims to clarify the effects of sustainable soil management practices such as the application of organic fertilizers and biochar, cover cropping, liming, and decreasing tillage intensity on the soil productivity relevant amount, chemical composition, and stabilization
of organic matter. Further central aspects of his research are to analyze the effects of land use as well as of soil type, soil depth, and soil mineral characteristics on organic matter turnover and storage. Dr. Kaiser also holds expertise in the development
and improvement of chemical and physical methods required to separate soil ecological meaningful organic matter fractions, which is critical for the mechanistic understanding of organic matter decomposition and stabilization processes.
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Toshi, KJ, Manisha, Jennifer (Student and Post-doc coordinators), and </span></p>
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