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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Below please find the lineup of speakers for our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="searchhighlight"><span style="color:#070706;background:#FFEE94">Enviro-lunch</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">seminar
for fall 2022. Please also help us share the schedule with ESS and Bio/EEB undergrads and grad students in ES, QSB and MIST.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Time: Mondays Noon to 1PM.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Until we can restart in-person meetings,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="searchhighlight"><span style="color:#070706;background:#FFEE94">Enviro-Lunch</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">will
remain on zoom<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103" title="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">We hope to have you all join us.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">co-hosts: KJ Min, Manisha Dolui, Toshiyuki Bandai, Jennifer Alvarez</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Mariela Garcia Arrendondo</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Rethinking carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation during soil organic matter decomposition</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">The role of coastal marine sediments in carbon cycling from local to global scales</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black"> Density fractionation and soil carbon stabilization</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Bhavna Arora<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black"> Reactive transport modeling</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif">Darian Smercina<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black"> Free N fixing under switchgrass (Linking microbial scale processes to ecosystem function)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">3/21/22<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">4/11/22 <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Next",sans-serif;color:black">Ca-mediated soil organic carbon stabilization</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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