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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Next Monday (5/2), our last speaker Dr. Genevieve Noyce from
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center will present her research on
plant-microbe interactions in coastal wetlands. Please join us between 12-1 pm
(pacific) via zoom. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103</span></a><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span><span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> Coastal wetlands in a changing world<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Abstract</b>: <span>Coastal wetlands are hotspots of carbon
sequestration that regulate the biogeochemistry of coastal rivers, estuaries,
and continental shelves, yet these ecosystems are highly vulnerable to global
change. Wetland responses to global change can be complex because wetland
plants simultaneously regulate supplies of electron donors (organic carbon) and
electron acceptors (molecular oxygen), influencing microbial activity. The Salt
Marsh Accretion Response to Temperature eXperiment (SMARTX) was established at
the Smithsonian’s Global Change Research Wetland in 2016 to increase our
understanding of how the complex interactions between plants, microbes, and
hydrology will respond to global climate change. In SMARTX, we actively
manipulate whole-ecosystem temperature through feedback-controlled heating from
the plant canopy to 1.5 m soil depth as well as atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>
concentration. Over the past 6 years, we have found that warming and elevated
CO<sub>2</sub> generally increase aboveground net primary productivity (NPP)
but have more complex and non-linear effects on belowground NPP. These
non-linear belowground plant responses are driving key soil biogeochemical
processes such as redox potential, soil carbon sequestration, and methane (CH<sub>4</sub>)
emissions, affecting the radiative forcing potential of the ecosystem.<b><span></span></b></span></p>

<img src="cid:ii_l2f6mmri1" alt="Genevieve census_square.jpg" style="margin-right:0px" width="211" height="211"><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Bio: </b>Genevieve
Noyce is a research scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, where she has
been a part of the Biogeochemistry Lab since 2016. She has a BA in<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">environmental
science from Mount Holyoke College, a MS in earth science from the University of New
Hampshire, a MS in math from King’s College London, and a PhD in physical geography from
the University of Toronto. Genevieve has worked in both forests and wetlands, studying soil
microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, but her current research mainly focuses
on plant-microbe
interactions in coastal wetlands and how these dynamics shape ecosystem resiliency to
global change.<span><span></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:11.75pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>co-host:
KJ Min & Manisha Dolui<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Faculty
coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Spring 2022 Enviro-Lunch Schedule<span></span></span></p>

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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:white">speaker</span><span style="color:white"><span></span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:white">title</span><span style="color:white"><span></span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">1/31</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Mariela
  Garcia Arrendondo<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ Umass-Amherst</span><span></span></p>
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  <td style="width:296.75pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;background:rgb(217,226,243) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="396" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Root-mediated
  weathering</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">2/7</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <td style="width:135.65pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="181" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Michael Philben<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt">@
  Hope College</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Rethinking
  carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation during soil organic matter
  decomposition</span><span></span></p>
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  <td style="width:35.1pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219);border-style:none solid solid;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt;background:rgb(217,226,243) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="47" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">2/14</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Alyssa Griffin*<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ UC Davis</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The
  role of coastal marine sediments in carbon cycling from local to global
  scales</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:red">2/21</span><span style="color:red"><span></span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:red">Presidents’
  day</span><span style="color:red"><span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">2/28</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <td style="width:135.65pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;background:rgb(217,226,243) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="181" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Katherine Heckman<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ USDA</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Density
  fractionation and soil carbon stabilization</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">3/7</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Bhavna Arora<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt">@
  LBNL</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Reactive
  transport modeling</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">3/14</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Darian Smercina <br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ PNNL</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Free
  N fixing under switchgrass (Linking microbial scale processes to ecosystem
  function)</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:red">3/21</span><span style="color:red"><span></span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:red">spring
  break</span><span style="color:red"><span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:red"><span> </span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">3/28</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Meng Zhao<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ Stanford U</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Plant-water
  relationship (evapotranspiration) modeling</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">4/4</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Hannah Naughton<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt">@
  LBNL</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Root
  vs. topographic generation of redox anomalies on a subalpine hillslope and
  floodplain</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">4/11</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Michael
  Rowley<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ LBNL</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Ca-mediated
  soil organic carbon stabilization</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">4/18</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <td style="width:135.65pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="181" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Weiyu Li*<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt">@
  Stanford U</span><span></span></p>
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  <td style="width:296.75pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="396" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Data-driven
  hydraulic modeling</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">4/25</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <td style="width:135.65pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;background:rgb(217,226,243) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="181" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Daniel Zuleta</span><span><span></span></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">@ Smithsonian Institute</span><span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Tree
  mortality in tropical ecosystems</span><span></span></p>
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 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td style="width:35.1pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219);border-style:none solid solid;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="47" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">5/2</span><span></span></b></p>
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  <td style="width:135.65pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="181" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Genevieve Noyce<br>
  </span><span style="font-size:8pt">@
  Smithsonian Institute</span><span></span></p>
  </td>
  <td style="width:296.75pt;border-color:currentcolor rgb(142,170,219) rgb(142,170,219) currentcolor;border-style:none solid solid none;border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;padding:0in 5.4pt" width="396" valign="top">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Greenhouse
  gas emissions from wetland with climate change</span><span></span></p>
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