
Eric Slessarev | Principal Investigator
Research interests: Understanding how soil formation and geochemical dynamics affect the global carbon cycle; soil based carbon dioxide removal
Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

Mariela Garcia Arredondo | YCNCC Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Rhizosphere soil carbon cycling; stable isotopes; Ca-organic matter interactions in grassland soil carbon cycling; sustainable land development

Leila Wahab | Postdoctoral Associate
Research interests: Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and precipitation disturbance; The role of the mineral matrix in stabilizing soil carbon and nitrogen

Junge Hyun | Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: How primary mineral weathering processes influence soil organic carbon stocks by modulating ecosystem productivity and ecosystem respiration at continental scales; Key environmental factors that explain the spatiotemporal variability of soil CO2 flux in regional, continental, and global scales; Impact of enhanced rock weathering on soil organic carbon dynamics and microbial activity in a grassland ecosystem
Graduate Students

Henry Betts | PhD Student
Research interests: biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, ecosystem ecology