People

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