Environmental systems Professor Rebecca Ryals has been working on land-based carbon sequestration studies in the San Joaquin Valley with growers who have been using biosolids — the residue left after wastewater treatment — on their fields for many years. ucm.edu/krJpFM

ESA is honored to announce the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award 2022 cohort 🎉 🎉 Recipients will be meeting virtually with members of Congress to discuss federal investments in the biological & ecological sciences. More info: esa.org/blog/2022/02/0…

So excited for Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (she/her)👩🏽‍🔬🌍 to receive this much deserved position and honor! I am incredibly lucky to be a part of her research team UC Merced

Had a great time at #SOM2022 in Seoul learning about soil organic matter and presenting my project on amendments and urban soil carbon!

Excited to announce that I passed my qualifying exam to become a PhD Candidate (yesterday on World Soil Day!)! Many thanks to all my friends and my committee members who have supported me so far - PhD here I come!

Very glad I had the opportunity to talk about compost use in urban areas and be honored with a travel award! Was great to hear other grad students work as well.

Very excited to have begun our compost field experiment in Dublin! We'll be looking at life cycle impacts of compost in urban parks to meet city compost use requirements and improve our parks.

Very excited to be working with AGU Science Policy in the #VoicesforScience program. A few weeks ago myself and my regional team met with staffers from Rep. John Duarte (CA-13)'s office on the importance of science funding for ag in the valley and for NSF Research Traineeships and GRFPs.

A beautiful day for gas flux measurements in Dublin with Zachary Malone !

Microbial dormancy is complicated, frameworks can help. Very glad to be a part of this paper and learn so much from lead authors (JL Weissman and Mark McDonald) and all (Carlos Owusu-Ansah, J. Ellenbogen,@mpricketts, S. Frolking, @JessErnakovich,Michael Ibba,Sarah Bagby, EMERGE)

Excited to give my first conference talk and another poster (#1496) session! Talk and poster focused on urban compost impacts on soil emissions - see you there! #ACSMTG

My first SSSA meeting was great! I was able to talk at a conference for the first time in a rapid session, won second place for the urban soil poster session, and hear about all the amazing progress occurring in soil science. I look forward to being back! #ACSMTG

This week at AGU I'll be presenting two posters, tomorrow (10:30am-12:30pm) on science policy/SB1383/urban compost use and Wednesday (8:30am-12:30pm) on my field experiment of urban compost use in Dublin, CA. Excited for my first AGU! #AGU2023

How does long-term compost application influence soil C persistence? My poster Thursday (13:40-17:30 EST) during #AGU24 (B43F-1607) will present the results of 30 years of compost application on soil carbon, density fractionation, and more! Poster link: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meet…

Interested in the impacts of long-term compost addition on soil carbon persistence? Come to my poster this afternoon (B43D-1607)!