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Global N2O Budget Synthesis
Important new synthesis papers have come forth in 2019 and 2020 on the human impacts of the global nitrous oxide (N2O) budget.
Most of us know nitrous oxide as “laughing gas,” used for its anesthetic effects. But nitrous oxide (N…
Avoiding Pollution Swapping while Reducing Agricultural Runoff of Nitrogen to the Chesapeake Bay
Faculty, staff, and students from the Appalachian Laboratory, the Horn Point Laboratory, and Washington College and a local farmer were featured on a Maryland Public Television segment on Maryland Farm and Harvest, describing their on-farm research on …
Merging a mechanistic enzymatic model of soil heterotrophic respiration into an ecosystem model
Predictions of how the Earth will respond to climate change, including positive feedbacks caused by accelerated rates of decomposition of soil organic matter, are based in large part on projections of Earth system models (ESMs). However, one of the biggest …
Eric Davidson Named American Geophysical Union Fellow
Eric Davidson has been named a 2019 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences and outstanding achievements in advancing and communicating science. Only 0.1% of …
Lessons from President George H. W. Bush for the Present Political Environment
The recent passing of President George Herbert Walker Bush reminded me of the huge contrast between his tenure and that of our current president. During the week commemorating President Bush’s life, much was said about his compassion, respectfulness, and decency. …
Nitrogen Fixation Inputs in Pasture and Early Successional Forest in the Brazilian Amazon Region
I’ve always told students that data are not like wine – they don’t grow better with age. So it was with some embarrassment that I finally returned to a dataset that was more than a decade old to work on …
The Millennial Model
Rose Abramoff and a group of mostly Millennials (with a few of us old farts included as well) have published a paper describing a new model structure of soil carbon dynamics based on current process-level understanding. The CENTURY and RothC …
Eric Davidson Raising Money for UMCES Students on Climate Ride
On September 24, Eric Davidson will kick off the first leg of his three-day, 208-mile bike ride through the Blue Ridge Mountains toward the National Mall in Washington D.C. Davidson, director and professor at the Appalachian Laboratory, is embarking …
Red/Blue and Peer Review
AL Director and President of the American Geophysical Union, Eric Davidson, is joined by Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences, to recount the historical journey from scientific skepticism 40-50 years ago to today’s broad …
Projections of the soil-carbon deficit
Our new article describing how the amount of carbon stored in soil might be a crucial feedback to climate change in the December 2016 issue of Nature. Read it here.…