Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso. Research interests in biogeochemistry, ecophysiology, and global change. he/him
My collaborator @anthonydn is looking for a PhD student to work on CrustNet in 2025. This is an awesome opportunity for students interested in ecology, globally distributed experiments, and soils. Go to anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net/ for more information.
I'll be at ESA next week and am looking to connect with prospective Ph.D. students (you or someone you know!) We have funded opportunities between our Dryland Critical Zone project and the soon-to-launch CrustNet! See anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net for more details and get in touch!
Congrats to M.S. graduate Lindsey Dacey who finished a great thesis, and to Matthew Jones who finished his B.S. with honors! It has been awesome having both of these students in our lab for the last several years!
Our students and faculty had a chance to share their work today with the directors of national laboratories and the @doescience. Thank you all for visiting UTEP and exploring deeper partnerships with the @HSRUalliance!
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ALT President Wilson of UTEP and Dr. Berhe of the Department of Energy's Office of Science give the UTEP picks up sign.
I am truly honored and thrilled to be selected as an @EMSLscience Exploratory Research awardee! Looking forward to exciting collaborations with the EMSL team! Special thanks to my advisor @anthonydn for the support and guidance! @UTEP@DrylandCZ
👏 Introducing the fiscal year 2024 awardees of the @EMSLscience Exploratory Research proposal call!
Read about the 17 awarded projects, which are focused on aerosols, plastic pollution, methane production, and global climate change.
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ALT FY24 Exploratory Research Awardees
Jared Ellenbogen
Philipp Benz
Dominic Woolf
Marina Kalyuzhnaya
Marwa El-Sayed
Kalpana Kukreja
Allison Werner
Andrew Leakey
Omar Harvey
Erin Nuccio
Stefania Gilardoni
Avni Malhotra
Ryan Ziels
Itamar Shabtai
Edward O'Loughlin
Manishkumar Shrivastava
We are doing a search for a department chair (Biological Sciences @UTEP), and I am serving on the search committee. Please see the ad and send it to anyone who might be interested. Reach out if you have questions. utep.interviewexchange.com/j…@college
I enjoyed a one-nighter in the Gila Wilderness over the weekend. Even over Memorial Day with nice weather, once I got off the river trail I saw exactly no one. It was great! In the picture are some neat white rocks I was hiking toward.
Huge congratulations to Valeria Molina, Briana Salcido, and Viri Orona for receiving their MS degrees @UTEP@SciencesUtep. Their projects have improved our understandings of soil CO2 production and transport in natural and managed @DrylandCZ! @anthonydn
I was really pleased to get this paper out there on nutrient dynamics at our @DrylandCZ field site! It was based on data originally collected by REUs working with Jennie McLaren and myself. There are some neat shrub island effects and nitrate stuck out as behaving differently.
ALT Ratios among cover types with 95 percent CI averaged over all dates in the sampling period. As an example, gravimetric soil moisture was 65 percent [55, 76] as high in creosote as in interspace during the study period. The red vertical lines indicate a 1:1 ratio. Enzyme function is encoded by color (C-acquiring, brown; N-acquiring, blue; P-acquiring, violet; and oxidative, green). NAG, N-acetyl-glucosaminidase.
Sonic drilling at the Ag site, TX @DrylandCZ to understand the recharge during irrigation and mobility of salts, nutrients and metals. @LinMa15@anthonydn
Prepping for drilling 50-100 m cores over the next week to characterize our dryland critical zone pecan orchard and playa sites @DrylandCZ@LinMa15@UTEP
The McLaren lab @UTEP is searching for a PhD student who is interested in studying nutrient cycling & microbial communities in dryland ecosystems! This research is part of the Critical Zone Thematic Cluster grant @DrylandCZ Info: jenniemclaren.com/prospectiv…
Yes this class has been a lot of fun, especially this periodic table geek out! Here is one more picture Mark sent me from the Viz Lab today. @DrylandCZ@SciencesUtep@UTEP
It has been fun to bridge geo-bio and co-teach a soil class with @anthonydn this fall and more so if your favorite geochemistry colleagues like Mark Engle and @LinMa15 came and talked to students about the periodic table
Postdoc Alert! Are you interested in a postdoctoral fellowship exploring the capacity of natural ecosystems to capture and sequester carbon with the Malone Disturbance Ecology Lab @YaleEnvironment? Apply by November 30th: forms.gle/UkusZni26gWRE5KB7