{"id":1647,"date":"2013-08-08T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2013-08-08T18:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:23:17","slug":"drylands-biogeochemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Drylands biogeochemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0104.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0104.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"450\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just begun a new postdoctoral position at <a href=\"http:\/\/sbsc.wr.usgs.gov\/crs\/\">USGS<\/a> in Moab, Utah. Now that I&#8217;ve drawn my Arctic project mostly to a close (a few papers still to finish up), I am really excited to shift from the tundra to the desert. Though the ecosystem is different, the nature of the project is the same as my previous work in which I have applied biogeochemical and ecophysiological methods to understand how global change is affecting ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Moab, I will be working with world renowned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soilcrust.org\/crust101.htm\">soil crust<\/a> expert Dr. Jayne Belnap as well as my grad school friend and fellow biogeochemist Dr. Sasha Reed. We&#8217;ll be leveraging an awesome field experiment that Jayne has been running near Castle Valley, Utah for the last seven years. It&#8217;s a DOE-supported project in which they have applied warming (via infrared lamps, see above) and watering treatments to crust-dominated desert soils. It also features an automated CO2 chamber system (lower left on picture) that is producing some sweet data. They have seen some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v2\/n10\/full\/nclimate1596.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201210\">interesting results<\/a> so far and I am excited to jump in and contribute to and build upon this project.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to be back in the American West and to live in a place that my family used to go on vacation. I first rolled through Moab when I was about 10 in 1991. It&#8217;s grown since then but appears so far to be just as much fun! We&#8217;ve already been to Arches about 5 times and met lots of nice people. Should be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just begun a new postdoctoral position at USGS in Moab, Utah. Now that I&#8217;ve drawn my Arctic project mostly to a close (a few papers still to finish up), I am really excited to shift from the tundra to the desert. Though the ecosystem is different, the nature of the project is the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}