We had a great semester: graduations, awards and recognition from national, regional, and University levels, internships with external agencies and more. So, we celebrated with students, colleagues, friends and families.
Yaxi Du decoded hidden mechanisms of soil carbon cycle processes using exciting metaphors and visuals! Yaxi is also a semi-finalist in Laney Graduate School’s 3-minute thesis competition. Here is a link to Yaxi’s spotlight video: https://www.
The Lester Committee approves Dana Kahn’s request for research-support (Total: $7,000 in 2023-24). She will join the Howland team crew again for the 2024 Field campaign. See here to learn more about the NSF project Dana is participating as a master’s student: https://www.
Yaxi received 1st prize for her talk at the 2024 Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium! Congratualtions, Yaxi! Murray gave another excellent talk, and Dana presented a great poster too! Well done, team! Very proud!
New paper in JGR Biogeosciences, led by former Sihi Lab postdoc, Zhuonan Wang. Open access Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BY4CD4E8UBWZBSYKBFR8?target=10.1029/2023JG007702 News release on this piece: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1039895 Also see here: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/04/esc_soil_carbon_models_01-04-2024/story.html
Congratulations to Dana Kah for your recognition with an Honorable Mention in the 2024 NSF GRFP competition. It is a significant achievement for a graduate student in the STEM field. We are proud of you, Dana!
Congratulations to Murray Sternberg for successfully defending his thesis with highest honors! You did an excellent job! Proud of you, Murray!
Congratulations Murray for winning 1st prize in poster competition at 2024 Southern ASA regional branch meeting. Jack is the partner in crime. See here for more information: https://www.agronomy.org/membership/branches/southern/
Congratulations Milon Barmon for winning 2nd prize in poster competition at 2023 ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meeting in St. Louis. Milon also received awards in video competition as the “Best in Show” and “Agronomy Best Video”.
Our synthesis project (A Tale of Two Extremes: Temperature Sensitivity of Carbon Loss from Cool and Hot Soils) on soil respiration is funded from DOE ESS program (Total: $400,000). Debjani Sihi and Tana Wood (USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry) are Principal Investigators.