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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Our research aims at quantifying the interaction between the hydrologic cycle and the physical and biochemical processes in the soil and throughout the Critical Zone, with an emphasis on the role of hydro-climatic fluctuations. By improving our understanding of the complex dynamics of the water and nutrient cycles, we seek to develop quantitative tools that help us preserve soil ecosystem services, such as soil and plant carbon storage, and prevent our ecosystems from degrading.

To tackle such fundamental questions on these rather complex biotic/abiotic interactions and shed light on their dominant dynamics, we borrow tools from fluid mechanics, dynamical system theory, stochastic processes and thermodynamics to use in conjunction with experimental observations.

Specific research projects include modeling soil moisture dynamics and its control on biogeochemical cycle across climatic gradients, identification of long terms hydro-climatic drivers of chemical weathering, estimation of long term hydrologic and energy partitioning, quantification of soil formation processes, and modeling the effect of water management strategies.

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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4101 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation

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University of Palermo - (Palermo, Italy)

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University of Palermo - (Palermo, Italy)

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Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)

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Quantifying the hydrological impact of soil mulching across rainfall regimes and mulching layer thickness

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The role of hydrology on enhanced weathering for carbon sequestration II. From hydroclimatic scenarios to carbon-sequestration efficiencies

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Emergent Climatic Controls on Soil Carbon Turnover and Its Variability in Warm Climates

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Wind erosion-induced soil sediment and organic carbon loss under various land management practices in western U.S. Rangeland

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Comment on "Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes'' by Rinaldo et al

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Carbon sequestration uncertainties: bridging the model-data gap for enhanced weathering

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Critical inundation level for methane emissions from wetlands

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The role of hydrological processes on enhanced weathering for carbon sequestration in soils in tropical areas

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Energy Constraints for Climate Models from Hydrologic Partitioning

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Nano- to Global-Scale Uncertainties in Terrestrial Enhanced Weathering.

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Impact of ecohydrological fluctuations on iron-redox cycling

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Dynamic dependence of nonequilibrium work limits the validity of the  Jarzynski Equality

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The Formation of Clay-Enriched Horizons by Lessivage

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Quantifying the influence of landscape ecology on wind erosion in the western United States using the APEX-LWE model

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Modelling the impacts of enhanced rock weathering on soil-plant-carbon cycle: develop and benchmark on mesocosm and field experiments

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Linking age, survival, and transit time distributions

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The effects of seasonal variability of precipitation and vegetation cycle on enhanced weathering for carbon sequestration

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Interacting Bioenergetic and Stoichiometric Controls on Microbial Growth.

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Linking parametric and water-balance models of the Budyko and Turc spaces

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Age distribution dynamics with stochastic jumps in mortality.

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Thermodynamics of fluctuations in small systems interacting with the   environment

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Thermodynamics of fluctuations in small systems interacting with the  environment

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Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate

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Dynamic dependence of nonequilibrium work limits the validity of the   Jarzynski Equality

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On the probabilistic structure of water age

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Effects of precipitation seasonality, irrigation, vegetation cycle and soil type on enhanced weathering - modeling of cropland case studies across four sites

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Hydrologic Transport of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Its Control on Chemical Weathering

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Theoretical Constraints on Fe Reduction Rates in Upland Soils as a Function of Hydroclimatic Conditions

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Variability of ecosystem carbon source from microbial respiration is controlled by rainfall dynamics.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Hydrological Spaces of Long-Term Catchment Water Balance

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Balancing Productivity and Climate Impact: Climate-Smart Potential of Irrigation Practices

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Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate

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Thermodynamic relations among isotropic material properties in  conditions of plane shear stress

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Linking Soil Structure, Hydraulic Properties, and Organic Carbon Dynamics: A Holistic Framework to Study the Impact of Climate Change and Land Management

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Origin of negative temperatures in systems interacting with external fields

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Role of drainage timing on mitigating methane emissions from rice paddy fields

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Classifying the potential for soil organic carbon gain under regenerative agriculture

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Linking age, survival and transit time distributions

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Effects of precipitation seasonality, vegetation cycle, and irrigation on enhanced weathering

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Dynamic coupling between soil properties and water content in shrink-swell soils: Effects on surface hydrologic partitioning

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Optimal drainage timing for mitigating methane emissions from rice paddy fields

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Multiple outflows, spatial components, and nonlinearities in age theory

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Linking Soil Structure, Hydraulic Properties, and Organic Carbon Dynamics: A Holistic Framework to Study the Impact of Climate Change and Land Management

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The effects of enhanced weathering and hydrology on carbon sequestration in soils

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The role of hydrology on enhanced weathering for carbon sequestration I. Modeling rock-dissolution reactions coupled to plant, soil moisture, and carbon dynamics

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Wetness controls on global chemical weathering

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Origin of Negative Temperatures in Systems Interacting with External  Fields

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Optimal hydrologic regime for regenerating FeIII electron acceptors for iron reduction in upland soils

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Thermodynamic Relations among Isotropic Material Properties in Conditions of Plane Shear Stress.

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The Energy Side of Budyko: Surface-Energy Partitioning From Hydrological Observations

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences