Past Group Members

Former University of Minnesota Group Members

Galen Bergquist

Galen Bergquist

Current Position: Laboratory Technician, USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Unit, St. Paul, MN

 

Hava Blair

Hava Blair

Graduate Student, Land and Atmospheric Sciences

How the indication of soil health is best performed and understood in cold climates such as Minnesota. 

Hava is now an Associate Researcher in Wisconsin with the Snap Plus program

 

Cameron Blake

Cameron Blake

Current Position: Communications and Project Assistant, Washington Conservation District, Greater Twin Cities Area

 

Jame Bowden

Graduate Student, Applied Plant Sciences

Greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen budgets in Kernza dual use grain-forage systems

 

Zak Buell

Zak Buell

Graduate Student, Land and Atmospheric Sciences

Microbial growth and carbon use under peatland warming at the SPRUCE experiment

 

Lauren Cline

Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Bayer US

 

Anna Crandall

Undergraduate Researcher: extracellular enzyme analysis in decomposing wood

 

Anne Crone

Undergraduate Researcher: greenhouse gas emissions in organic high tunnels

 

Michelle Dobbratz

Michelle Dobbratz

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UMN Agronomy and Plant Genetics

Kernza® Intermediate Wheatgrass physiology.

 

Mark Felice

Mark Felice

Postdoctoral Associate

Mark studied isotopic methods to understand microbial carbon and sulfur cycling at the SPRUCE boreal peatland climate change experiment. 

He is now Peatland Scientist at The Nature Conservancy

 

Miriam Geiske

Miriam Geiske

Current Position: Assistant Professor, UMN-Morris

 

Matthew Leung

 

Fucui Li

Fucui Li

PostDoc - Horticultural Science

 

Emma Link

Emma Link

Graduate Student, Land and Atmospheric Sciences

Soil Ecology and Climate Resiliency in Kernza Intermediate Wheatgrass and other sustainable cropping systems

 

Emily Locke

 

Carol Loopstra

Carol Loopstra

Manager, General lab and IRMS facility

 

Manbir Rakkar

Manbir Rakkar

Postdoctoral Associate

Soil health and greenhouse gas emissions in Kernza® Intermediate Wheatgrass cropping systems. 

 

Manbir is now an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.

 

Elizabeth Scobbie

Elizabeth Scobbie

 

Stella Woeltjen

Stella Pey

Graduate Student, Land and Atmospheric Sciences

Stella studied use of soil health indicators and stable isotope tracers to understand carbon flow, carbon storage, and soil improvement in Kernza® Intermediate Wheatgrass cropping systems.

She is now a Postdoc at the Danforth Center in Saint Louis, MO

 


 

Former Working Group in Germany 2009-2013

Stefanie Claus

Former MS student, Project Technician

Use of microbial inoculants to assist the recovery of former mining soils

 

Veronkia Deumlisch

Technician

 

Yvonne Eckstein

Jana and Yvonne

Technician

 

Julia Köhler

MS student in cooperation with Alexandra Erfmeier and Sabine Both at the Martin Luther University Halle-WIttenburg

Relationships between above-ground and belowground diversity

 

Zhiqin Pei

Zhiqin Pei

Ph.D. candidate in cooperation with François Buscot of the UFZ department of soil ecology

Microbial community structure and activity in relation to forest biodiversity and litter biodiversity in subtropical China

 

Jana Schmidt

Ph.D. candidate in cooperation with Elke Schulz of the UFZ department of soil ecology and Beate Michalzik of Friedrich Schiller University-Jena.

Microbial biomarkers for the determination of labile versus recalcitrant carbon pool cycling after long-term agricultural management.

 

Ricardo Schöps

M.S. student in cooperation with Alexandra Erfmeier at the Martin Luther University Halle-WIttenburg and Christian Wirth and Katerina Pietsch at the Leipzig University

Microbial activity in coarse woody debris placed across a forest biodiversity gradient