Advisory Board and Editors Biogeochemistry
Simon Man Kit Cheung
Dr. Cheung is a Senior Research Associate of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is a microbial ecologist specialized in using molecular and bioinformatics techniques to examine the dynamics, determinants and roles of microbial communities in natural and host-associated environments.
Ben Colman
Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology at the University of Montana.
I am broadly interested in how nutrients and energy are cycled in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. I combine elements of ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, and biogeochemistry in my research.
Perran L. M. Cook
Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry, Monash University. Previously at CSIRO Land and Water in Brisbane, and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany.
The main focus of my research is nutrient cycling in coastal environments.
Joseph M Craine
Craine received his BS from The Ohio State University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and a book with Princeton University Press, The Resource Strategies of Wild Plants. He has worked on a variety of topics from plant traits to soil organic matter dynamics to bison performance to nutrient limitation of plant growth. Since 2014 he has helped lead a private company Jonah Ventures.
Jorge Curiel Yuste
Dr. Jorge Curiel Yuste, leads the group of "Terrestrial Ecology" within the BC3. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Antwerp (UA, Belgium) in 2004. Since then, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Biometeorology (Biometlab) lab at the University of California, Berkeley (Prof. Dennis D Baldocchi, 2004-2007) a Marie Curie fellow (Intra-European Fellowship (IEF)) in the Global Ecology Unit at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) of Barcelona (2007-2009), a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB; Contractes doctoral D'Intensificatió I3, 2009-2011) and a "Ramón y Cajal" research fellow at the Museum of Natural History (MNCN, CSIC). Since 2017 he holds an Ikerbasque Research Professorship at the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3). At the moment he is also responsible for the group of "Plant and soil Interactions" (PlanSoil within the Asociaciión Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET)
Saurav Das
Dr. Saurav Das is a soil scientist with expertise in soil health, soil carbon, microbial ecology, and sustainable agriculture. He serves as the Research Director of the Farming Systems Trial at Rodale Institute, where his work focuses on understanding the intersection of soil management, plant health, and ecosystem services in organic and regenerative farming systems. Dr. Das has published extensively on topics such as biogeochemistry of carbon and nitrogen, soil health, soil carbon, microbial community dynamics, and the integration of data-driven approaches in agricultural research. He is committed to advancing sustainable practices that balance productivity and environmental health.
Carlos Eduardo de Rezende
Dr. Carlos Eduardo de Rezende is a Full Professor in the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of the Biosciences and Biotechnology Center at the North Fluminense State University (UENF). Prof. Rezende is a senior researcher from the Brazilian National Council for Science and Technology (CNPq) (Level 1B), Scientist of Rio de Janeiro state from Foundation for Science Development (FAPERJ) and coordinator of the Future Earth Coasts in South America. Dr. Rezende has a professional experience including studies on the dynamics in continental aquatic environments (e.g.: rivers, lakes), terrestrial and coastal ecosystems (e.g., estuaries, mangroves and lagoons) and ocean. At UENF, Prof. Rezende held various institutional leadership roles (e.g., Vice-Rector, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Center Director and Head of Environmental Sciences Laboratory), and he has participated in several boards and councils. Actually, Prof. Rezende is conducting studies on Hg and inorganic (e.g.: Al, Fe, Mn, carbonate) and organic geochemical supports (e.g. elemental and isotopic composition) as well as their ecosystem interactions; use of molecular markers (e.g., lignin phenols, carbon black) as geochemical tools to enhance the understanding on the alterations of biogeochemical cycles in the transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Jan Dolfing
PhD in Environmental Microbiology from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Post-doctoral experience at Michigan State University (with Jim Tiedje) and EAWAG/ETH in Switzerland (With Rene Schwarzenbach and Joseph Zeyer).
My main interest is in the applicability and application of thermodynamic logic to microbial processes and interactions in methanogenic ecosystems. Ongoing projects include: Reductive dechlorination of chlordecone, a legacy compound used for pest control in the French West Indies.
Alexis Dufresne
CNRS researcher in the ECOBIO lab (Ecology - Biodiversity - Evolution) at the university of Rennes 1.
My research interests center on the roles of microorganisms in ecosystem functioning of ecosystems and how microorganisms perceive and adapt to environmental changes. My current work focuses on microorganisms in groundwater and the relationship between hydrological and hydrochemical processes and the diversity and activity of microbial communities.
Peter Dunfield
Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Calgary. Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty. Formerly Senior Scientist, Extremophile Research Group, Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand, and Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Ross Edwards
Associate Professor Ross Edwards is a researcher with Curtin University Physics and Astronomy investigating the present and glacial time-scale deposition history of smoke and other aerosols from the global atmosphere. These particles alter the properties of the atmosphere influencing climate, atmospheric chemistry, and the productivity of the biosphere. His expertise ranges from the ultra-trace chemical and isotopic analysis of polar ice and snow, and terrestrial and marine waters to conducting field campaigns in the Earth’s most extreme environments. As an inventor, he has pioneered new analytical methods and created equipment that has allowed the continuous analysis of ice cores at the parts per quadrillion level and the ultra-trace analysis of black carbon in water.
Alf Ekblad
I have a PhD in plant physiology at Umeå University, Sweden, a docent in soil ecology at SLU and I am currently a professor in biology for ecosystem ecology at Örebro University Sweden.