Advisory Board and Editors Biogeochemistry

Jan Kaiser

Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. IUPAC Task Group Chair "Terminology and definition of quantities related to the isotope distribution in elements with more than two stable isotopes". IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols. SCOR Working Group 'Dissolved nitrous oxide and methane measurements'. Editor Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Research interests:
* to understand and quantify chemistry and oxidation capacity of the atmosphere
* to quantify relative time scales of transport and biogeochemical conversion processes in atmosphere and oceans
* to understand and quantify variability in marine biological production and CO2 uptake down to small spatial scales
* to gauge the impact of human activities on greenhouse gas emissions in terrestrial and coastal environments

Xiaoming Kang

Gary M King

Professor of microbial biology with extensive experience in numerous aspects of microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and ecophysiology. Elected fellow American Academy of Microbiology

Research interests include:

*Benthic marine biogeochemistry and animal-microbe interactions
* Biology, phylogeny and ecology of marine acorn worms (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta)
* Role of microorganisms in the dynamics of atmospheric trace gases (methane, carbon monoxide)
* Plant-microbe interactions, carbon cycling, trace gases in marine & freshwater ecosystems
* Microbial ecology of soils and community dynamics in volcanic soils
* Structure and function of lithotrophic bacterial communities
* Microbiology, physiology and ecology of aerobic CO-oxidizing bacteria

Tomohiro Kuwae

Head of the Coastal and Estuarine Environment Research Group, Port and Airport Research Institute. My research interests include biogeochemical cycling in shallow coastal waters, nutrient and oxygen fluxes across the sediment-water interface, nutrient and oxygen dynamics in sediments, analysis of foodwebs using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios, CO2 sequestration and carbon storage by shallow coastal ecosystems, feeding ecology and foraging behaviour of shorebirds, conservation, restoration, and creation of intertidal flat ecosystems, development stage of created intertidal flat ecosystems, dynamics of benthic microbes, macroinvertebrates, and shorebirds in created intertidal flat ecosystems, and response of created intertidal flat ecosystems to varying environmental conditions

Michael G LaMontagne

Ph.D. Biology, Boston University. NATO Advanced Study Institute: Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Microbes. NASA Planetary Biology Intern at the Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Marine Biological Laboratory, Summer Course in Microbial Diversity, Woods Hole, MA

Research Projects include: Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Metagenomics; Microbial Discovery; Biogeochemistry.

Xavier Le Roux

Senior scientist (DRex) INRAE ; Microbial and ecosystem ecologist . Deputy Director of the Microbial ecology centre of Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) www.ecologiemicrobiennelyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique31

Director of the Research Federation BioEEnViS http://bioenvis.universite-lyon.fr/

Research topics include : response of microbial communities involved in N dynamics (nitrification, denitrification...) to global change factors and disturbances ; and microbial biodiversity-ecosystem functioning/services relationships.

* over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals; h=54 (WoS) or 64 (GoogleScholar)
* Member of the Academy of Europe www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Le_Roux_Xavier
* See my profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/X_Roux/info
* Former Chair & Coordinator of the European network BiodivERsA www.eurobiodiversa.org

Xiaomin Li

Professor of Environmental Science at SCNU Environmental Research Institute (SERI) in South China Normal University (SCNU).
She was the awardee of Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA, 2015) from Australian Research Council, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017), and Guangdong Special Support Plan for High-Level Young Talents of Science and Technology Innovation (2017).
Her research areas include biogeochemistry, environmental microbiology, and soil pollution control. She has been committed to the transformation mechanisms of organochlorines and arsenic in soils driven by microorganisms, and their coupling processes with transformation of carbon, iron, and nitrogen.

Anja Linstädter

Anja Linstädter is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cologne and head of the Range Ecology and Management Group. Her research focuses on global change impacts on managed terrestrial ecosystems. She is particularly interested in the interactive effects of global change agents - such as grazing and drought - on the functioning of African drylands, and in consequences for ecosystem service delivery. Ultimately, her research aims at designing ecosystem-based management strategies.

Barbara J MacGregor

Research Asst. Professor, Marine Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2003-2017); Postdoctoral fellow, MPI – Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany (2000-2003); Research assistant and postdoctoral associate, Civil Engineering Dept., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (1994-1999); PhD, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1994); BS (1984) and MS (1986), Biology and Marine Microbiology, University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Research projects include: new methods to directly link species identity with carbon source utilization; direct profiling of microbial communities without PCR; direct detection of microbial enzymes in environmental samples.

Thulani P Makhalanyane

Thulani Makhalanyane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and undertakes research at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics. His research has focused almost entirely on understanding the ecology of microbial communities in extreme environments.

Ralph Mead

I am an organic geochemist studying the fate and transport of anthropogenically and natural derived organic compounds in the Anthropocene.

Christof D Meile

Professor In the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, with expertise in reactive transport modeling, early diagenesis, land-ocean interactions and redox dynamics; PhD Utrecht University, The Netherlands; MS Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; BS Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Switzerland