Welcome to the Grandy Lab!
Our research examines how soil organisms interact with their environment to regulate ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, organic matter turnover, trace gas emissions, and productivity. This research encompasses multiple spatial scales and lies at the interface of soil ecology, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem science. While we use a range of fundamental laboratory methods, which include molecular chemical and microbiological approaches, we always have an eye towards applying our results to improve ecosystem processes and management.
Research Topic Areas
Soil Ecosystem Resilience
Soil Organic Matter/Nitrogen Dynamics
Agroecosystem Diversity
Soil Biogeochemical Modeling
Stuart gives the keynote address at the Soil Health Institute.
News
- Stuart gives the keynote address at the Soil Health Institute. See his talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4C1vte4eA
- Congratulations to Bethany Balstad who presented on her undergraduate research project on 15N amino acid pool dilution.
- Congratulations and welcome new interns Diane DeVries and Taylor Hennas.
- Congratulations to Andrea Jilling and Stuart Grandy on their article published in Biogeochemistry. Read the article here (PDF): [Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes]
- Congratulations to lab member Karen Moran for getting accepted into the Carsey School’s Master in Public Policy program here at the University of New Hampshire.
- Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Andrea Jilling for receiving the Dissertation Year Fellowship Award. The award is given by the Graduate School and recognizes and supports UNH Ph.D. students in their final year.
- Welcome Bennett Thompson, who joined the Grandy Lab this past Fall semester.
- Congratulations to former PhD student Cynthia Kallenbach who accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry at McGill University. Cynthia will start in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences in Fall 2018. We look forward to international collaboration in the near future!
- Emily Austin publishes an article in GCB-Bioenergy on cover crop contributions to soil carbon. Read the article here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12428/full
- Congratulations to Amanda Daly, who was named a finalist for the Presidential Management Fellowship (article in UNH Today: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/01/soil-savior)
- Andrea Jilling presented her research on the bioavailability of mineral-associated nitrogen at the annual conferences for the Soil Science Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.
- Congratulations to former post-doctoral research fellow Jörg Schnecker for earning a FWF grant to study "Seasonal dynamics of microbial carbon sequestration." Stuart Grandy and Emily Kyker-Snowman helped author the grant.
- PhD student Lauren Breza presented on the drivers of nitrogen distribution and retention across multiple SOM pools at ESA this summer.
- Nell Campbell chaired her first session at AGU, on multiscale measurements and modeling of GHG emissions from livestock, grasslands, and croplands
- Congratulations to former undergraduate researcher Katie Slebodnik, who was awarded the Outstanding Student award for Environmental Sciences this year. Katie will be moving on to a MS program in Jennifer Reeve’s Lab at Utah State.
- PhD student Emily Kyker-Snowman presents her research on the MIMICS model and temperature sensitivity in microbial parameters at AGU in New Orleans this December.
- Congratulations to former post-doctoral research fellow Tim Bowles accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture at University of California, Berkeley. Tim begins his position July 2017 and will continue collaborating with the Grandy Lab on how cropping system diversification impacts soil organic matter, soil ecosystem services, and yield resilience.
- Members of the Grandy Lab are on Twitter! Follow Stuart Grandy @sgrandysoil, Amanda Daly @daly_ab, Andrea Jilling @AndreaJilling, and Emily Kyker-Snowman @EKykerSnowman