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Jennifer L. Soong

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Building 084, Room 0103D

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 415-652-4085

[email protected]

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Biography

Jennifer Soong is a soil ecologist, biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist. Her research focuses on pressing issues on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems under various natural and human-influenced environmental conditions. She is most interested in the interface between plant and soil processes with a focus on soil organic matter formation and decomposition. Dr. Soong conducts observational and empirical studies in field and laboratory setting across a broad range of ecosystem types. She utilizes a range of techniques including stable isotope probing, molecular techniques and modeling to quantify how organic and inorganic materials are transported and transformed as they move through plant-soil-microbial-atmospheric interfaces and the consequences of those processes on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services. She work closely with modelers to scale new mechanistic insights across ecosystem and global scales.

Dr. Soong is currently working on the TES-SFA whole soil warming project to increase process-level understanding of the controls of soil carbon turnover and stocks, and to improve predictions of soil carbon responses to climate change and land use change. Her other interests include teaching, mentoring and scientific outreach, with a keen interest in increasing the opportunities for involvement of women and underrepresented minorities in Earth and environmental sciences.

     

Education

  • Ph.D., Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2014, Dissertation: Moving beyond mass loss: advancing understanding about the fate of decomposing leaf litter and pyrogenic organic matter in the mineral soil
  • B.A. (Major- Biology; Major- Environmental Studies, Minor- Politics), Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2007

Experience

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences, 2017-Present
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp, 2015-2017
  • Instructor/Program Assistant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2014
  • Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2011-2014
  • Graduate Research Fellow, USDA National Needs, 2009-2011
  • Research Assistant, Colorado Wetlands Assessment Program, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Fort Collins, CO, 2008
  • Naturalist, YMCA of the East Bay at Camp Arroyo, Livermore, CA, 2007-2009
  • Restoration Ecology Intern, Presidio Trust, San Francisco, CA, 2007

Awards

  • 4th International Soil Organic Matter 2013, Nanjing, China, Best Poster Award, 2013
  • Front Range Student Ecology Symposium- Best Poster Award, 2013, 2010
  • Front Range Student Ecology Symposium- Best Oral Presentation Award, 2012
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship, Colorado State University , 2011

Scholarly Service

  • Journal reviewer, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Plant and Soil, PLOS ONE, iForest

Synergistic Activities

  • Convener at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2017
  • Mentor for undergraduate researchers
  • Mentor for graduate students
  • Workshop Organizer, Imbalance-P junior scientist, 2016-2017
  • Organizer, Graduate Degree Program, Ecology Graduate Student Forum, 2013-2014
  • Student Representative, Executive Committee of the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, 2012-2013
  • Student Representative, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, 2011-2012
  • Research proposal referee, government of Wales 2016, and the French National Research Agency 2017
  • Founding member of the Colorado State University chapter of Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS) 2009, member from 2009-2014, vice-president 2009-2010, president 2010-2011
  • Contributing author to EcoPRESS Science Blog
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