Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

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#1765

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Soil Science

#73

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#81

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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's Degrees

PhD Soil Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Soil Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Soil and Water Conservation University of Asmara

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According to Wikipedia, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a soil biogeochemist and political ecologist who is the current Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy. She was previously the Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences; University of California, Merced. Her research group worked to understand how soil helps regulate the earth's climate.

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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's Published Works

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Soil and human security in the 21st century (2015) (785)
A new method for rapid determination of carbohydrate and total carbon concentrations using UV spectrophotometry. (2013) (483)
The Significance of the Erosion-induced Terrestrial Carbon Sink (2006) (353)
Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview (2006) (344)
Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content (2018) (336)
Erosion, deposition and soil carbon: A review of process-level controls, experimental tools and models to address C cycling in dynamic landscapes (2016) (304)
Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes (2020) (298)
Impacts of organic matter amendments on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in grassland soils (2014) (160)
Effectiveness of biochar for sorption of ammonium and phosphate from dairy effluent. (2013) (148)
Role of Soil Erosion in Biogeochemical Cycling of Essential Elements: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus (2018) (143)
Persistence of soil organic matter in eroding versus depositional landform positions (2012) (141)
Linking soil organic matter dynamics and erosion‐induced terrestrial carbon sequestration at different landform positions (2008) (137)
Impact of fire on active layer and permafrost microbial communities and metagenomes in an upland Alaskan boreal forest (2014) (133)
Erosion, deposition, and the persistence of soil organic matter: mechanistic considerations and problems with terminology (2013) (130)
Molecular investigations into a globally important carbon pool: permafrost‐protected carbon in Alaskan soils (2010) (130)
How air-drying and rewetting modify soil organic matter characteristics: An assessment to improve data interpretation and inference (2015) (121)
Effects of soiling and cleaning on the reflectance and solar heat gain of a light-colored roofing membrane (2005) (117)
Impact of biochar enriched with dairy manure effluent on carbon and nitrogen dynamics. (2012) (110)
Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development (2019) (105)
Erosion, deposition and replacement of soil organic carbon in Mediterranean catchments: a geomorphological, isotopic and land use change approach (2011) (105)
Influence of topography on soil organic carbon dynamics in a Southern California grassland (2017) (102)
Links among warming, carbon and microbial dynamics mediated by soil mineral weathering (2018) (96)
Drivers of change in ecosystem condition and services (2005) (83)
Subsurface plant‐accessible water in mountain ecosystems with a Mediterranean climate (2018) (79)
How does sonication affect the mineral and organic constituents of soil aggregates?—A review (2014) (73)
Tracing the source of soil organic matter eroded from temperate forest catchments using carbon and nitrogen isotopes (2016) (71)
Decomposition of organic substrates at eroding vs. depositional landform positions (2011) (71)
Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences (2020) (70)
Characterizing dissolved organic matter in eroded sediments from a loess hilly catchment using fluorescence EEM-PARAFAC and UV–Visible absorption: Insights from source identification and carbon cycling (2019) (69)
Improving understanding of soil organic matter dynamics by triangulating theories, measurements, and models (2018) (69)
Biochar can be used to capture essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improve soil physico-chemical properties (2014) (69)
Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab (2020) (61)
Soil Erosion: Data Say C Sink (2008) (56)
Contingency in the direction and mechanics of soil organic matter responses to increased rainfall (2012) (53)
Order from disorder: do soil organic matter composition and turnover co-vary with iron phase crystallinity? (2018) (51)
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course (2021) (46)
Pyrogenic Carbon Erosion: Implications for Stock and Persistence of Pyrogenic Carbon in Soil (2018) (46)
Soil carbon and nitrogen erosion in forested catchments: implications for erosion-induced terrestrial carbon sequestration (2015) (42)
Thermal alteration of soil organic matter properties: a systematic study to infer response of Sierra Nevada climosequence soils to forest fires (2016) (41)
Quantifying uncertainties in sequential chemical extraction of soil phosphorus using XANES spectroscopy. (2020) (39)
On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration (2019) (38)
Decreases in soil moisture and organic matter quality suppress microbial decomposition following a boreal forest fire (2015) (37)
Aging and weathering of cool roofing membranes (2005) (36)
Distinct bioenergetic signatures in particulate versus mineral-associated soil organic matter (2018) (35)
Application of ultrasound to disperse soil aggregates of high mechanical stability (2012) (34)
The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes (2020) (33)
Thermal alteration of water extractable organic matter in climosequence soils from the Sierra Nevada, California (2016) (31)
Magnetic properties of ultra-small goethite nanoparticles (2014) (29)
Biogeochemistry: The soil carbon erosion paradox (2017) (28)
Erosional redistribution of topsoil controls soil nitrogen dynamics (2016) (28)
Transport-distance specific SOC distribution: Does it skew erosion induced C fluxes? (2016) (28)
Chemical characterization and source identification of organic matter in eroded sediments: Role of land use and erosion intensity (2019) (27)
Early Spring, Severe Frost Events, and Drought Induce Rapid Carbon Loss in High Elevation Meadows (2014) (26)
Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils (2022) (25)
Post-wildfire Erosion in Mountainous Terrain Leads to Rapid and Major Redistribution of Soil Organic Carbon (2017) (25)
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence (2021) (24)
Thermal alteration of soil physico-chemical properties : a systematic study to infer response of Sierra Nevada climosequence soils to forest fires (2016) (24)
Influence of Calcium Carbonate and Charcoal Applications on Organic Matter Storage in Silt-Sized Aggregates Formed during a Microcosm Experiment (2014) (22)
Decomposition of distinct organic matter pools is regulated by moisture status in structured wetland soils. (2015) (20)
Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (19)
Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners. (2021) (18)
Fire severity, time since fire, and site-level characteristics influence streamwater chemistry at baseflow conditions in catchments of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA (2019) (18)
Differential effects of wetting and drying on soil CO2 concentration and flux in near-surface vs. deep soil layers (2020) (18)
The role of the physical properties of soil in determining biogeochemical responses to soil warming (2019) (17)
Pyrogenic carbon erosion after the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park: The Role of Burn Severity and Slope (2019) (17)
Towards diverse representation and inclusion in soil science in the United States (2021) (16)
Women in Soil Science: Growing Participation, Emerging Gaps, and the Opportunities for Advancement in the USA (2019) (16)
The future of ecology is collaborative, inclusive and deconstructs biases (2018) (14)
Soil properties and combustion temperature: Controls on the decomposition rate of pyrogenic organic matter (2019) (14)
Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab (2020) (14)
Vulnerability of Physically Protected Soil Organic Carbon to Loss Under Low Severity Fires (2018) (14)
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0 (2021) (12)
174 Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Scenarios BOXES 7 (2006) (12)
Soil Degradation and Global Change: Role of Soil Erosion and Deposition in Carbon Sequestration (2005) (11)
Divergent controls of soil organic carbon between observations and process-based models (2021) (10)
Effect of litterbags on rate of organic substrate decomposition along soil depth and geomorphic gradients (2013) (10)
Lignin from white-rotted European beech deadwood and soil functions (2019) (9)
Effect of Cover Crop on Carbon Distribution in Size and Density Separated Soil Aggregates (2020) (9)
Race and racism in soil science (2020) (9)
Biochar can be used to recapture essential nutrients from dairy wastewater and improve soil quality (2014) (9)
Stabilization Mechanisms and Decomposition Potential of Eroded Soil Organic Matter Pools in Temperate Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California (2019) (9)
The isotopes and biomarker approaches for identifying eroded organic matter sources in sediments: A review (2020) (8)
Key drivers of pyrogenic carbon redistribution during a simulated rainfall event (2020) (7)
Can SOC modelling be improved by accounting for pedogenesis? (2019) (6)
First interactions with the hydrologic cycle determine pyrogenic carbon's fate in the Earth system (2020) (6)
Depth dependence of climatic controls on soil microbial community activity and composition (2021) (6)
Deep in the Sierra Nevada critical zone: saprock represents a large terrestrial organic carbon stock (2021) (6)
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect (2020) (5)
Active microbial biomass decreases, but microbial growth potential remains similar across soil depth profiles under deeply- vs. shallow-rooted plants (2021) (5)
Phosphorus Speciation in Atmospherically Deposited Particulate Matter and Implications for Terrestrial Ecosystem Productivity. (2019) (5)
Changing Academic Cultures to Respond to Hostile Climates (2020) (5)
Drivers of soil change (2019) (4)
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect (2021) (4)
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0 (2020) (4)
Politicizing Indiscriminate Terror: Imagining an Inclusive Framework for the Anti-Landmines Movement (2005) (4)
An open source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: ISRaD version 1.0 (2019) (4)
Pyrolysis temperature and soil depth interactions determine PyC turnover and induced soil organic carbon priming (2021) (4)
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage (2022) (3)
Microbial community response to permafrost thaw after wildfire in an Alaskan upland boreal forest (2012) (3)
Corrigendum to “Impacts of organic matter amendments on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in grassland soils” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 68 (2014) 52–61] (2014) (3)
Physical Protection and Mean Residence Time of Soil Carbon (2018) (3)
Stream Water Chemistry in Mixed-Conifer Headwater Basins: Role of Water Sources, Seasonality, Watershed Characteristics, and Disturbances (2021) (2)
Burn Intensity Drives the Alteration of Phenolic Lignin to (Poly) Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Revealed by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). (2022) (2)
On the relationship of armed conflicts with climate change (2022) (2)
Impacts of climate and disturbance on nutrient fluxes and stoichiometry in mixed-conifer forests (2022) (2)
Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows. (2022) (2)
Of Land and Identity: Territorialization of Eritrean National Identity (2004) (2)
Hydraulic redistribution by deeply rooted grasses and its ecohydrologic implications in the southern Great Plains of North America (2021) (2)
Predicting Plant-Accessible Water in the Critical Zone: Mountain Ecosystems in a Mediterranean Climate (2017) (2)
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated (2023) (1)
Belowground carbon varied with aboveground carbon along an elevation gradient at Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory in California (2019) (1)
From the Classroom to the Field: Intervention Training to Address Sexual Harassment in the Geosciences (2017) (1)
Research, part of a Special Feature on Scenarios of global ecosystem services Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview (2006) (1)
Dairy Manure Co-composting with Wood Biochar Plays a Critical Role in Meeting Global Methane Goals (2022) (1)
A Critical Feminist Approach from the Geosciences to Transform Workplace Climate in Partnership with Professional Associations (2022) (1)
Soil geochemistry as a driver of soil organic matter composition: insights from a soil chronosequence (2021) (1)
Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences (2020) (1)
Aging and weathering of cool roofing membranes - eScholarship (2005) (1)
What’s Soil Got to Do with Climate Change? (2022) (1)
ADVANCEGEO PARTNERSHIP: EMPOWERING GEOSCIENTISTS TO TRANSFORM WORKPLACE CLIMATE THROUGH BEHAVIORAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (2019) (1)
Fire severity, time since fire, and site-level characteristics influence streamwater chemistry at baseflow conditions in catchments of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA (2019) (1)
Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes (2022) (1)
Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes (2020) (1)
Soil Signals Tell of Landscape Disturbances (2020) (1)
Reflections on Earth surface research (2021) (1)
Synergy between compost and cover crops leads to increased subsurface soil carbon storage (2021) (1)
Empowering Geoscientists to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences: The Case of ADVANCEGeo Partnership to Promote Institutional and Cultural Change (2020) (0)
Soil depth gradients in microbial growth kinetics under deeply- vs. shallow-rooted plants (2021) (0)
Technical report / Wind turbines for pumping applications (1983) (0)
Comparative Study on The Determination of Some Major, Minor-Essential and Toxic Metals From Two Species of Cactus Fruit (Opuntia Ficus Indica and Opuntia Stricta ) and Their Supporting Soil Samples Cultivated in Two Zones of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia (2016) (0)
Beyond clay - using selective extractions to improve predictions of soil carbon content (2016) (0)
Mineral-organic matter associations in eroding hillslopes: findings from headwater catchments in the Southern Sierra Nevada (Invited) (2013) (0)
Micro-Scale Patterns of Organic Matter Decomposition and Storage Within a Buried Paleosol (2019) (0)
Distribution and Composition of Soil Organic Matter in a Buried Soil: Differences Along Eroding and Depositional Transects (2019) (0)
Control of Vertical Soil Variation on Temporal Variation of Soil CO 2 Production and Emissions (2011) (0)
Erosional distribution of metal oxides and its implication for soil carbon dynamics (2015) (0)
Role of CaCO3 and Charcoal Application on Organic Matter Retention in Silt-sized Aggregates (2011) (0)
TRANSFORMING WORKPLACE CLIMATE THROUGH BEHAVIORAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, RESULTS FROM A GEOSCIENCES WORKPLACE CLIMATE SURVEY BY THE ADVANCEGEO PARTNERSHIP (2021) (0)
Geomorphic controls on the amount and quality of organic matter associated with mineral surfaces (2005) (0)
DIGGING DEEPER: PERSISTENCE AND CLIMATE SENSITIVITY OF DEEP SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (2020) (0)
VULNERABILITY OF ANCIENT CARBON TO MODERN EROSIONAL PROCESSES (2018) (0)
Hydrological controls on rate of organic matter mineralization in peats (2016) (0)
The U.S. National Committee for Soil Science: Activities, Opportunities for Service (2020) (0)
Distribution of carbon varies among soil organic matter pools isolated by electrostatic fractionation in ancient, buried soils along an erosional transect (2019) (0)
Effects of Pedogenic Fe Oxides on Soil Aggregate-Associated Carbon (2017) (0)
Using stable isotopes to determine sources of eroded carbon in low-order Sierra Nevada catchments (2013) (0)
INITIATION OF A DIVERSE MULTI-CAMPUS NETWORK TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEM CHANGE (2020) (0)
Soil carbon persistence linked to mineralogy across sub-Saharan Africa (2021) (0)
Supplementary material to "Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa" (2020) (0)
Healthy Soils for Healthy Societies (2017) (0)
Linkages between Aggregate Turnover Rate and Soil Organic Matter Dynamics (2019) (0)
Erosion of bulk and pyrogenic C from upland forested Sierra Nevada ecosystems (2012) (0)
Alterations of Soil Physical and Biogeochemical Properties Induced by Low Intensity Fire (2017) (0)
Composition and mean residence time of soil organic matter eroded from temperate, forested catchments: implications for erosion-induced carbon sequestration (2014) (0)
Stabilization of Organic Matter by Interactions with Iron Oxides: Relative Importance of Sorption vs. Aggregation (2015) (0)
Thermal alteration of dissolved organic matter: observations from a lab heating experiment and fire-impacted watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, California (2016) (0)
Hillslope erosion and hydrologic response in two small watersheds in Yosemite National Park following the 2013 Rim Fire, CA (2016) (0)
Preface: Tropical biogeochemistry of soils in the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes region (2021) (0)
Aeolian Particulate Matter as a Source of Bioavailable P to Sierra Nevada Soil (2019) (0)
Climatic controls on soil and saprock nitrogen distribution and persistence in the Sierra Nevada (2022) (0)
combustion: a space for time substitution study to infer (2016) (0)
Linking biogeochemical and geomorphic processes to further our understanding of organic matter dynamics in the critical zone (2018) (0)
Mineral weathering diversifies the response of soil carbon and microbial dynamics to warming (2019) (0)
CLIMATE SMART SOIL MANAGEMENT: A WIN-WIN STRATEGY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ENSURING FOOD SECURITY (2020) (0)
Settling-velocity specific SOC distribution on hillslopes (2016) (0)
Mineralogical Controls on the Retention and Chemical Composition of Dissolved Pyrogenic Carbon (2020) (0)
Phosphorus Speciation in Atmospherically Deposited Particulate Matter and Implications for Terrestrial Ecosystem Productivity (2019) (0)
A CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACH TO TRANSFORMING WORKPLACE CLIMATE IN THE GEOSCIENCES (2020) (0)
Distribution of ancient carbon in buried soils in an eroding loess landscape (2017) (0)
Geomorphic Controls on High Elevation Meadow Soil Development and Biogeochemistry (2012) (0)
Physically based model of organic carbon mineralization under varying soil environmental conditions (2015) (0)
Empowering geoscientists to transform workplace climate through behavioral and institutional change, results from a workplace climate survey by the ADVANCEGeo Partnership (2021) (0)
Into the Deep: Interactions Between Plant Roots, Microbial Ecophysiology, and Soil Minerals shape the fate and persistence of deep soil carbon (2018) (0)
Responses of soil physico-chemical properties to combustion: a space for time substitution study to infer how changes in climate are likely to affect response of topsoil to fires (2016) (0)
The Soil Carbon Paradigm Shift: Triangulating Theories, Measurements, and Models (2016) (0)
Biogeochemistry of soil organic matter in dynamic landscapes (2019) (0)
Decomposition of organic substrates at eroding vs. depositional landform positions (2011) (0)
POST-FIRE EROSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATERAL DISTRIBUTION AND PERSISTENCE OF PYROGENIC CARBON IN SOILS OF TEMPERATE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS (2019) (0)
Drying-induced decomposition and associated changes in aggregation and carbon distribution in subalpine meadow soils: implication of drought (2016) (0)
Contingency in the direction and mechanics of soil organic matter responses to increased rainfall (2012) (0)
Contributors (2019) (0)
Role of Iron Oxides on Physical Protection of Soil Organic Matter Inside Aggregates (2020) (0)
Persistent lack of diversity in the geosciences: the case of ADVANCEGeo Partnership to promote Institutional and cultural change (2019) (0)
Buried soils as sources of ancient carbon along eroding loess landscapes (2018) (0)
Quantifying organic carbon fluxes in eroding hillslopes through MIR spectroscopy (2013) (0)
GEOSCIENCES, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND INCLUSIVE DIVERSITY (2021) (0)
Climate Warming Alters Nutrient Storage in Seasonally Dry Forests: Insights From a 2,300 m Elevation Gradient (2022) (0)
Recapturing nutrients from dairy waste using biochar (2009) (0)
Mechanisms of soil organic matter stabilization in sediments eroded from small Sierra Nevada catchments (2011) (0)
Influence of ultrasonic energy on dispersion of aggregates and released amounts of organic matter and polyvalent cations (2010) (0)
Soil organic carbon dynamics as affected by topography in southern California hillslopes systems (2015) (0)
Exclusionary Behaviors Reinforce Historical Biases and Contribute to Loss of Talent in the Earth Sciences (2023) (0)
Representation of diffusion controlled carbon stabilization in reactive transport models (2016) (0)
Post-fire erosion as an important control on Pyrogenic carbon dynamics in soil (2018) (0)
Stabilization of eroded soil organic carbon in two types of depositional basins (2004) (0)
Ten simple rules for creating and sustaining antiracist graduate programs (2022) (0)
Correction to “Dairy Manure Co-composting with Wood Biochar Plays a Critical Role in Meeting Global Methane Goals” (2022) (0)
Mobilization of Carbon and Organic Matter after the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park (2014) (0)
The future of ecology is collaborative, inclusive and deconstructs biases (2017) (0)
Deep Soil Carbon in the Critical Zone: Amount and Nature of Carbon in Weathered Bedrock, and its Implication for Soil Carbon Inventory (2017) (0)
Soil Organic Carbon Storage and Stability in a Highly Eroding La Rogativa Watershed, Spain (2010) (0)

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