<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span><br></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Ashley Lang, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Indiana University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Soil organic matter formation and persistence in eastern U.S. forests</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Forests are one of the largest terrestrial carbon sinks, and nearly two-thirds of the carbon in forests is contained in the soil. However, forests vary in their capacity to store carbon, and the factors that determine this capacity are not clearly defined. With my research, I am testing the importance of some of the most commonly proposed drivers of forest soil carbon storage— soil mineral composition, carbon quality and quantity, and large-scale environmental factors like climate. Using soil collected in forests across the eastern U.S., my work is aimed at uncovering both the conditions that support soil organic matter formation as well as long-term carbon persistence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><b>Friday Oct 27th </b><b>3:30pm. </b><br></div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><b>All seminars are free and open to the public. </b><br></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you have any questions regarding the seminar please contact Dr. Mark Lesser (<a href="mailto:mless004@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">mless004@plattsburgh.edu</a>)<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_lnxarkjh0" alt="Slide2.JPG" width="470" height="353" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div>