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Charlotte Decock Ph.D. student e-mail: cldecock@ucdavis.edu Resume (PDF)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Soils and Biogeochemistry, University of California, Davis. (in progress).

M.Sc. Bio-engineering Sciences, Environmental Technology. Ghent University, Belgium. 2007.
Thesis: The effect of substrate quality on microbial amino sugar turnover using compound specific stable isotope analysis.

B.S. Bio-engineering, Ghent University, Belgium. 2004.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in C and N cycling in soils and the impact of global change on C and N dynamics. In particular, I would like to investigate variations in N transformations as well as the microbial communities that drive these processes under elevated CO₂ and O₃ at the SoyFACE (Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) experiment in Illinois. I will focus on nitrous oxide emissions and their sources in different soil microhabitats using molecular and isotope techniques. Since nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas, it is of interest to further the knowledge of the biological sources of nitrous oxide in order to apply soil management activities that reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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