Dr. Gene Kelly received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Kelly conducts research and lectures nationally and internationally on various aspects of soils as related to global change issues. His scientific specialization is in Pedology and Geochemistry with primary interests in the biological weathering of soil and studies of soil degradation and global biogeochemical cycles. 

His current research is centered on Global Soil Degradation and fundamental role of grasslands in global biogeochemical cycles. He is a member of the U.S. National Committee for Soil Science with National Academy of Sciences. He serves as an advisor to the United States Department of Agriculture with the National Cooperative Soil Survey, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, The National Science Foundation and several major research programs. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and is the recipient of the 2016 Soil Science Society of America Research Award. 

We were lucky enough to sit down and chat with him about soil degradation, agriculture, and biogeochemistry just to name a few topics! 

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected]. 

Thanks for listening! 

Sources:

NEON
https://www.neonscience.org/

Phytoliths
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/B044452747800212X?token=5D1FDF3F350F85C5597700E961080DEB99062657986F510DCED7E8E74B48C2AE178B0B0AFC6F4AEBCD6007C87CFFB9E5&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220816002908

Stable Isotope Ratios of Carbon in Phytoliths as a Quantitative Method of Monitoring Vegetation and Climate Change
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/003358949190069H?token=86113F67B1EBBE02EDA30C7DFEDFFFCA3238BF3757B561017C298C9C2DF12515140FCB4C3A434FE524A2187E4336564E&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220816004050

Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWgscqb-cw

The generation and redistribution of soil cations in high elevation catenas in the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, U.S.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/science/article/pii/S0016706117314738

Landscape Topography and Regional Drought Alters Dust Microbiomes in the Sierra Nevada of California
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.856454/full

Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-drought-microbe-laden-sierras.html

State Factors
https://watermark.silverchair.com/47-8-536.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAskwggLFBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK2MIICsgIBADCCAqsGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMW2k_R7uk9uqZ8bweAgEQgIICfPVju7-jKjunuLhV4CLHl_bS0nAL1NVUcAy6U62Z2itv-vPLnr3pRdeyXj0UTx3L6TsqEjb0z081T-nLQt3roT6Zu1qf4OiHALvVI3yZxLVOEJPvJguthVMQ-4FsDTfixfZJL7eN32cgbtueGvMWrTC6ntRiUcNB_weUIqfEOcTduQHd3N0-PknOGqPJV5sARebVy21szCdEgvI9ewvkJApRGaIVZNmlBeP2eVtIk1YEq73FyPTEk9yfH6ZCk2yicR1uEsg5lBqPlGp1o4Wzgnaqu0z7cgRWMuuPbftvGIDDr79vUb-YAEG9nyHTHfXr_Nym0v7lK-Tep0ntvNOtiMR4tSUk3gDdomr-9AOB1wZ1CARXtETZuKXxFYZPSj8dDrLa48Kc2vOWZWGzIOgrSMbenVxT7uDQivsilX3-Y-4baQUFk74SxJ_4lYS3AOxKYIeP1QUnwrlpEFTUVoA1UC1pi-prSHNoqb1UJ0qjQyDgzLagfd8CwHabZpul3P7pDZADqGJ4UcN0haebTO_PPuhiQjWftu8E-HZlfQXjKvFof_bsEKo8xEbWs473xyBSEr468AYsxv439pNqEsfUcU0vEaaoyCiFblVxr81Cm-rxcgJ3SlKIg7IiBeAX5886A1f9jZodA55985kLPgJFQFzI9Y1i6ROAnRxHiCTyhKjLjuWYnht7eZtDr7IDoKPuRJKK4Guk7-D5EtYpKUaeo2RtCE7t5eq-ceDL8v48OXoefWvRY3ivGyXjFOlxC651eqibdFlv-uW3LPH2t70zt2BUJ81pwDhHAmnQieYsZCIbs-ynf6vOJNXFir0snjHMomMqplN4b_i92vDOKA

For some deep level nerding out read Factors of Soil Formation by Hans Jenny

Josue’s New Paper: Link: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00516-22 [josue]