Nick Bouskill
@njbouskill.bsky.social
Nitrogen, microbes, & ecosystem modeling | Prof. @ Oregon State Univ. | Also rugby & cycling
New paper in @pnas.org on root water & nutrient uptake by PhD student Langlang Li! doi.org/10.15485/299... I usually thought plants would get some water from deep soil layers if needed, but rely for nutrient uptake on topsoil. Our data from an alpine meadow in Colorado say otherwise: Deep-rooted 🧵
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📢postdoc (18 months renewable) on modeling carbon dynamics in the soil-plant system, with a focus on grasslands emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Evaluation of the capacity of soil plant models to simulate carbon stock variations in permanent and temporary grasselands (M/F)
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Soil microbes grow, respire, die. Because their biomass eventually becomes necromass, and necromass can be stabilized in soil, growth rate emerges as a powerful predictor of soil carbon: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Microbial carbon use efficiency is a strong predictor of soil organic carbon stocks. Here the authors reveal that the microbial growth rate is a more reliable and informative predictor, and that model...
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It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
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Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5
🚨📢 Two tenure-track positions in Soil Physics AND Soil Pedology now open at Oregon State University! Come join us! 👉 Soil physics (due Nov 4th): jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173... 👉 Soil pedology (due Nov 18th): jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/173...
Assistant Professor
The department of Crop and Soil Sciences (CSS) invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The primary purpose of this position is to develop a...
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Excited to share our new review in Reviews of Geophysics! We explored the latest advances in tracer-aided mixing models for studying water in the Critical Zone. We synthesize new tracer methods, models, & key insights. I think it'll be a valuable resource for the community doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Recent Advances in Tracer‐Aided Mixing Modeling of Water in the Critical Zone
Tracer-aided mixing models are uniquely capable of identifying water flow paths and sources within the Critical Zone Recent advances offer novel tracers and models for deeper and more accurate in...
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Great paper 👏 @globalchangebio.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @angersd.bsky.social @sebdoetterl.bsky.social @stuartsoil.bsky.social @lugatoe.bsky.social @thuenen-som.bsky.social @katie-rocci.bsky.social @schweizer.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know?
Managing soils to increase organic carbon presents a potential opportunity to mitigate and adapt to global change challenges. However, soils differ widely in their biophysical limits for carbon accum...
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We used a synchrotron to show how tropical forest bacterial ecophysiology differs from their semi-arid counterparts under drought! I really enjoyed working on this with @als.lbl.gov, @daniela-cusack.bsky.social, and others not on the socials! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Climate history modulates stress responses of common soil bacteria under experimental drought
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You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications
Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...
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"My guess is, very few people would drill for oil without compensation; a great many people will try to defend the planet even if it costs them a lot." - @billmckibben.bsky.social
A Chill Falls on the Climate Community
First the scientists, now the advocates?
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