Curriculum vitae

Keith H. Paustian

Natural Resource Ecology Lab tel: (970) 491-1547

Colorado State University fax: (970) 491-1965

Ft. Collins, CO 80523 email: keithp@nrel.colostate.edu

Education:

1977 B.Sc. Forest Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

1980 M.Sc. Forest Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

1987 Ph.D. Systems Ecology/Agroecology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala

Professional experience:

2001-present Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University

1996-present Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University

1993-1995 Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University

1991‑1993 Research Assistant Professor, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University

Professional service/awards (selected):

2001-2003: Lead Author – IPCC Good Practice Guidelines for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, National Inventory Guidelines

1999-2000: Lead Author - IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

1999: Review team - New Zealand National Carbon Inventory System

2001-02: Co-chair for CAST Report on greenhouse gas mitigation in US agriculture

2000: Planning Committee member - Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Facilities, Dept. of Energy

1997-present: Steering Committee member – IGBP/GCTE Focus 3, Soil Organic Matter

1999: Steering Committee member - U.S. Climate Change National Assessment, Agricultural Sector Team

1999: Task Force member - DOE National Taskforce to develop a Carbon Sequestration Roadmap

1996-97: Co-chair - IPCC Working Group on Methodologies for Country Inventories of Greenhouse Gases: CO₂ Emissions from Soils

1996-97: Contributing Author - IPCC Working Group II, Mitigation Potentials in Agriculture

Publications (selected from last 5 years):

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott and K. Killian. 1997. Modeling soil carbon in relation to management and climate change in some agroecosystems in central North America. In: R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett and B.A. Stewart (eds) Soil Processes and the Carbon Cycle. pp. 459-471. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA.

Paustian, K., E. Levine, W.M. Post and I.M. Ryzhova. 1997. The use of models to integrate information and understanding of soil C at the regional scale. Geoderma 79:227-260.

Cole, C.V., J. Duxbury, J. Freney, O. Heinemeyer, K. Minami, A. Mosier, K. Paustian, N. Rosenberg, N. Sampson, D. Sauerbeck and Q. Zhao. 1997. Global estimates of potential mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 49:221-228.

Paustian, K., O. Andren, H. Janzen, R. Lal, P. Smith, G. Tian, H. Tiessen, M. van Noordwijk and P. Woomer. 1997. Agricultural soil as a C sink to offset CO₂ emissions. Soil Use and Management 13:230-244.

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, M.R. Carter. 1998. Tillage and crop management impacts on soil C storage: Use of long-term experimental data. Soil Tillage Research, vol 47:vii-xii.

Paustian, K., C.V. Cole, D. Sauerbeck and N. Sampson. 1998. CO₂ mitigation by agriculture: An overview. Climatic Change 40:135-162.

Six, J. E.T. Elliott, K. Paustian and J.W. Doran. 1998. Aggregation and organic matter storage in cultivated and native grassland soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:1367-1377.

Doran, J.M., E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 1998. Soil microbial activity, nitrogen cycling, and long-term changes in organic carbon pools as related to fallow tillage management. Soil Tillage Research 49:3-18.

Frey, S.D., E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 1999. Bacterial and fungal abundance and biomass in conventional and no-tillage agroecosystems along two climatic gradients. Soil Biol. Biochem. 31:573-585.

Frey, S.D., E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 1999. Application of the hexokinase-glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase enzymantic assay for measurement of glucose in amended soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 31:933-935.

Six, J. E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 1999. Aggregate and soil organic matter dynamics under conventional and no-tillage systems. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63:1350-1358.

Guggenberger, G., E.T. Elliott, S.D. Frey, J. Six and K. Paustian. 1999. Microbial contributions to the aggregation of a cultivated grassland soil amended with starch. Soil Biol. Biochem. 31:407-419.

Guggenberger, G., S.D. Frey, J. Six, E.T. Elliott, and K. Paustian. 1999.Glucosamine and muramic acid patterns in conventional and no-tillage agroecosystems. Soil Science Soc. Amer. J. 63:1188-1198.

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, J. Six and H.W. Hunt. 2000. Management options for reducing CO₂ emissions from agricultural soils. Biogeochemistry 48:147-163.

Bruce, J.P., M. Frome, E. Haites, H. Janzen, R. Lal and K. Paustian. 1999. Carbon sequestration in soils. J. Soil Water Conserv. 54:382-389.

Collins, H.P., E.T. Elliott, K. Paustian, L.G. Bundy, W.A. Dick, D.R. Huggins, A.J.M. Smucker and E.A. Paul. 2000. Soil carbon pools and fluxes in long-term corn belt agroecosystems. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32:157-168.

Frey, S.D., E.T. Elliott, K. Paustian and G. Peterson. 2000. Fungal translocation as a mechanism of exogenous nitrogen inputs to decomposing surface residues in a no-tillage agroecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 32: 689-698.

Six, J., R. Merckx, K. Kimpe, E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 2000. A re-evaluation of the enriched labile soil organic matter fraction. Eur. J. Soil Sci. 51:283-293.

Six, J. E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian and C. Combrink. 2000. Soil structure and soil organic matter: I. Distribution of aggregate size classes and aggregate associated carbon. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 64:681-689.

Six, J. E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 2000. Soil structure and soil organic matter: II. A normalized stablity index and the effect of mineralogy. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 64:1042-1049.

Six, J., Elliott, E.T. and Paustian, 2000. K. Soil macroaggregate turnover and microaggregate formation: A mechanism for C sequestration under no-tillage agriculture. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 32:2099-2103.

Six, J., Guggenberger, G., K. Paustian, L. Haumaier, E.T. Elliott, and W. Zech. 2001. Sources and

Composition of physically defined soil organic matter fractions. Eur. J. Soil Sci. 52:607-618.

Bossuyt, H., K. Denef. J. Six, S.D. Frey, R. Merckx, and K. Paustian. 2001. Influence of microbial populations and residue quality on aggregate stability. Appl. Soil Ecol. 16:195-208.

Paustian, K., E.T. Elliott, K. Killian,J. Cipra, G. Bluhm and J.L. Smith. 2001. Modeling and regional assessment of soil carbon: A case study of the Conservation Reserve Program. In: R. Lal and K. McSweeney (eds) Soil Management for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration. Pp. 207-225. SSSA Special Publ., Madison, WI.

Frey, S.D., V.V.S.R. Gupta, E.T. Elliott and K. Paustian. 2001. Protozoan grazing affects estimates of carbon utilization efficiency of the soil microbial community. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 33:1759-1768.

Conant, R.T., K. Paustian and E.T. Elliott. 2001. Grassland management and conversion into grassland: Effects on soil carbon. Ecological Application 11:343-355.

Eve, M., K. Paustian, R. Follett and E.T. Elliott. 2001. An inventory of carbon emissions and sequestration in US cropland soils. In: R. Lal and K. McSweeney (eds) Soil Management for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration. Pp. 51-65. SSSA Special Publ., Madison, WI.

Denef, K., J. Six, H. Bossuyt, S.D. Frey, E.T. Elliott, R. Merckx, and K. Paustian. 2001. Influence of wet-dry cycles on the interrelationship between aggregate, particulate organic matter, and microbial community dynamics. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:1599-1611.

Denef, K., J. Six, R. Merckx, and K. Paustian. 2001. Importance of macroaggregate turnover in controlling carbon sequestration in soils: effect of physical disturbance induced by dry-wet cycles. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:2145-2153.

Eve, M.D., M. Sperow, K. Paustian and R.F. Follett. 2002. National-scale estimation of changes in soil carbon stocks on agricultural lands.  Environmental Pollution 116: 431-438.

Conant, R.T. and K. Paustian. 2002. Spatial variability of soil organic carbon in grasslands: implications for detecting change at different scales. Environmental Pollution 116:127-135.

Antle, J.M., S.M. Capalbo, S. Mooney, E.T. Elliott, and K.H. Paustian. 2002. Sensitivity of carbon sequestration costs to soil carbon rates. Environmental Pollution 116: 413-422.

Antle, J.M., S.M. Capalbo, E.T. Elliott, H.W. Hunt, S. Mooney and K. Paustian. 2002. Research needs for understanding and predicting the behavior of managed ecosystems: lessons from the study of agroecosystems. Ecosystems.

Paustian, K, J. Brenner, K. Killian, J. Cipra, S. Williams, T. Kautza and G. Bluhm. 2002. State‑level analyses of C sequestration in agricultural soils. In: J.M. Kimble, R. Lal, R.F. Follett and B.A. Stewart (eds). Agriculture Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl., USA.

Brenner, J., K. Paustian, G. Bluhm, K. Killian, J. Cipra, B. Dudek, S. Williams and T. Kautza. 2002. Analysis and reporting of carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases for conservation districts in Iowa. In: J.M. Kimble, R. Lal, R.F. Follett and B.A. Stewart (eds). Agriculture Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil. CRC Press, Baca Raton, Fl., USA.

Paustian, K. Soil Organic Matter and the Global Carbon Cycle. Encyclopedia of Soil Science. In press.

Antle, J.M., S. M. Capalbo, S. Mooney, E. Elliott and K. Paustian. 2002. Economic Analysis of Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration: An Integrated Assessment Approach. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (in press).

Eve, M.D., M. Sperow, K. Howerton, K. Paustian and R.F. Follett. Predicted impact of management changes on soil carbon stocks for each agricultural region of the conterminous U.S. J. Soil Water Conservation (in press).