CURRICULUM VITAE

Eldor A. Paul                                                    

Natural Resource Ecology Lab                                         Tel:  (970) 491-1990

Colorado State University                                                            Fax: (970) 491-1965

Ft. Collins, CO 80523                                                  E-mail: eldor@nrel.colostate.edu

 

 

EDUCATION:

1958       Ph.D.               University of Minnesota, Soil Microbiology

1956       M.Sc.               University of Alberta, Soil Science

1954       B.Sc.               University of Alberta, Soil  Science

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2000                      Senior Research Scientist, NREL, CSU

1994-2000                   Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences, MSU

1985-1994               Professor and Chair, Crop and Soil Sciences, MSU

1980-1985               Professor and Chair, Plant & Soil Biology, U. of California, Berkeley

1970-1980               Professor, Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan

1972-1973               Visiting Professor, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia

1968-1970               Associate Director, Canadian Grasslands, Intern, Biological Programme

1964-1976               Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan

1959-1964               Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

 

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Soil microbiology - microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, organic matter, plant-microbial interactions, molecular techniques for soil fungi, nitrifiers.

 

SERVICE AND AWARDS:

Associate Editor - Applied Soil Ecology

Associate Editor - Handbook of Soil Science, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL

Editor - Soil Organic Matter in Agroecosystems, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL

Reviewer: DOE-Global Change, USDA-NRI, NSF Ecology

1995 - Soil Science Society of America Research Award

1991 - Fellow, AAAS

1990 - Fellow, American Society of Agronomy

1990 - Fellow, American Society of Soil Science

1987 - Divisional Lecturer, American Society of Microbiology

1976 - Fellow, Canadian Society of Soil Science

1972 - Nuffield Award for Study at Rothamsted and Oxford, U.K.

 

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS (Total 240):

Thorn, R. G., C. A. Reddy, D. Harris, and E. A. Paul.  1996.   Isolation of  saprophytic basidiomycetes from field and forest soils.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  62:4288-4292.

Follett, R.F., E.A. Paul, S.W. Leavitt, A.D. Halvorson, D. Lyon, and G.A. Peterson.  1997. Carbon isotope ratios of Great Plains soils in wheat-fallow systems.  Soil Sci.Soc.Amer.J.  61:1068-1077.

Leavitt, S.W., R.F. Follett, and E.A. Paul.  1997.  Estimation of slow and fast-cycling soil organic carbon pools from 6N HCI hydrolysis.  Radiocarbon.  38:231-239.

Paul, E.A., K.L. Paustian, E.T. Elliott and C.V. Cole (eds.).  1997.  Soil organic matter in temperate agroecosystems: Long-term experiments in North America.  CRC Publishers Inc., Boca Raton, FL.. 414 pp.

Paul, E.A., R.F. Follett, S.W. Leavitt, A. Halvorson, G.A. Peterson, and D.J. Lyon.  1997. Radiocarbon dating for determination of soil organic matter pool sizes and fluxes. Soil Sci.Soc. Amer.J.  61:1058-1067.

Robertson,  A.P., K.M. Kingensmith, M.J. Klug, and E.A. Paul.  1997.  Soil resources, microbial activity and primary production across an agricultural ecosystem.  Ecol. Appl.  7:158-170.

Bruns, M.A., M. Fries, J. Tiedje, and E.A. Paul.  1998.  Functional gene hybridization patterns of terrestrial ammonia oxidizing bacteria.  Applied Ecology.  36:293-302.

Harris, D., R.P. Voroney, and E.A. Paul.  1998.  Measurement of microbial biomass C:N ratio by chloroform fumigation-incubation.  Can.J.Soil Sci.  77:507-514.

Princic, A., I. Mahne, F. Megusar, E.A. Paul, and J.M. Tiedje.  1998.  Effects of pH, oxygen level and ammonium concentration on the community structure of nitrifying bacteria from waste water.  Applied and Envir. Microb.  64:3584-3590.

Robertson, G.P. and E.A. Paul.  1998.  Ecological research in agricultural ecosystems: contribution to ecosystem science and to the management of agronomic recourses.  In: Successes, Limitations and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science.  P.M. Groffman and M.L. Pace, (eds.).  Cary Conference VII, Springer-Verlag, N.Y.

Bruns, M.A., J.R. Stephens, J.I. Prosser, and E.A. Paul.  1999.  Comparative diversity of ammonia oxidizer 16Sr RNA gene sequences in native, tilled and successional soils.  Applied and Envin. Microb.  In print.

Paul, E.A.  1999.  The soil biota and its processes.  In: Handbook of Soil Science.  M. Sumner (ed.).  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Paul, E.A., D. Harris, H.P. Collins, U. Schulthess, and G.P. Robertson.  1999.  Evolution of CO2 and soil carbon dynamics in biologically managed, row_crop agroecosystems.  Applied Soil Ecology.  11:53-65.

Paul, E.A., S.J. Morris, and  S. Bohm.  2000.  The determination of soil C pool sizes and turnover rates: Biophysical fractionation and tracers. In: Assessment Methods for Soil C Pools.  R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, and R.F. Follett (eds.).  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.  In press.

Collins, H.P.,  E.T. Elliott,  K. Paustian, L.E. Bundy, W.A. Dick,  D.R.  Higgins, A.J.M. Smucker, and E.A. Paul.  2000.  Soil Carbon pools and fluxes in long-term corn belt agroecosystems.  Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 32:157-168.

Stoyan, H., H. De-Polli, S. Böhm, G.P. Robertson, and E.A. Paul.  2000.  Spatial variability of soil respiration and related soil properties at the plant scale.  Plant and Soil.   00:1-12.

Paul, E.A.  2000.  Soil microbiology and biochemistry: directions and challenges for the future.  In: Soil Fertility, Soil Biology and Plant Nutrient Interrelationship.  J.O. Siqueira, F.M.S. Moreira, A.S. Lopes, L.R.G. Guilherme, V. Faquin, A.E. Furtini Neto and J.G. Carvalho (eds.).  Society Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, Lavras-MG, Brazil.  pp. 25-49. 

Sollins, P., C. Glassman,  E.A. Paul, C. Swanston,  K. Lajtha,  J. Heil, and  T.E. Elliott.  1999.  Soil carbon and nitrogen pools and fractions.  In: Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological Research.  G.P. Robertson, C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, (eds.).  Oxford University Press, New York, NY.  pp. 89-105.

Collins, H.P., E.A. Paul, R.L. Blevins, L.G. Bundy, D.R. Christenson, W.A. Dick, D.R. Huggins, D.J. Lyon, S.E. Peters, and R.F. Turco.  1999.  Carbon pools and dynamics in Corn Belt agroecosystems.  Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J.  63:584-591.

Morris, S.J. and E.A. Paul. 2002. Forest ecology and soil organic matter. In: J.Kimble, R. Birdsey, R. Lal, R. Follett and J. Heath (eds.). The potential of US forest soil to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect. CRC Press Boca Rotan Fl. In Press

Six. J., R.T. Conant, E.A. Paul, and K. Paustian. 2002.  Stabilization mechanisms of  protected versus unprotected soil organic matter. Implications for carbon saturated  soils. Plant and Soil. In press.

Fortuna, A., R.R. Harwood, K. Zilkaya and E.A.Paul. 2002. Optimizing nutrient  availability and potential  carbon sequestration in an agroecosystem. Soil Biol. and  Biochem. In Press.

Six, J., P. Callewaert, S. Landers, S.D. Gryze, S.J. Morris, R.G. Gregorich, E.A. Paul and  K. Paustian.  2002. Measuring and understanding carbon storage in afforested soils by  physical fractionation. SSAJ. In press.