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Christina Schädel is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States and has a research focus encompassing Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The primary topics addressed in Schädel's research include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Recent scholarly contributions encompass a range of interdisciplinary studies. Notable publications are:

  • "Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic," 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)," 2021, Earth system science data
  • "An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Schädel frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field, including Edward A. G. Schuur, Andrew D. Richardson, Susan M. Natali, Paul J. Hanson, and Benjamin W. Abbott.

Their publications appear regularly in scientific journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Earth system science data, Global Change Biology, and Nature Climate Change.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Beyond clay: Towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

    Craig Rasmussen;Katherine Heckman;William R. Wieder;Marco Keiluweit

  • Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change.

    A. David McGuire;David M. Lawrence;Charles Koven;Joy S. Clein

  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic

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  • Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils

    Christina Schädel;Martin K.-F. Bader;Edward A.G. Schuur;Christina Biasi

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics and carbon vulnerability

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Daniel Fortier

  • Circumpolar assessment of permafrost C quality and its vulnerability over time using long‐term incubation data

    Christina Schädel;Edward A. G. Schuur;Rosvel Bracho;Bo Elberling;Bo Elberling

  • Long-term CO 2 production following permafrost thaw

    Bo Elberling;Bo Elberling;Anders Michelsen;Christina Schädel;Edward A. G. Schuur

  • Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra

    César Plaza;César Plaza;César Plaza;Elaine Pegoraro;Rosvel Bracho;Gerardo Celis

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • Quantification and monosaccharide composition of hemicelluloses from different plant functional types

    Christina Schädel;Andreas Blöchl;Andreas Richter;Günter Hoch

  • A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH 4 and CO 2 production from anoxic soil incubations

    Claire C. Treat;Susan M. Natali;Jessica Ernakovich;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and carbon dynamics in the permafrost region between 1960 and 2009

    A. David McGuire;Charles Koven;David M. Lawrence;Joy S. Clein

  • Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

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  • Short-term dynamics of nonstructural carbohydrates and hemicelluloses in young branches of temperate forest trees during bud break.

    Christina Schädel;Andreas Blöchl;Andreas Richter;Günter Hoch

  • The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)

    David Olefeldt;Mikael Hovemyr;McKenzie A. Kuhn;David Bastviken

  • Temperature sensitivity of organic matter decomposition of permafrost-region soils during laboratory incubations

    Rosvel Bracho;Susan Natali;Elaine Pegoraro;Elaine Pegoraro;Kathryn G. Crummer

  • Terrestrial C:N stoichiometry in response to elevated CO2 and N addition: a synthesis of two meta-analyses

    Yuanhe Yang;Yiqi Luo;Meng Lu;Christina Schädel

  • Adding Depth to Our Understanding of Nitrogen Dynamics in Permafrost Soils

    Verity G. Salmon;Christina Schädel;Rosvel Bracho;Elaine Pegoraro

  • Improving understanding of soil organic matter dynamics by triangulating theories, measurements, and models

    Joseph C. Blankinship;Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;Susan E. Crow;Jennifer L. Druhan

  • Nonlinear CO2 flux response to 7 years of experimentally induced permafrost thaw

    Marguerite Mauritz;Rosvel Bracho;Gerardo Celis;Jack Hutchings

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Susan M. Natali
Susan M. Natali Woods Hole Research Center
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Rosvel Bracho
Rosvel Bracho University of Florida

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