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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Ronald Amundson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these areas, key subfields include Soil Science, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered by their work are Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Amundson has published numerous papers, including:

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems (2020, Nature)
  • Century scale rainfall in the absolute Atacama Desert: Landscape response and implications for past and future rainfall (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • The policy challenges to managing global soil resources (2020, Geoderma)
  • Factors of soil formation in the 21st century (2021, Geoderma)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Marco Pfeiffer, Teresa E. Jordan, Jennifer V. Mills, Jonathan Sanderman, and Jan Willem van Groenigen.

Their work is commonly published in several venues, notably Geoderma, Biogeochemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Amundson has authored a book titled Introduction to the Biogeochemistry of Soils published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Their contributions have been recognized by professional societies, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019 and a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America in 2006.

Best Publications

  • A new view of the tree of life

    Laura A. Hug;Laura A. Hug;Brett J. Baker;Karthik Anantharaman;Christopher T. Brown

  • Soil and human security in the 21st century

    Ronald Amundson;Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;Jan W. Hopmans;Carolyn Olson

  • Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen

    Ronald Amundson;A. T. Austin;E. A. G. Schuur;E. A. G. Schuur;K. Yoo

  • Rapid exchange between soil carbon and atmospheric carbon dioxide driven by temperature change

    Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Ronald Amundson

  • The Carbon Budget in Soils

    Ronald Amundson

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy.

    W Amelung;W Amelung;D Bossio;W de Vries;I Kögel-Knabner

  • Biogeochemistry: Soil warming and organic carbon content

    Eric A. Davidson;Susan E. Trumbore;Ronald Amundson

  • The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

    Ronald Amundson

  • Can C3 plants faithfully record the carbon isotopic composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Nan Crystal Arens;A. Hope Jahren;Ronald Amundson

  • Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems

    Basem Al-Shayeb;Rohan Sachdeva;Lin-Xing Chen;Fred Ward

  • The isotopic composition of soil and soil-respired CO2

    Ronald Amundson;Libby Stern;Troy Baisden;Yang Wang;Yang Wang

  • Soil development along an elevational transect in the western Sierra Nevada, California

    R.A. Dahlgren;J.L. Boettinger;G.L. Huntington;R.G. Amundson

  • Hypolithic cyanobacteria, dry limit of photosynthesis, and microbial ecology in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

    Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes;Kevin L. Rhodes;Stephen B. Pointing;Stephanie A. Ewing

  • Turnover and storage of C and N in five density fractions from California annual grassland surface soils

    W. T. Baisden;W. T. Baisden;R. Amundson;A. C. Cook;D. L. Brenner

  • Terrestrial record of methane hydrate dissociation in the Early Cretaceous

    A. Hope Jahren;Nan Crystal Arens;Gustavo Sarmiento;Javier Guerrero

  • Radiocarbon Dating of Soil Organic Matter

    Yang Wang;Ronald Amundson;Susan Trumbore

  • The critical role of climate and saprolite weathering in landscape evolution

    Jean L. Dixon;Arjun M. Heimsath;Ronald Amundson

  • A threshold in soil formation at Earth's arid-hyperarid transition

    Stephanie A. Ewing;Brad Sutter;Justine Owen;Kunihiko Nishiizumi

  • Tooth enamel biomineralization in extant horses: implications for isotopic microsampling

    Kathryn A Hoppe;Susan M Stover;John R Pascoe;Ronald Amundson

  • Spatial patterns of soil organic carbon on hillslopes : Integrating geomorphic processes and the biological C cycle

    Kyungsoo Yoo;Ronald Amundson;Arjun M. Heimsath;William E. Dietrich

  • Global Patterns of the Isotopic Composition of Soil and Plant Nitrogen

    R. Amundson;K. Yoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Arjun M. Heimsath
Arjun M. Heimsath Arizona State University
Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Sanderman
Jonathan Sanderman Woods Hole Research Center
Yang Wang
Yang Wang National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Kunihiko Nishiizumi
Kunihiko Nishiizumi University of California, Berkeley
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong

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