News and activities
2025
November 06 Mr. Matthew Manu's manuscript was accepted! Congratulations!
August 22 Mr. Aviyan Pandey's first manuscript was accepted! Congratulations!
July 05-20 Three manuscripts were accepted for publication in three journals, all entirely based on the work in this lab. Congratulations to Matthew Manu fro his first publication in a high impact journal！ Cheers for the current and past lab members who have contributed to these projects!
July 01 Mr. Aviyan Pandey has been awarded the 2025 Bridge Scholar! Congratulations! This award is announced on behalf of the Agronomic Science Foundation and the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
June 13 A collaborative project between TSU and UW-Madison has resulted in a manuscript that was accepted in Environmental Science: Nano. Congratulations to Hanwei and Dr. Wei at UW-Madison!
February 05 Jianwei was invited to join a panel titled "Building workforce sustainability" at the "Higher Education's Path to Sustainability and Resilience" workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington DC.
January 10 Monica Gaire joined the lab as a Master degree aspirant. Welcome onboard!
2024
December 09-12 Lahiru, Matthew, and Aviyan attended the 2024 AGU annual meeting in Washington DC.
December 05-06 Jianwei participated in a USDA NRCS workshop in Denver CO.
November 09-22 Matthew and Jianwei attended the United Nations Climate Conference or Convention of Parties (COP29) in Baku Azerbaijan; As a teaching Fellow, Matthew presided a press conference for the NSF supported Climate Leaders Academy (CLA) at the COP. Congratulations to Matthew and this year's CLA cohort!
September 09-11 Jianwei presented his work on soil microbial model at the Soil System Ecology International Conference in Berlin Germany.
June 05 Matthew and Jianwei gave a guest lecture and showcased a demonstration of soil respiration measurement to a group of high school students at the Glencliff High School, Nashville TN.
May 23-26 Matthew and Jianwei attended the 2nd Climate Leaders Academy (CLA) workshop held at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole. The PIs and graduate team along with twelve brilliant CLA fellows had a great gathering with a goal to pave the way to thrive at the COP29 at Baku Azerbaijan this November.
May 07 Matthew, Aviyan, Lahiru, and Jianwei conducted roadside soil and plant sampling in six widely-distributed locations in Nashville.
April 12 The National Climate Change Roadmap (NCCR) was released and Jianwei is honored to be one of the working group members. The full report can be found here.
April 06-09 Xuehan, Jonathan, Lahiru, and Jianwei attended the 2024 ARD Research Symposium held in Nashville TN. Most impressively, Dr. Kevin Kephart, the Deputy Director of the Institute of Bioenergy, climate, and environment emphasized environmental justice (EJ) in all research, extension and education programs. The top two key area to improve are Participatory Science, and Data collection related to EJ.
April 03 Xuehan, Matthew, Jonathan and Aviyan attended the 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition during the Graduate Student Appreciation Week at TSU. Congratulations to Matthew who was rewarded the top three winners!
March 29 The former Ph.D. student Siyang's manuscript was accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (JGRB), and the teamwork has received tremendous support from colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, Oak Ridge National Lab, and Wuhan University. Congratulations to all and cheers for the wonderful collaboration!
March 26 Jianwei attended the "Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability on Agricultural Land in Tennessee" webinar hosted by TSU and USDA Southeast Climate Hub. Click here for the Climate Adaptation tools and resources.
March 15 Jianwei received the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award in the College of Agriculture, Tennessee State University. "Inspiring Everyone Around You" and "Inspiring Others is like Being Inspired by Others"!
March 14 Jianwei served as a co-author on a recently accepted manuscript that addressed how Switchgrass's photosynthesis responds to different precipitation treatments, e.g., dry and wet conditions.
March 04 Matthew, Aviyan, Lahiru, and Jianwei conducted the first roadside sampling at a location about one mile north to the TSU main campus. see photos in Gallery.
February 24 Jianwei and Jonathan served as the event supervisors at the Science Olympiad for middle and high schoolers at Tennessee State University.
February 07 The research team's manuscript was accepted in the European Journal of Soil Biology, and it explored the effects of altered precipitation regimes on soil respiration and the underlying microbial processes.
January 16 Aviyan Pandey and Matthew Manu joined the lab as the Master and Ph.D. degrees aspirants. Welcome onboard!
2023
December 1-12 Jianwei attended the COP28 in Dubai UAE, during which he and a few other faculty members from four different universities led a cohort of 12 students from diverse universities including TSU in participating and hosting various events and activities.
December 07 Jianwei was awarded a certificate for having successfully completed the Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course by the University of Cambridge and University of Dubai. Please check here for the certificate.
August 28 Congratulations to Xuehan who has been chosen to receive a scholarship to attend the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Nashville on September 26-28, 2023. The scholarship program was established to recognize outstanding students passionate about agribusiness careers.
July 11-13 Jianwei was invited to attend the Horizon Scan Workshop in Denver Colorado.
June 28 The USDA-NIFA funded warming and nitrogen fertilization research plots were officially launched today!
June 16 The power for the heaters at the warming and nitrogen plots was turned on at 3.20 pm! The experiment was officially tested!
June 08-11 Jianwei attended and presented at the Climate Leadership Academy (CLA) kickoff workshop at L'Anse, Michigan. What an amazing experience! Go the 2023 CLA fellows!
June 05-16 Xuehan attended the in-person 6th Training Course on New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling at Cornell University.
June 01 The University's application for the observer status of United Nations Framework Convention in Climate Change (UNFCCC) was successfully submitted online.
April 13 Jianwei coauthored an article published in Global Change Biology Bioenergy comparing eastern gamagrass and switchgrass biomass and forage quality under a range of management practice. see detail in Publication.
April 06 Jianwei received the 2023 College of Agriculture Outstanding Researcher Faculty Award.
March 31 Christina Kieffer passed her thesis defense, congratulations!
March 28 Jonathan passed his proposal defense, congratulations!
January 25 The research team's second video article "Simulating Temperature in a Soil Incubation Experiment" is available online.
2022
December 11-15 Xuehan and Jianwei attended the annual AGU meeting in Chicago.
November 21 Dr. Wei Dai joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome aboard!
November 04 Jianwei gave an invited lecture to the Ecology class at the East China Normal University.
October 26 Jianwei gave an invited seminar talk at the Department of Biology at Tennessee State University.
September 13 The research team's video article was accepted in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE). This is a second of this type since the first article and video published in JOVE.
September 02 Jianwei and Siyang (a former PhD student)'s coauthored article was published online, which explored the contrasting impacts of organic and conventional agriculture on soil respiration and microbial biomass. See the article in Publication.
August 25 Jianwei was interviewed on WKRN-TV about climate change and flood mitigation in Nashville.
August 24 Welcome new lab members, Alford Jonathan (master student), Naomi Von Bose (Dean's Scholar), and Kylan Clark (Biology undergraduate researcher)!
August 23 The Climate Change, Biogeochemistry, and Bioenergy (CBB) journal club will start this Friday (08/26), which conforms a biweekly schedule. See here for details.
August 18 A PhD research assistant position is available. Click here for details.
July 21 Jianwei received a research award from DOE.
June-July Jianwei visited the University of Landau at Germany and Rothamsted Research at United Kingdom.
May 31 Hanwei, a PhD student in Environmental Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison, visited our lab for a TSU-UWM joint project in soil sensor development. Welcome to Nash Vegas!
March 22 Jianwei participated in the Ag day at the State Capital Hill demonstrating his portable soil CO2 analyzer to legislature and policy makers.
February 16 Xuehan's manuscript was accepted in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS).
2021
December 13-17 Precious, Xuehan, and Jianwei gave poster or oral presentations at the Annual American Geophysical Union meeting held in New Orleans LA, and their presentations were made virtually for the first time!
December 03 Congratulations to Precious who passed her final defense!
November 05 Jiacong Zhou joined the lab as a visiting PhD student. Welcome on board, Jiacong !
October 29 Congratulations to Xuehan who passed her proposal defense!
October 04 A field campaign was conducted to prepare site for plots set for the funded USDA NIFA project. See gallery for details.
September 02 Lahiru gave a virtual presentation at the Tennessee State University Small Farm Expo.
July 28 Jianwei was invited to give a talk to a group of soil and ecosystem ecologists, postdoc and graduate students at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
July 25-27 Jianwei visited the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory of USDA ARS at Temple TX.
June 04 Jianwei received a research award from NSF.
May 25-26 Jianwei was invited to attend the TN Climate Data Summit virtual meeting and gave a short presentation about his climate change research at TSU. Click here for the program information.
May 17 The soil warming experiment was officially launched at the TSU campus farm today!
May 06 Jianwei was invited to join the Editorial Board of Applied Soil Ecology.
May 04 Jianjun's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology Bioenergy (GCBB), which elucidated that soil extracellular oxidases mediated soil organic carbon sequestration under nitrogen fertilization in bioenergy croplands.
April 30 Jianwei received a research award from USDA.
April 01 The weekly UCI-TSU joint lab meetings were officially launched. Thanks to UCI faculty and colleagus and for support from NSF funding agency!
March 16 Power is being introduced to the research plots. see Gallery for progress and details.
January 07 Xuehan Wang joined the lab as a master student. Welcome aboard, Xuehan!
2020
November 29 Congratulations to Ms. Min (Amy) Yuan who accomplished her one-year visit at TSU!
October 23 Min's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports, which elucidated the individual and interactive effects of nitrogen fertilization and bioenergy crop types on spatiotemporal patterns of soil glycosidases.
October 16 Precious passed her master proposal defense. Congratulations!
October 16 Precious's abstract was accepted in 14th Annual Graduate Climate Conference which is to be held virtually this year.
October 14 Siyang's manuscript was accepted in Nature Communications, which found out the long-term incubation data (>1.5 year) could improve the model projection of decade-long soil organic carbon dynamics under climate warming. Jianwei is the corresponding author.
August 25 Christian and Jaila joined the lab as the TLSAMP undergraduate research fellows.
August 19 Jianwei was awarded the Certificate of Recognition of Platinum Level Scholar at Tennessee State University.
June 11 Siyang and Madhav passed their final defenses today. Congratulations!
May 27 Jianwei was invited to present and serve as a panelist at the 2020 TSU Summer Virtual Writing Workshop.
March 13 Siyang was awarded the 2020 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI meeting student travel fellowship sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE). Congrats, SY!
March 07 Jianwei was appointed as Associate Editor for Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS).
March 06 Jianwei was awarded the certificate of Climate Change and Health Program by the Yale School of Public health. Click the certificate here.
March 06 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in PLOS ONE and it elucidated that nitrogen fertilization elevated topsoil organic carbon and nitrogen contents in switchgrass and gamagrass croplands, which however was likely driven by different mechanisms.
January 21 A full day training of Li-Cor 8100 analyzer was successfully conducted at the College of Agriculture. Thanks to all participants from various research labs and groups!
January 13 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports and it elucidated that nitrogen fertilizer, lack other management practices such as tillage, could restructure the spatial patterns of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in bioenergy croplands.
January 11 Precious Fego Areeveso joined the lab as a master student. Welcome aboard, Precious!
2019
December 09 Min (Amy) Yuan joined the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome on board, Amy!
October 18 Jianwei was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Biological Sciences at TSU.
October 16 Jianwei was invited to give a guest lecture to the Climate Change and Global Response class at Vanderbilt University.
September 01 Congratulations to Dr. Jianjun Duan who accomplished his one-year visit at TSU!
August 26 Jahnari Edwards (a Dean's scholar) and Dilovan Hayha (a Biology senior) joined our lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome aboard!
July 25 Jianwei received a research award from USDA.
July 17 Our research progress was reported in the Farm World, click here for details.
June 21 Jianwei coauthored on an article accepted in Science of the Total Environment, which revealed the influence of extreme climate events (i.e., hurricanes) on the nature of dissolved organic matter in rivers across states in Southern US.
May 22 One MS and two PhD graduate student positions are available in the lab. see the position announcement.
May 22 Jianwei received a research award from NSF.
April 09 Jianwei received the Outstanding Young Research Award from College of Agriculture at TSU.
April 03 Jianwei and Siyang coauthored on an article recently published in Environmental Pollution, which explored the effects of fly ash application on plant biomass and element accumulations based on a meta-analysis.
March 21 Our lab research work was reported in the news media, Vanderbilt Political Review. Click here for details.
March 05 Siyang received the 2019 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI meeting student travel fellowship award sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE). Congratulations, SY!
February 15 Madhav passed his Master proposal defense, congratulations MP!
January 08 The lab's first video article is published online (click here), which provides a spatially-explicit and quantitative way to sample soils in a research plot. Cheers for the team work! Thanks to Maggie Syversen, Siyang Jian and Madahav Parajuli!!
2018
November 15 Siyang passed his PhD proposal defense, congratulations SY!
October 19 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology, which integrated 22-year ecosystem carbon measurements with a mechanistic model and improved key microbial paramter estimates and long-term soil projections under climate warming.
October 19 Jianwei's coauthored manuscript (the corresponding author) was accepted in Geoderma, which discovered that relative to initial conditions, subsurface soil layers (20-60cm) subjected to long term fertilization remain as net carbon sink in the indigenously high fertility croplands and as net carbon source at low fertility croplands, disregardless fertilization treatments (cropping with no fertilization, chemical fertilizers, and manure).
September 6 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), which provides an experimental protocol to sample soils in a heterogeneous plot using a spatially-explicit and statistically-rigorous sampling design.
August 31 Dr. Jianjun Duan started his one-year visit in the lab. Welcome, Dr. Duan!
August 22 Maggie Syversen joined the lab as a Dean's scholar. Welcome onboard, Maggie!
July 17 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), which represents an output of the cross-departmental collaborations between environmental science department and human health science department at TSU.
June 20 Mr. Madhav Parajuli will join the lab as a master student in Fall 2018 with research focus on moisture regimes and soil microbial response. Welcome on board, Madhav!
June 11 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Global Change Biology, which identified a linkage of responses of ligninase activity (but not cellulolase) to warming with soil respiration.
June 1-10 Jianwei was invited to give a talk in Institute of Applied Ecology of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS-IAE) and a lecture to the Ph.D. level course (Advanced Ecology) in Beijing Forestry University (BFU).
March 16 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology Bioenergy, which identified differential underlying microbial mechanisms driving effects of nitrogen fertilization and warming on soil respiration in switchgrass croplands.
January 08 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Scientific Reports, which investigated how climate warming and soil legacy interacted each other and mediated soil functional changes.
2017
December 12 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports, which elucidated the effects of nitrogen fertilization on spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial biomass in two bioenergy croplands.
September 18 Siyang received ISCN/PCN Data Hackathon award which will fund his travel to attend the 2017 AGU fall meeting in New Orleans this December, Congratulations SY!
September 10 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in the International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (TSDW).
June-July Jianwei was invited to give a lecture in Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China.
April 18 Congratulations to Dr. Chunlan Guo who accomplished her one-year visit at TSU!
March 14 Jianwei and Siyang participated in the Ag Day at the Capitol (Nashville TN) and presented a demonstration on measuring soil respiration.
February 01 Jianwei and Siyang participated in the TSU Day at the Capitol (Nashville TN) and presented a demonstration on measuring soil respiration.
January 16 The experiment-model integration project takes off! The project was funded through a subcontract with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy (DOE).
January 01 Mr. Siyang Jian continued his PhD study in the lab in Spring 2017 with focus on data-model integration. Welcome on board, Siyang!
January 01 Mr. Keshab Subedi joined the lab as a PhD student in Spring 2017 with focus on moisture regimes and soil biogeochemistry. Welcome on board, Keshab!
2016
December 12 Siyang presented his thesis work at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco CA.
August -October In the course AGSC 5500 Environmental Issues and Sustainability, students can learn fundamental theories and laws of nature in classroom and acquire hands-on experience in the best classroom that mother Nature offered. see Gallery for students' field trips and lab activities.
September 16 Jianwei gave a departmental seminar at Department of Geological Sciences, Univ. Alabama.
August 18 Mr. Siyang Jian successfully defended his master thesis today! Congratulations, Siyang!
August 02 One MS and one PhD positions are currently available and expect to start in Spring or Fall 2017 in the lab. Please click here for the position announcement.
July 03 The master student, Mr. Siyang Jian published his first thesis work in the international prestigious journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry (# 1 in Soil Science). It represents a very comprehensive data analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on soil extracellular enzyme activities! Congratulations, Siyang!
June 14 "Warning! Dangers Ahead for Science", a warning from Sigma Xi. Click here for details online, or click here for a pdf.
June 03 A research paper by Chen et al was accepted in Global Change Biology and both Jianwei and Siyang are coauthors. Congratulations, Ji!
April 20 Dr. Guo joined the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome on board, Chunlan! A former visiting scholar, Mr. Cheng accomplished his half-year visit at TSU on March 31 this year.
April 15 Congratulations to Sherly and Siyang, who were awarded as the first place in Graduate Science II oral presentations in 38th University-wide Research Symposium at TSU!
April 01 This month marks the start of a new growing season and a few field campaigns will come along. See Gallery for details.
2015
October 01 Mr. Wenjing Cheng joined the lab as a visiting scholar and has actively conducted his research projects in the TSU's organic farm.
September 03 A research paper by Xie et al was accepted in Scientific Reports and Jianwei is the corresponding author. Congrats, HT!
August 25 Jianwei started teaching the undergraduate course "Fundamentals of Environmental Science" (AGSC 2400).
August 20 Sherly Celada joined the job for her PhD degree in biological science, welcome on aboard!
August 10 Siyang made his first but well-accepted poster presentation at the 100th Ecological Soceity of America Annual Meeting at Baltimore MD!
August 07 Jianwei accomplished his visiting faculty appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory this summer.
June 06 A soil sampling compaign was accomplished at the TSU farm.
February 20 Jianwei coauthored on "Joint control of terrestrial GPP by plant phenology and physiology" led by Xia et al published in PNAS. Chase the ideas that promote our fundamental understanding of natural phenomena!
January 05-10 Siyang and Demetrius joined the lab for their master degree in agriculture and environmental sciences, welcome on aboard!
2014
July 15 Long-term dynamics of soil organic matter components are key to elucidate the variations of soil responses to global change. A coauthored research article employing biomarker techniques was accepted in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
May 15 How will C-rich Arctic tundra respond to global warming? What will the response differ under the stepwise and gradual warming scenarios? A first-authored research article was accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
February 16 In this data-rich era, data-model fusion needs to be further promoted for predictive ecology. A coauthored comprehensive review article was accepted in Ecosphere.
January 06 Could we keep fertilizing soils while contributing to soil GHG mitigation? A coauthored paper was accepted in Journal of Integrative Agriculture.
2013
December 23 What is the difference between the conventional first-order soil decay model and nonlinear microbial-enzyme models? Will microbial models with varying complexity predict differently from each other? A first-authored paper was accepted in Biogeochemistry.
October 08 Will plants persist and/or perish under extreme climate? A coauthored review paper was published on Environmental and Experimental Botany.
September 25 Could we keep fertilizing soils while reducing nutrient capital loss (i.e. nitrogen)? A coauthored paper appeared online on Journal of Integrative Agriculture.
August 04-09 I attended ESA annual meeting at Minneapolis MN. I am a fleet van driver, oral presenter, one session presider.
July 28 How will soil microbial communities mediate climate changes on soil decay? A first-authored paper was published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
2025
November 06 Mr. Matthew Manu's manuscript was accepted! Congratulations!
August 22 Mr. Aviyan Pandey's first manuscript was accepted! Congratulations!
July 05-20 Three manuscripts were accepted for publication in three journals, all entirely based on the work in this lab. Congratulations to Matthew Manu fro his first publication in a high impact journal！ Cheers for the current and past lab members who have contributed to these projects!
July 01 Mr. Aviyan Pandey has been awarded the 2025 Bridge Scholar! Congratulations! This award is announced on behalf of the Agronomic Science Foundation and the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
June 13 A collaborative project between TSU and UW-Madison has resulted in a manuscript that was accepted in Environmental Science: Nano. Congratulations to Hanwei and Dr. Wei at UW-Madison!
February 05 Jianwei was invited to join a panel titled "Building workforce sustainability" at the "Higher Education's Path to Sustainability and Resilience" workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington DC.
January 10 Monica Gaire joined the lab as a Master degree aspirant. Welcome onboard!
2024
December 09-12 Lahiru, Matthew, and Aviyan attended the 2024 AGU annual meeting in Washington DC.
December 05-06 Jianwei participated in a USDA NRCS workshop in Denver CO.
November 09-22 Matthew and Jianwei attended the United Nations Climate Conference or Convention of Parties (COP29) in Baku Azerbaijan; As a teaching Fellow, Matthew presided a press conference for the NSF supported Climate Leaders Academy (CLA) at the COP. Congratulations to Matthew and this year's CLA cohort!
September 09-11 Jianwei presented his work on soil microbial model at the Soil System Ecology International Conference in Berlin Germany.
June 05 Matthew and Jianwei gave a guest lecture and showcased a demonstration of soil respiration measurement to a group of high school students at the Glencliff High School, Nashville TN.
May 23-26 Matthew and Jianwei attended the 2nd Climate Leaders Academy (CLA) workshop held at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole. The PIs and graduate team along with twelve brilliant CLA fellows had a great gathering with a goal to pave the way to thrive at the COP29 at Baku Azerbaijan this November.
May 07 Matthew, Aviyan, Lahiru, and Jianwei conducted roadside soil and plant sampling in six widely-distributed locations in Nashville.
April 12 The National Climate Change Roadmap (NCCR) was released and Jianwei is honored to be one of the working group members. The full report can be found here.
April 06-09 Xuehan, Jonathan, Lahiru, and Jianwei attended the 2024 ARD Research Symposium held in Nashville TN. Most impressively, Dr. Kevin Kephart, the Deputy Director of the Institute of Bioenergy, climate, and environment emphasized environmental justice (EJ) in all research, extension and education programs. The top two key area to improve are Participatory Science, and Data collection related to EJ.
April 03 Xuehan, Matthew, Jonathan and Aviyan attended the 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition during the Graduate Student Appreciation Week at TSU. Congratulations to Matthew who was rewarded the top three winners!
March 29 The former Ph.D. student Siyang's manuscript was accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (JGRB), and the teamwork has received tremendous support from colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, Oak Ridge National Lab, and Wuhan University. Congratulations to all and cheers for the wonderful collaboration!
March 26 Jianwei attended the "Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability on Agricultural Land in Tennessee" webinar hosted by TSU and USDA Southeast Climate Hub. Click here for the Climate Adaptation tools and resources.
March 15 Jianwei received the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award in the College of Agriculture, Tennessee State University. "Inspiring Everyone Around You" and "Inspiring Others is like Being Inspired by Others"!
March 14 Jianwei served as a co-author on a recently accepted manuscript that addressed how Switchgrass's photosynthesis responds to different precipitation treatments, e.g., dry and wet conditions.
March 04 Matthew, Aviyan, Lahiru, and Jianwei conducted the first roadside sampling at a location about one mile north to the TSU main campus. see photos in Gallery.
February 24 Jianwei and Jonathan served as the event supervisors at the Science Olympiad for middle and high schoolers at Tennessee State University.
February 07 The research team's manuscript was accepted in the European Journal of Soil Biology, and it explored the effects of altered precipitation regimes on soil respiration and the underlying microbial processes.
January 16 Aviyan Pandey and Matthew Manu joined the lab as the Master and Ph.D. degrees aspirants. Welcome onboard!
2023
December 1-12 Jianwei attended the COP28 in Dubai UAE, during which he and a few other faculty members from four different universities led a cohort of 12 students from diverse universities including TSU in participating and hosting various events and activities.
December 07 Jianwei was awarded a certificate for having successfully completed the Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course by the University of Cambridge and University of Dubai. Please check here for the certificate.
August 28 Congratulations to Xuehan who has been chosen to receive a scholarship to attend the Women in Agribusiness Summit in Nashville on September 26-28, 2023. The scholarship program was established to recognize outstanding students passionate about agribusiness careers.
July 11-13 Jianwei was invited to attend the Horizon Scan Workshop in Denver Colorado.
June 28 The USDA-NIFA funded warming and nitrogen fertilization research plots were officially launched today!
June 16 The power for the heaters at the warming and nitrogen plots was turned on at 3.20 pm! The experiment was officially tested!
June 08-11 Jianwei attended and presented at the Climate Leadership Academy (CLA) kickoff workshop at L'Anse, Michigan. What an amazing experience! Go the 2023 CLA fellows!
June 05-16 Xuehan attended the in-person 6th Training Course on New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling at Cornell University.
June 01 The University's application for the observer status of United Nations Framework Convention in Climate Change (UNFCCC) was successfully submitted online.
April 13 Jianwei coauthored an article published in Global Change Biology Bioenergy comparing eastern gamagrass and switchgrass biomass and forage quality under a range of management practice. see detail in Publication.
April 06 Jianwei received the 2023 College of Agriculture Outstanding Researcher Faculty Award.
March 31 Christina Kieffer passed her thesis defense, congratulations!
March 28 Jonathan passed his proposal defense, congratulations!
January 25 The research team's second video article "Simulating Temperature in a Soil Incubation Experiment" is available online.
2022
December 11-15 Xuehan and Jianwei attended the annual AGU meeting in Chicago.
November 21 Dr. Wei Dai joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome aboard!
November 04 Jianwei gave an invited lecture to the Ecology class at the East China Normal University.
October 26 Jianwei gave an invited seminar talk at the Department of Biology at Tennessee State University.
September 13 The research team's video article was accepted in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE). This is a second of this type since the first article and video published in JOVE.
September 02 Jianwei and Siyang (a former PhD student)'s coauthored article was published online, which explored the contrasting impacts of organic and conventional agriculture on soil respiration and microbial biomass. See the article in Publication.
August 25 Jianwei was interviewed on WKRN-TV about climate change and flood mitigation in Nashville.
August 24 Welcome new lab members, Alford Jonathan (master student), Naomi Von Bose (Dean's Scholar), and Kylan Clark (Biology undergraduate researcher)!
August 23 The Climate Change, Biogeochemistry, and Bioenergy (CBB) journal club will start this Friday (08/26), which conforms a biweekly schedule. See here for details.
August 18 A PhD research assistant position is available. Click here for details.
July 21 Jianwei received a research award from DOE.
June-July Jianwei visited the University of Landau at Germany and Rothamsted Research at United Kingdom.
May 31 Hanwei, a PhD student in Environmental Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison, visited our lab for a TSU-UWM joint project in soil sensor development. Welcome to Nash Vegas!
March 22 Jianwei participated in the Ag day at the State Capital Hill demonstrating his portable soil CO2 analyzer to legislature and policy makers.
February 16 Xuehan's manuscript was accepted in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS).
2021
December 13-17 Precious, Xuehan, and Jianwei gave poster or oral presentations at the Annual American Geophysical Union meeting held in New Orleans LA, and their presentations were made virtually for the first time!
December 03 Congratulations to Precious who passed her final defense!
November 05 Jiacong Zhou joined the lab as a visiting PhD student. Welcome on board, Jiacong !
October 29 Congratulations to Xuehan who passed her proposal defense!
October 04 A field campaign was conducted to prepare site for plots set for the funded USDA NIFA project. See gallery for details.
September 02 Lahiru gave a virtual presentation at the Tennessee State University Small Farm Expo.
July 28 Jianwei was invited to give a talk to a group of soil and ecosystem ecologists, postdoc and graduate students at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
July 25-27 Jianwei visited the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory of USDA ARS at Temple TX.
June 04 Jianwei received a research award from NSF.
May 25-26 Jianwei was invited to attend the TN Climate Data Summit virtual meeting and gave a short presentation about his climate change research at TSU. Click here for the program information.
May 17 The soil warming experiment was officially launched at the TSU campus farm today!
May 06 Jianwei was invited to join the Editorial Board of Applied Soil Ecology.
May 04 Jianjun's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology Bioenergy (GCBB), which elucidated that soil extracellular oxidases mediated soil organic carbon sequestration under nitrogen fertilization in bioenergy croplands.
April 30 Jianwei received a research award from USDA.
April 01 The weekly UCI-TSU joint lab meetings were officially launched. Thanks to UCI faculty and colleagus and for support from NSF funding agency!
March 16 Power is being introduced to the research plots. see Gallery for progress and details.
January 07 Xuehan Wang joined the lab as a master student. Welcome aboard, Xuehan!
2020
November 29 Congratulations to Ms. Min (Amy) Yuan who accomplished her one-year visit at TSU!
October 23 Min's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports, which elucidated the individual and interactive effects of nitrogen fertilization and bioenergy crop types on spatiotemporal patterns of soil glycosidases.
October 16 Precious passed her master proposal defense. Congratulations!
October 16 Precious's abstract was accepted in 14th Annual Graduate Climate Conference which is to be held virtually this year.
October 14 Siyang's manuscript was accepted in Nature Communications, which found out the long-term incubation data (>1.5 year) could improve the model projection of decade-long soil organic carbon dynamics under climate warming. Jianwei is the corresponding author.
August 25 Christian and Jaila joined the lab as the TLSAMP undergraduate research fellows.
August 19 Jianwei was awarded the Certificate of Recognition of Platinum Level Scholar at Tennessee State University.
June 11 Siyang and Madhav passed their final defenses today. Congratulations!
May 27 Jianwei was invited to present and serve as a panelist at the 2020 TSU Summer Virtual Writing Workshop.
March 13 Siyang was awarded the 2020 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI meeting student travel fellowship sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE). Congrats, SY!
March 07 Jianwei was appointed as Associate Editor for Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (JPNSS).
March 06 Jianwei was awarded the certificate of Climate Change and Health Program by the Yale School of Public health. Click the certificate here.
March 06 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in PLOS ONE and it elucidated that nitrogen fertilization elevated topsoil organic carbon and nitrogen contents in switchgrass and gamagrass croplands, which however was likely driven by different mechanisms.
January 21 A full day training of Li-Cor 8100 analyzer was successfully conducted at the College of Agriculture. Thanks to all participants from various research labs and groups!
January 13 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports and it elucidated that nitrogen fertilizer, lack other management practices such as tillage, could restructure the spatial patterns of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in bioenergy croplands.
January 11 Precious Fego Areeveso joined the lab as a master student. Welcome aboard, Precious!
2019
December 09 Min (Amy) Yuan joined the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome on board, Amy!
October 18 Jianwei was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Biological Sciences at TSU.
October 16 Jianwei was invited to give a guest lecture to the Climate Change and Global Response class at Vanderbilt University.
September 01 Congratulations to Dr. Jianjun Duan who accomplished his one-year visit at TSU!
August 26 Jahnari Edwards (a Dean's scholar) and Dilovan Hayha (a Biology senior) joined our lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome aboard!
July 25 Jianwei received a research award from USDA.
July 17 Our research progress was reported in the Farm World, click here for details.
June 21 Jianwei coauthored on an article accepted in Science of the Total Environment, which revealed the influence of extreme climate events (i.e., hurricanes) on the nature of dissolved organic matter in rivers across states in Southern US.
May 22 One MS and two PhD graduate student positions are available in the lab. see the position announcement.
May 22 Jianwei received a research award from NSF.
April 09 Jianwei received the Outstanding Young Research Award from College of Agriculture at TSU.
April 03 Jianwei and Siyang coauthored on an article recently published in Environmental Pollution, which explored the effects of fly ash application on plant biomass and element accumulations based on a meta-analysis.
March 21 Our lab research work was reported in the news media, Vanderbilt Political Review. Click here for details.
March 05 Siyang received the 2019 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI meeting student travel fellowship award sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE). Congratulations, SY!
February 15 Madhav passed his Master proposal defense, congratulations MP!
January 08 The lab's first video article is published online (click here), which provides a spatially-explicit and quantitative way to sample soils in a research plot. Cheers for the team work! Thanks to Maggie Syversen, Siyang Jian and Madahav Parajuli!!
2018
November 15 Siyang passed his PhD proposal defense, congratulations SY!
October 19 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology, which integrated 22-year ecosystem carbon measurements with a mechanistic model and improved key microbial paramter estimates and long-term soil projections under climate warming.
October 19 Jianwei's coauthored manuscript (the corresponding author) was accepted in Geoderma, which discovered that relative to initial conditions, subsurface soil layers (20-60cm) subjected to long term fertilization remain as net carbon sink in the indigenously high fertility croplands and as net carbon source at low fertility croplands, disregardless fertilization treatments (cropping with no fertilization, chemical fertilizers, and manure).
September 6 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), which provides an experimental protocol to sample soils in a heterogeneous plot using a spatially-explicit and statistically-rigorous sampling design.
August 31 Dr. Jianjun Duan started his one-year visit in the lab. Welcome, Dr. Duan!
August 22 Maggie Syversen joined the lab as a Dean's scholar. Welcome onboard, Maggie!
July 17 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), which represents an output of the cross-departmental collaborations between environmental science department and human health science department at TSU.
June 20 Mr. Madhav Parajuli will join the lab as a master student in Fall 2018 with research focus on moisture regimes and soil microbial response. Welcome on board, Madhav!
June 11 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Global Change Biology, which identified a linkage of responses of ligninase activity (but not cellulolase) to warming with soil respiration.
June 1-10 Jianwei was invited to give a talk in Institute of Applied Ecology of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS-IAE) and a lecture to the Ph.D. level course (Advanced Ecology) in Beijing Forestry University (BFU).
March 16 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Global Change Biology Bioenergy, which identified differential underlying microbial mechanisms driving effects of nitrogen fertilization and warming on soil respiration in switchgrass croplands.
January 08 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in Scientific Reports, which investigated how climate warming and soil legacy interacted each other and mediated soil functional changes.
2017
December 12 Jianwei's manuscript was accepted in Scientific Reports, which elucidated the effects of nitrogen fertilization on spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial biomass in two bioenergy croplands.
September 18 Siyang received ISCN/PCN Data Hackathon award which will fund his travel to attend the 2017 AGU fall meeting in New Orleans this December, Congratulations SY!
September 10 Jianwei coauthored on an article that was accepted in the International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (TSDW).
June-July Jianwei was invited to give a lecture in Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China.
April 18 Congratulations to Dr. Chunlan Guo who accomplished her one-year visit at TSU!
March 14 Jianwei and Siyang participated in the Ag Day at the Capitol (Nashville TN) and presented a demonstration on measuring soil respiration.
February 01 Jianwei and Siyang participated in the TSU Day at the Capitol (Nashville TN) and presented a demonstration on measuring soil respiration.
January 16 The experiment-model integration project takes off! The project was funded through a subcontract with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy (DOE).
January 01 Mr. Siyang Jian continued his PhD study in the lab in Spring 2017 with focus on data-model integration. Welcome on board, Siyang!
January 01 Mr. Keshab Subedi joined the lab as a PhD student in Spring 2017 with focus on moisture regimes and soil biogeochemistry. Welcome on board, Keshab!
2016
December 12 Siyang presented his thesis work at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco CA.
August -October In the course AGSC 5500 Environmental Issues and Sustainability, students can learn fundamental theories and laws of nature in classroom and acquire hands-on experience in the best classroom that mother Nature offered. see Gallery for students' field trips and lab activities.
September 16 Jianwei gave a departmental seminar at Department of Geological Sciences, Univ. Alabama.
August 18 Mr. Siyang Jian successfully defended his master thesis today! Congratulations, Siyang!
August 02 One MS and one PhD positions are currently available and expect to start in Spring or Fall 2017 in the lab. Please click here for the position announcement.
July 03 The master student, Mr. Siyang Jian published his first thesis work in the international prestigious journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry (# 1 in Soil Science). It represents a very comprehensive data analysis of nitrogen fertilization effects on soil extracellular enzyme activities! Congratulations, Siyang!
June 14 "Warning! Dangers Ahead for Science", a warning from Sigma Xi. Click here for details online, or click here for a pdf.
June 03 A research paper by Chen et al was accepted in Global Change Biology and both Jianwei and Siyang are coauthors. Congratulations, Ji!
April 20 Dr. Guo joined the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome on board, Chunlan! A former visiting scholar, Mr. Cheng accomplished his half-year visit at TSU on March 31 this year.
April 15 Congratulations to Sherly and Siyang, who were awarded as the first place in Graduate Science II oral presentations in 38th University-wide Research Symposium at TSU!
April 01 This month marks the start of a new growing season and a few field campaigns will come along. See Gallery for details.
2015
October 01 Mr. Wenjing Cheng joined the lab as a visiting scholar and has actively conducted his research projects in the TSU's organic farm.
September 03 A research paper by Xie et al was accepted in Scientific Reports and Jianwei is the corresponding author. Congrats, HT!
August 25 Jianwei started teaching the undergraduate course "Fundamentals of Environmental Science" (AGSC 2400).
August 20 Sherly Celada joined the job for her PhD degree in biological science, welcome on aboard!
August 10 Siyang made his first but well-accepted poster presentation at the 100th Ecological Soceity of America Annual Meeting at Baltimore MD!
August 07 Jianwei accomplished his visiting faculty appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory this summer.
June 06 A soil sampling compaign was accomplished at the TSU farm.
February 20 Jianwei coauthored on "Joint control of terrestrial GPP by plant phenology and physiology" led by Xia et al published in PNAS. Chase the ideas that promote our fundamental understanding of natural phenomena!
January 05-10 Siyang and Demetrius joined the lab for their master degree in agriculture and environmental sciences, welcome on aboard!
2014
July 15 Long-term dynamics of soil organic matter components are key to elucidate the variations of soil responses to global change. A coauthored research article employing biomarker techniques was accepted in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
May 15 How will C-rich Arctic tundra respond to global warming? What will the response differ under the stepwise and gradual warming scenarios? A first-authored research article was accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
February 16 In this data-rich era, data-model fusion needs to be further promoted for predictive ecology. A coauthored comprehensive review article was accepted in Ecosphere.
January 06 Could we keep fertilizing soils while contributing to soil GHG mitigation? A coauthored paper was accepted in Journal of Integrative Agriculture.
2013
December 23 What is the difference between the conventional first-order soil decay model and nonlinear microbial-enzyme models? Will microbial models with varying complexity predict differently from each other? A first-authored paper was accepted in Biogeochemistry.
October 08 Will plants persist and/or perish under extreme climate? A coauthored review paper was published on Environmental and Experimental Botany.
September 25 Could we keep fertilizing soils while reducing nutrient capital loss (i.e. nitrogen)? A coauthored paper appeared online on Journal of Integrative Agriculture.
August 04-09 I attended ESA annual meeting at Minneapolis MN. I am a fleet van driver, oral presenter, one session presider.
July 28 How will soil microbial communities mediate climate changes on soil decay? A first-authored paper was published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
