Dr. Alison King
@alison_elinor
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Soil, carbon, agriculture, global change. Assistant Prof. @UMaine. she/her
Joined March 2013
Paper now out in @ScienceAdvances “Soil carbon formation is promoted by saturation deficit and existing mineral-associated carbon, not by microbial carbon- use efficiency”. with @NoahSokol .
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RT @trajan317: Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with….
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RT @ajmargenot: Do soil enzyme activity assays need buffers? No. Building on previous work, we find buffers (i) *suppress* activity of pho….
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RT @RRitunnano: Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that….
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The Soil Functions and Trajectories (SOFT) Lab at the University of Maine is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil Biogeochemistry; details in link:
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The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the...
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I am recruiting a Master's student to study soil science at the University of Maine; please see linked pdf for details on how to apply!
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RT @ajmargenot: What's the fate of N co-applied with P as ammonium phosphates? Here, we show that fall-applied MAP and DAP N is lost over t….
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RT @muellern: New in @ScienceMagazine: Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture. It was a privilege to contribut….
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Agriculture’s global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an...
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RT @muellern: While irrigation is valuable for climate change adaptation, irrigated ag leads to GHG hotspots through multiple pathways: pum….
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RT @kaidi_wu: It's shocking how widely accepted Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is in both the psych field & public consciousness…. 70 years af….
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RT @EunkyoungChoi2: Did you know that rising temperatures 🌡️ impact your milk 🐮🍼?. Check out our new paper! We exa….
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RT @jordon_wade: This recent @sssajournal paper is a great example of how enzyme activity doesn't necessarily translate into actual mineral….
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RT @AaronPrairie: I'll be defending my PhD this Friday at 9a MT! Scan the QR for a Teams link. I'll be talking all about Regen Ag, SOM, a….
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RT @ceronkarol: "Female speakers had smaller audiences, especially among professors, indicating higher prestige for male professors even wi….
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RT @aribidopsis: I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic syst….
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RT @kurtisalexander: Probably the first climb ever of the General Sherman Tree, the world's largest tree. Researchers with the @AFSociety….
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RT @mzdsf: "Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency", nothing personal but about science of soil organic carbon!
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Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is defined as the proportion of microbial biomass growth C versus substrate C uptake, and thus provides a useful meas
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Data sources mentioned above.King et al. 2023: Prairie et al. 2023:
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Sustainability of agricultural production and mitigation of global warming rely on the regeneration of soil organic carbon (SOC), in particulate or...
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