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B.A. physics and mathematics (1991) Earlham College
M.S. Environmental Science (1993) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. Earth System Science (1999) University of California, Irvine

2017 Fellow, Geological Society of America
2006 Hamill Innovation Award, Rice University/Hamill Foundation
2002-2003 American Fellow, AAUW

biogeochemistry, soil sustainability, carbon, nitrogen, water cycling, synthetic biology

The Masiello research group focuses on carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles in the Earth system. We are particularly interested in the development of new techniques to study carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils, sediments, the atmosphere, and water.

Articles

Masiello, C.A. "Quick burial at sea." Nature, 450 (2007): 360-361.

Schmidt, M.W.I., and C.A. Masiello "Inter-disciplinary intercomparison of black carbon analysis in soil and sediment." EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88 (2007): 344.

Refereed Articles

Hockaday, W.C., C.A. Masiello, R.J. Smernik, J.A. Baldock, J.T. Randerson, O.A. Chadwick, J.W. Harden "The measurement of soil carbon oxidation state and oxidative ratio by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance." Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (2008).(Submitted)

Masiello, C.A., M.E. Gallagher, J.T. Randerson, R.M. Deco, O.A. Chadwick "Evaluating Two Experimental Approaches for Measuring Ecosystem Carbon Oxidation State and Oxidative Ratio ." Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 113 (2008): G03010, doi:10.1029/2007JG000534.

Zeng, FW, C.A. Masiello. "CO₂ evasion from two subtropical rivers in North America." Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (2008).(Submitted)

Czimczik, C. and Masiello, C.A. "Controls on black carbon storage in soils." Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB3005 (2007): doi: 10.1029/2006GB002798.

Hammes, K., and 42 others including C.A. Masiello "Comparative analyses of black carbon reference materials from soil, water, sediment and atmosphere and environmental implications." Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21 (2007): GB3016, doi:10.1029/2006GB002914.

J.T. Randerson, Masiello, C.A.,Still, C.J., Rahn, T., Field, C.B. "Is the oxidative ratio of the terrestrial biosphere changing? Implications for trends in atmospheric O₂." Global Change Biology, 12 (2006): 260-271.

Treseder, K.K; Torn, M.S., Masiello, C.A. "An ecosystem-scale radiocarbon tracer to test use of litter carbon by ectomycorrhizal fungi." Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2006): 1077-1082.

Mayorga, E., Aufdenkampe, A.K., Masiello, C.A., Krusche, A.V., Hedges, J.I., Quay, P.D., Richey, J.E., Brown, T.A. "Respiration of contemporary organic matter drives outgassing of CO₂ from Amazonian rivers." Nature, 436 (2005): 538-540.

Basile, I., Amundson, R., Stone, W., Masiello, C.A., Bottero, J.-Y., Colin, F., Masin, F., Borschneck, D., Meunier, J.-D. "Mineralogical control of organic carbon dynamics in an allophanic soil (La Reunion)." European Journal of Soil Science, 56 (2005): 689-703.

K.K. Treseder, C.A. Masiello, J.L. Lansing "Species-specific measurements of ectomycorrhizal turnover under N-fertilization: combining isotopic and genetic approaches." Oecologia, 138 (2004): 419-425.

A.F. Dickens, Y. Gelinas, C.A. Masiello, S. Wakeham, J.I. Hedges "Reburial of fossil organic carbon in marine sediments." Nature, 427 (2004): 336-339.

Masiello, C.A., "New directions in black carbon organic geochemistry." Marine Chemistry, 92 (2004): 201-213.

Masiello, C.A., O.A. Chadwick, J. Southon, M.S. Torn, J.W. Harden "Mechanisms of carbon storage in grassland soils." Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18 (2004): doi: 10.1029/2004GB002219.

S.G. Wakeham, J. Forrest, C.A. Masiello, Y. Gelinas, C.R. Alexander, P.R. Leavitt "Hydrocarbons in Lake Washington sediments. A 25-year restrospective in an urban lake." Environmental Science and Technology, 38 (2004): 431-439.

J.A. Baldock, C.A. Masiello, Y. Gelinas, J.I. Hedges "Cycling and composition of organic matter in terrestrial and marine systems." Marine Chemistry, 92 (2004): 39-64.

Masiello, C.A. and Druffel, E.R.M. "Organic and black carbon C-13 and C-14 through the Santa Monica Basin sediment oxic-anoxic transition ." Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (2003): Art. No. 1185.

Masiello, C.A., Druffel, E.R.M, and Currie, L.A. "Radiocarbon measurements of black carbon in aerosols and ocean sediments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66 (2002): 1025-1036.