Bio
Gabe Olchin is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory located on the campus of Colorado State University. He got his BS in Natural Sciences from Colorado State University in 2004, with a license in high school education and two teaching endorsements in science. While an undergraduate, he participated in two internships with the DOE at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory studying soil carbon dynamics and sequestration in forest soils. In the summer of 2004 he began working for Dr. Stephen Ogle working on the CASMGS project collecting, preparing, and analyzing soil samples to study soil carbon dynamics under different management practices using isotopically-labeled wheat straw to determine aggregate turnover rates. In the fall of 2004, he began his PhD candidacy within the Soil and Crop Sciences Department under the advisement of Dr. Keith Paustian at CSU. Using the two data sets from the CASMGS project, I will be developing a mathematical model integrating aggregate turnover rates and soil carbon dynamics to better understand soil carbon sequestration.
