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Richter, Jr. Nicholas School of the Environment Box 90328, A205, LSRC Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0328 USA Office Tel 919-613-8031; Cell 919-475-7939, Fax 919-684-8741 [email protected], @suelos2010 http://criticalzone.org/calhoun/ h-index 66, i10-index 155, citations 15,369 Education Ph.D. Soil Science & Ecology, Minor Statistics, Duke University, Durham, 1980 Graduate coursework: Soil Science, Statistics, Ecology, and Forestry at Mississippi State and North Carolina State Universities, 1976-77 B.A., Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 1973 Employment Full and Associate Professor of Soils and Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment, 1987-present Visiting Associate Professor of Soils, Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, Cartago, 1993-4 Assistant Professor of Soils and Watershed Management, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, 1984-87 Research Associate, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1980-84 Leadership Lead-PI with 15 Co-Is, NSF and USFS Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, 2013- present Chair, National CZO PI Committee of the nine USA CZOs, 2015 PI and Director, Long-Term Calhoun Experimental Forest Soil-Ecosystem Experiment, 1988-present PI and Director, International Network of Long-Term Soil-Ecosystem Experiments, 2005-present, (250 studies worldwide) Member, International Commission of Stratigraphy’s Working Group on the Anthropocene, 2012-present Co-Founder and Chair Working Groups on Soil Change, International Union of Soil Sciences and Soil Science Society of America, 2009-2015 Co-Director and Co-Founder of Southern Center for Sustainable Forests, NCSU- Duke-NCDENR, 1997-2010 Member, Critical Zone Science team that articulated and successfully lobbied NSF to create a Critical Zone science research and education program, 2003-2009 Director of Graduate Studies, Duke’s interdepartmental University Program in Ecology, 2004-2011 1 Chair, NSOE’s Forest Resource Management, Resource Ecology, and Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences Programs, Duke University, 1988-2000 Chair, Society of American Foresters Reaccreditation Review Committee, NSOE, 1997-1998; 2010-2012 Boards of Forest History Society, Durham, NC, 2011-2018 Directors North Carolina Governor’s Forestry Council, Raleigh, 1998-2014 Biomass Energy Resource Center, Montpelier, VT, 2007-2012 Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, NC, 1990-2000 Honors Fellow, Soil Science Society of America, 2015 Invited lectures at Stanford University, Wageningen University, Yale University, University of California-Berkeley, North Carolina State University, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, Virginia Tech University, University of Wisconsin, Forest History Society, Soil Science Society of America, and American Geophysical Union on topics ranging from soils, ecosystems, and critical-zone science to the environmental humanities and the Anthropocene Nyle C. Brady Lecture, Openning Address to the 2019 International Soil Science Society of American Meetings, San Diego, CA National Autonomous University of Mexico Lecture on the Year of the Soil, 2015 E.W. Russell Memorial Lecture, British Soil Science Society, Lancaster University, 2013 Keynote on Soil C-Fe Redox Cycles. Goldschmidt Conference in Geochemistry, 2013 Invited speaker, Soil Systems and Critical Zone Processes Conference, Monte Verita, Switzerland, 2013 Invited speaker, Penn State University, Interdepartmental Critical Zone Presentation, State College, 2013 Keynote, Beijing Normal University’s Hydropedology, 2013 Keynote, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Soil Organic Carbon Conference, Beijing, 2012 Keynote, Plum Creek Conference on Forests and Energy, University of Montana, Missoula, 2009 USDA National Experimental Forests, Ranges, and Grassland Award of Recognition for work at the Calhoun Experimental Forest, 2009 Keynote Lecture for Smithsonian Museum Exhibit on Soils, “Dig It!”, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2008 L.E. Nelson Lecture, Mississippi State University, State College, 2005 Teaching Teaching in the Nicholas School and University in soil science and 2 management, ecosystem ecology, earth sciences, forestry, bioenergy, and urban soils in graduate, professional, and undergraduate degree programs (First Year Undergraduate to PhD). Teaching includes lectures, discussions, writing and quantitative analyses, and seminars; field and indoor laboratories; and field trips to meet environmental managers at their own projects. Coursework ENV 340 & six departmental co-listings. Environment in Literature, Law, and Science, 40 to 55 students, 2015, 2017, 2020 ENV 593.23 Independent Readings and Discussion in Urban Soil Lead Toxicity, 5 students, 2019, 2020 ENV 721 Soils and Ecosystems, 3 unit lecture with weekly laboratories; 5-40 students, 1987-present ENV 762 Forest Management Traveling Seminar, 1 unit field trips and speaker stimulated discussions. Alternating themes: 6-20 students, 1997-present ENV 766 Forest Ecology of Southern Appalachian Mountains, 1 unit Environmental history readings and field trip, 12-25 students, 1987-present ENV 799.19 Independent Studies, 1-3 units, various topics, to undergraduate, professional, and graduate students, 1988 - present UPE 301/701 Advanced Readings & Discussions in Ecology, 4 units, historial and contemporary ecosystem ecology readings, 8-12 PhD students, 2006-2014, 2020 UPE 303S/BIO311S,UPE 704 UPE Ecology Seminar, 1 unit, 24-35 students, 2001-2003, 2019-2020 Previous Duke Coursework ENV 049 Into the Woods, First Year Undergraduate Seminar, 14-16 students, 2008-2014 Top 5% of undergraduate classes in post-class student assessment, 2012. ENV 201/701 Forest Resources Field Skills, 2 unit field laboratory, 12-24 students, 1989- 2014 ENV 213 Forest Ecosystems, 3 unit lecture with weekly laboratory; 15-30 students, 1988-2004, 2012 ENV 278 Conservation and Sustainable Development, 3 unit lecture and case-study field problems course, jointly taught with NCSU and UNC; Richter co-led course with Prof. Jan Laarman, NCSU, and J. Terborgh, Duke for about five years, 30 to >60 students, 1988-1995 ENV 298.13 Ecological Applications, 3 unit lecture and discussion, coordinated and led by Richter and co-taught with five NSOE ecology faculty, 1996 only, 40 students ENV 298.14 Forest Sustainability and Certification, with NCSU on video with live link throughout the state of NC, 2002 ENV 299.19 Tropical Watershed Management, 1 unit lecture and seminar, 12 students, 1993 ENV 299.19 Tropical Soil Resources, 2 unit lecture and laboratory, 12 students, 1993 3 ENV 321 Advanced Readings in Soil Science, 1 unit, readings and discussion, 5-12 students, 1995-present ENV 870 Fire Ecology and Management Seminar, 2005-2014, alternate years Other Teaching “Fertility of Acid Soils in the Tropics”, co-taught with D. Zeaser in Spanish for foresters and ecologists in Costa Rica, 1994 OTS teacher in Tropical Biology with Dr. Luis Diego Gómez; Soils and Ecosystems of Cerro de la Muerte, Costa Rica, 1994 OTS teacher in Tropical Managed Ecosystems with Dr. Jenny Reynolds-Vargas; Soil Infiltration in Andisols Managed for Coffee, 1992 Miscellaneous lectures and discussions in courses at Duke, UNC, and NCSU Research My research links soils with ecosystems and the wider environment, most recently with Earth scientists’ Critical Zone and legacy lead in urban ecosystems. I am mainly focused on how humanity is transforming Earth’s soils from natural to human-natural systems, specifically how land-uses alter soil processes and properties on time scales of years, decades, centuries, and millennia. I am the lead author with my PhD student Daniel Markewitz (now Professor at University of Georgia) of Understanding Soil Change, a widely reviewed book published by Cambridge University Press. Richter and his colleagues work to expand the concept of soil as the full biogeochemical weathering system of the Earth’s crust, ie, the Earth’s belowground Critical Zone, which can be tens of meters deep. The research examines yearly-decadal to millennial changes in the chemistry and cycling of soil C, N, P, Ca, K, Mg, and trace elements B, Fe, Mn, Cu, Be, Zr, and Zn across full soil profiles as deep at 30-m. Since 1988, I have led the Long-Term Calhoun Soil-Ecosystem Experiment (LTSE) in the South Carolina Piedmont, a collaborative study with the USDA Forest Service that quantifies how soils form as natural bodies and are transformed by human action. The Calhoun LTSE is a model for long-term above and belowground ecosystem studies. In 2005, Richter and students initiated the first international networking and inventory project of the world’s LTSEs, using an advanced-format website that has networked metadata from 250 LTSEs in real-time. The LTSEs project has held three workshops at Duke University, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Calhoun Experimental Forest, and Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, hosting representatives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. I have helped initiate Working Groups in the International Union of Soil Scienes and the Soil Science Society of America to promote the science of soils as human-natural systems and I am a member of the International Commission on Stratigraphy’s Working Group on the ‘Anthropocene’ that is evaluating 4 the renaming of the contemporary geologic epoch from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. I have written in the peer-reviewed scientific and environmental history literature, and in November 2014 my soils