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Dr. Gene Kelly

Curriculum Vitae

RANK:

Professor

DATE OF APPOINTMENT:

August, 1989

 

EDUCATION:

B.S. Forest and Range Mgt, Colorado State University, 1980

M.S. Soil Science, Colorado State University, 1984

Ph.D. Soil Science, University of California-Berkeley, 1989

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Pedology, Isotope Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Ecology

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

2001-present Professor of Pedology, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

1995- 2001 Associate Professor of Pedology, Department of Soil and Crop Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

1989-1991 Assistant Professor of Pedology, Department of Agronomy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

1985-1989 Graduate Research Associate/Instructor, Department of Plant and Soil Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA. 1985-

1981-1984 Instructor/Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO.

 

ADVISORY ACTIVITIES:

Tri Societies NSF Hill Day Representative, 2005, 2006

Scientific Advisory Committee For CPER (USDA/ARS), 1992-present

Technical Advisor National Soil Survey Program, Washington, D.C. 1996-01

Technical Advisory Committee to Biosphere 2, Columbia University, 1994-96.

Technical Advisory to the National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE, 1992-96

Secretary, Western Regional Coordinating Committee on Soils Survey, 1989-92.

Chairman, Western Regional Coordinating Committee on Soil Survey, 1992-94.

 

CURRENT COURSE INSTRUCTION:

BY-220 Fundamentals of Ecology

SC-440 Pedology

SC-442 Forest & Range Soils

SC -550 Advanced Pedology

SC-784 Supervised College Teaching

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS (Chaired/co-Chaired and committee member):

Masters Degrees 10

Doctor of Philosophy 6

Graduate Committees 70

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Chadwick, O.A., Kelly E.F., Hotchkiss, S.C. and P. Vitousek (2007). Pre-contact vegetation and soil nutrient status in the shadow of Kohala Vocano, Hawaii. Geomorphology, 80:70-83

 

Blecker, S.W., R.L. McCulley, O.A. Chadwick, and E.F. Kelly. (2006)
Silica biogeochemistry in grassland ecosystems of the Great Plains. Global
Biogeochemical Cycles. 20 GB3023,doi:10.102.

 

Keeler, C., Kelly, E.F. and G.E. Maciel. (2006). Chemical Structural Information from Soilid State 13C NMR Studies of a Suite of Humic Materials from Lower Montane Forest Soil, Colorado, USA. Geoderma. 130:124-140.

 

Ziegler, K, O.A. Chadwick, M.A. Brzezinski and E.F. Kelly, (2005). Weathering Status of Soil measured by Silicon Stable Isotopes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.19:4597-4610.

 

McCulley, R.L, Burke, I.C., Nelson, J.A., Lauenroth, W.K, Knapp, A.K. and E.F. Kelly. (2005). Regional patterns in carbon cycling across the Great Plains of north America. Ecosystems. 8:106-121.

 

Stevenson, B.A., E.F. Kelly, E.V. McDonald, and A.J. Busacca (2005). Carbon Isotope Ratios of Soil Organic Matter And Holocene Carbonates Across A Bioclimatic Gradient In the Palouse Region of Eastern Washington, USA. Geoderma.124:37-47.

 

Farley, K.A ,, Kelly, E.F. and R.G.M. Hofstede . (2004). Changes in soil carbon and water retention following conversion of grasslands to pine plantations in the Ecudorian Andes. Ecosystems. V7,7:729-729.

 

Farley, K.A,, and Kelly, E.F. (2004). Nutrient Dynamics in a multi-age Pinus Radiata Plantation in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Forest Ecology and Management. 195:281-290.

 

Kelly, E.F . and C.M. Yonker (2004). Soil Forming Factors/Time. InThe Encyclopedia Soils in the Environment. Editor D. Hillel , Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, U.K. V1:536-539

 

Chadwick, O.A., R.T. Gavenda , E.F. Kelly, K. Ziegler, C.G. Olson, W.C. Elliott, and D.M. Hendricks.( 2003 ). The Impact of Climate on the Biogeochemical Functioning of Volcanic Soils. Chemical Geology. 202:195-223

 

Ziegler, K, J.C. Hsieh, O.A. Chadwick, E.F. Kelly, D.M. Hendricks, and S.M. Savin. (2003). Formation of halloysite as the thermodynamically metastable arid-zone weathering aluminosilicate end product. Chemical Geology. 202:461-478.

 

Cipra, J. E., E. F. Kelly, S. J. Lynn, L. A. Neve, M. L. Petersen, T. J. Wheeler, and S. Blecker. (2003). Use of geostatistics and remotely sensed data in conducting the soil survey of Rocky Mountain National Park. Soil Survey Horizons 44:1-4.

 

Green, C.H., D.M. Heil, G.E. Cardon, G. Butters, and E.F. Kelly. (2003). Solubilization of manganese and trace metals in soils impacted by acid mine runoff. Journal of Environmental Quality.(32:1323-1334)

 

Ziegler, K., Chadwick, O.A., Kelly, E.F. & Brzezinski, M.A. (2002): The δ30Si values of soil weathering profiles: Indicators of Si pathways at the lithosphere/hydro(bio)sphere Interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica. Acta, 66:A881

 

Doolittle, J., Stuebe, A., Price, A. and E.F. Kelly. (2002). Mapping Bedrock Depths with Electromagnetic Induction in Costilla County, Colorado. Soil Survey Horizons. 43:14-21

 

Monger, H.C. and E.F. Kelly. (2002). Soil Minerals. In Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Ed. J.B. Dixon. American Society of Agronomy Special Publication No 7. pp 611-63

 

Larson, M.R., Todd, L.C., Kelly, E.F., and J.M. Welker (2001). Carbon Stable Isotopic Analysis of Bison Dentition. Great Plains Research. Great Plains Research. 25-64

 

Grigal, D, J. Bell, R. Ahrens, D. Armstrong, R. Boone , E.F. Kelly, C.H. Monger, and P. Sollins. (1999). Site and Landscape Characterization for Ecological Studies. In Standard soil methods for long term ecological research . Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, eds. Oxford University Press, NY.

 

Jarrel, W, D. Armstrong, D. Grigal , E.F. Kelly, and H. C. Monger. (1999). Evaluating Soil Temperature and Moisture Status for Long Term Ecological Research. In Standard soil methods for long term ecological research . Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, eds. Oxford University Press, NY

 

Elliott, E.T, D. Coleman, M. Harmon, E.F. Kelly, and H. C. Monger. (1999). Methods of quantifying Soil Structure for Long Term Ecological Research. In Standard soil methods for long term ecological research . Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, eds. Oxford University Press, NY.

 

Harrington, R. R., Poulson, S.R., Drever J., Colberg, P.J., and Kelly E.F. (1999). Carbon isotope systematics of mono-aromatic hydrocarbons: Vaporization and soil adsorption experiments. Organic Geochemistryv. 30, issue 8A, p. 765-775.

 

Garcia-Oliva, F., Sanford, R.L., and Kelly, E.F. (1999). Effects of slash and burn management on soil aggeregate C and N in tropical deciduous forest. Geoderma. 88:1-12.

 

Garcia-Oliva, F., Sanford, R.L., and Kelly, E.F. (1998). Effect of burning of tropical deciduous forest soil in Mexico on the microbial degradation of organic matter. Plant and Soil 206 (1): 31‑38.

 

Nordt, L.C., Kelly, E.F., Boutton, T.W., and O.A. Chadwick (1998). Biogeochemistry of isotopes in soil environments: theory and application. Geoderma.82:1-4.

 

Hsieh, J., Savin, S.M., Kelly, E.F., and Chadwick, O.A. (1998). Oxygen Iisotope Composition of Soil Water: Quantifying evaporation and Transpiration. Geoderma. 82:269-293.

 

Kelly, E.F. Blecker, S., Yonker, C.M., Olson , E.E. Wohl, and L. Todd. (1998). Stable Isotope Composition of Soil Organic Matter and Phytoliths asPaleoenvironmental Indicators. Geoderma. 82:59-81.

 

Hsieh, J., Savin, S.M., Kelly,E.F., and Chadwick, O.A. (1998). Measurement of soil-water δ 18O by in situ CO 2 equlibration Method. Geoderma. 82:255-269.

 

Kelly, E.F ., Chadwick, O.A., and T. Hilinski. (1998). The Effect of Plants on Mineral Weathering. Biogeochemistry. 42:21-53

 

Blecker, S., Yonker, C.M., Olson, C.G. and Kelly, E.F. (1997). Indicators of Holocene Climate Variations: Pedogenic Characterization of Shortgrass Steppe Soils, Colorado. Geoderma. 76:113-130.

 

Connolly, S.J., Blecker, S.W., Cardon, G.E. and E.F. Kelly. (1996). Mineralogical Alterations of Soil Irrigated with Acid Mine Water in the Alamosa River Basin. Paper # TRP20310 In: R.A. Thompson et al. (eds), Geologic Excursions to the Rocky Mountains and Beyond. Colorado Geologic Survey Special Publication No. 44. Colorado Geologic Survey, Denver, CO.

 

Hanson, J.D., Palic, D.B., Dunn, G.H., and E.F. Kelly ( 1996). Spatial Analysis of Various Soil Properties in Semiarid Rangeland. Geocarto International, Vol. 11, No.3 pp 93-98.

 

Paustian, K., Cipra, J., Cole, C.V., Elliott, E.T. Kelly, E.F., Killian, K., and Yonker, C.M. (1995). Assessment of the Contribution of CRP Lands to C Sequestration and CO 2 Mitigation. Report to USDA-NRCS and USDA-ARS.

 

Gavenda, R., Smith, C., Chadwick, O.A. and E.F. Kelly .(1995). Fertility Status of Volcanic Ash Soils Along a Climate Gradient, Hawaii,, USA. In the Proccedings of the Indonesia Forest Soils Conference.

 

Chadwick, O., Hall, R., Kelly, E.F., Amundson, R., Gosse, J.R.Phillips, F., Jaworoski, C. (1994). Quaternary Geology of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Friends of the Pleistocene - Rocky Mountain Cell.

 

Chadwick, O. A., C. G. Olson, D. M. Hendricks , E. F.Kelly, and R. T. Gavenda. (1994). Quantifying climatic effects on mineral weathering and neoformation in Hawaii, Proceedingsof the 15th International Soil Science Congress. 8a:94-105

 

Chadwick, O.A ., Kelly, E.F., Merritts, D.M., Amundson, R.G. (1994). Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Consumption During Soil Development. Biogeochemistry, 24:115-127.

 

Kelly, E.F . 1994. Organic matter and sustainability of tropical ecosystems. Geoderma. 63:313-34

 

Wilding, L.P. and Kelly, E.F. (1993). A pedologists perspective regarding biotic controls on soil formation. Geoderma, 57:217-221.

 

Kelly, E.F., Marino, B.D, Yonker. (1993). The Stable Carbon Isotope Composition of Paleosols: An Application to the Holocene. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records, American Geophysical Union. Geophysical Monograph 78:233-240.

 

Kelly, E.F., Marino, B.D., Cole, C.V., Elliott, E.T. and Metherell, A.K. (1992). Modeling Water Movement throughout Ecosystems. Waltman, W.J., Levine, and Kimble, J.M. eds. IN The Proceedings of the First Soil Genesis Modeling Conference. USDA-SCS, Lincoln, NE.

 

Kelly, E.F. 1992. America's Renewable Resources: Historical trends and current challenges. J. Envir. Qual. 21:513-514.

 

Kelly, E.F ., Amundson, R.G., Marino, B.D. and DeNiro, M.J. (1991). Environmental and Geological Influences on the Stable Isotope Composition of Carbonate in Holocene Grassland Soils. Soil Sci. Soc Am. J. 55:1651-1658.

 

Kelly, E.F., Amundson, R.G., Marino, B.D. and DeNiro, M.J. (1991). The Stable Isotope Ratios Carbon in Phytoliths as a Quantitative Method of Monitoring Vegetation and Climatic Change. Quaternary. Research. 35:222-233.

 

Aguilar, R., Kelly, E.F., Heil, R.D. (1988). Effects of Cultivation on Soils in Northern Great Plains Rangeland. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. 52:1081-1085.

 

Kelly, E.F., Aguilar, R.,Muhaimeed, A.S., Deutsch, P.C. and, Heil R.D. (1988). Profile Reconstruction: A method to quantify changes in soil properties resulting from cultivation.Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment. 21:153-162.

 

Amundson, R. and Kelly, E.F. (1987). The Chemistry and Mineralogy of a CO2 rich depositing spring in the California Coast Range. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 51:2883-2890.

 

Schimel, D.S., Kelly, E.F., Yonker, C., Aguilar, R. and Heil, R.D. (1985). Effects of erosional processes on nutrient cycling in semi-arid landscapes.IN D.E. Caldwell, J.A. Brierley and C.L. Brierley (E.d), Planetary Ecology. Van Nostrand Rienhold, N.Y., N.Y.

 

 

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