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Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu · 12/06/2026

Soil specialist Alain Plante, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, explains what soil is, how it works, and why its health matters far beyond plant growth. Learn more in a Penn Today Q&A. @upenn.edu @alainfplante.bsky.social

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Getting to the root of it: Why soil matters | Penn Today

Soil specialist Alain Plante of the School of Arts & Sciences explains what soil is, how it works, and why its health matters far beyond plant growth.

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Alain Plante @alainfplante.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It's been a long coming... Maura Slocum has her first publication from her dissertation research on Dark Earths from Ghana and Liberia. She found that not all organic C accumulated in dark earths is pyrogenic (char) - only ~65%. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Alain Plante @alainfplante.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Work on soil bioenergetics? Come present at CANVAS 2025 (Nov 9-12, SLC, UT) www.sciencesocieties.org/canvas Session entitled “Linking C and Energy Fluxes in Soil”, co-org by me, Liliane Ruess (Humboldt Univ of Berlin) and @arjunchakrawal.bsky.social (PNNL). Look forward to your submissions!

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Alain Plante @alainfplante.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Just published. This project began with a visit by Haiqing and Mingsheng to my lab to perform some thermal analyses and collab on a great long-term field experiment project. First paper was a long time coming, second paper in the pipeline... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Maize straw-based organic amendments and nitrogen fertilizer effects on soil and aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen

Application of organic amendments and N fertilizer can affect C and N sequestration, however, the degree to which diverse organic amendments and optim…

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Alain Plante @alainfplante.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Start your year with a manuscript submission. SBB is accepting submissions to a virtual special issue on linking carbon and energy fluxes in soil – from resources to consumers and back again. Studies that directly measure or leverage energy fluxes in soils are welcome. Click link for more info.

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Call for papers - Soil Biology and Biochemistry | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Soil Biology and Biochemistry at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Alain Plante @alainfplante.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Cool postdoc fellowship opportunity in sustainability and conservation science research in collaboration between Penn (me) and The Nature Conservancy (Stephen Wood). Details available at bit.ly/3RF565Z or DM/email me.

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