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Justin Richardson

@soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social
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Soil Biogeochemist at the University of Virginia located in beautiful Charlottesville on the Blue Ridge-piedmont transition. Here to share updates and thoughts on all things soil and biogeochemistry related. Website: Soilbiogeochemist.com

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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
40 years of forest soil lead shows automobile Pb has decreased but still present across the northeast US. Very happy to have published this work with great colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Pollutant Lead Mobility in Forest Soils of the Northeastern United States Evaluated with a 40-Year Resampling Study - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Lead (Pb) is a toxic metal that was dispersed by humans worldwide largely through Pb gasoline combustion. Regional scale long-term datasets detecting changes and processes governing pollutant Pb pools...
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Soil biology students, My Canadian colleague Erin Cameron is looking for a postdoc investigating global change impacts on soil biodiversity sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...). At Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Conservation and Soil Ecology Lab (www.erincameronlab.com)
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Wild Paledualf here in Central Virginia! The soil was terraced for agriculture by enslaved individuals in the late 1700s. The dipping red Bt and yellow BC follows the original topography while the new Ochric epipedon follows the new leveled surface. #soil #legacyeffects
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Dr. Justin Mathias at WVU is looking for a postdoc! Flexible topic focused on wildfire impact forest carbon or nitrogen cycling. Dr. Mathias is awesome! See details here: wvu.taleo.net/careersectio...
wvu.taleo.net
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Department of Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Charley Kelly at West Virginia University is looking for a soil science PhD student! Morgantown is a pretty cool college town to be in, a gem of the mountains! www.davis.wvu.edu/faculty-staf...
davis.wvu.edu
Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources | Kelly, Charlene
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Massachusetts geological survey is looking for a forest soil postdoc! You'll be working with the awesome @brian-yellen.bsky.social websites.umass.edu/byellen/fore...
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Forest Soils Postdoc | Forest Soils Postdoc – Brian Yellen – UMass Amherst
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great news with SSSA on the election results, thank you everyone for voting! I look forward to serving as the Forest, range, and wildlands division chair elect :) www.sciencesocieties.org/publications...
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Two more days left for Soil Science Society of America elections! Don't forget to vote! www.soils.org/elections If you're in the forest, range, and wildlands division, vote for me :)
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Annual Elections | Soil Science Society of Americasearchsearch
Open Call: Seeking Candidates for the 2025 SSSA Election
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Resolution of the University of Virginia #UVA Faculty Senate in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-u...
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What happens when lithium batteries ignite a fire in a scrap metal yard? Not looking good for the local community but there are steps to help reduce exposure! whyy.org/articles/emr...
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‘It’s hellish now’: EMR fire leaves Camden residents worried about health
Neighbors reported difficulty breathing, headaches and lingering odors in the aftermath of the massive blaze.
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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
With some much terrible news, I want to share something positive. This is a spodosol my students made for our soils class back @dartmouthears.bsky.social featuring O-reo horizon, whipped cream E horizon, pudding Bhs and B horizon, and graham cracker glacial till.
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For those you didn't see, PhD student Alexandrea Rice published her first study from her work in New Hampshire and Vermont in Geoderma! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Justin Richardson @soilbiogeochemist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Great to be here and share soil and biogeochemistry related things! #soil #biogeochemistry #not_on_X
Spodosol soil profile in New Hampshire
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