Mark P Waldrop, Ph.D.
Mark's research expertise is in soil microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in response to global change phenomenon. He leads a team focused on studies of microbial, chemical, and biophysical controls on carbon cycling in permafrost, boreal, and wetland ecosystems of Alaska as well as forest and grassland ecosystems of the Western U.S.
Synergistic Activities
USGS Menlo Park Science Advisory Council Member
US Permafrost Association President
Affiliate/Graduate Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks & University of Guelph
Bonanza Creek LTER and Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX), Principal Investigator
International Soil Carbon Network (NSCN) member
Integrated Ecosystem Model data contributor, AK Climate Science Center
Permafrost Research Coordination Network contributor
Environmental Microbiome Project (EMP) member
North American Carbon Program (NACP), affiliated project lead
Professional Experience
2013- current Project Chief, Mechanisms of Soil Carbon Sequestration
2007- current Research Soil Scientist, USGS, Menlo Park, CA.
2005-2007 Mendenhall Research Fellow, USGS, Menlo Park, CA.
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Michigan
Education and Certifications
2002-University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., Soil Science
1997-University of California at Berkeley, M.S., Soil Science
1995-New Mexico State Univ, B.S. Biology/Ecology, and B.S. Soil Science
Science and Products
Below are Mark's related science projects
Below are Mark's related publication
Warming effects of spring rainfall increase methane emissions from thawing permafrost
Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit
Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen release from boreal Holocene permafrost and seasonally frozen soils of Alaska
Soil microbial community composition is correlated to soil carbon processing along a boreal wetland formation gradient
Microbial survival strategies in ancient permafrost: insights from metagenomics
The interacting roles of climate, soils, and plant production on soil microbial communities at a continental scale
Grand challenges for integrated USGS science — A workshop report
A decade of boreal rich fen greenhouse gas fluxes in response to natural and experimental water table variability
Soil data for a thermokarst bog and the surrounding permafrost plateau forest, located at Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Site, Interior Alaska
Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils
Differential response of carbon fluxes to climate in three peatland ecosystems that vary in the presence and stability of permafrost
Seasonal electrical resistivity surveys of a coastal bluff, Barter Island, North Slope Alaska
Science and Products
Below are Mark's related science projects
Below are Mark's related publication