Chien-Lu Ping

Professor of Soil Science, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA

Organisation: University of Alaska Fairbanks Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station

Education:

• Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan 1965 B.S. Agriculture Chemistry
• Washington State University 1972 M.S. Soils
• Washington State University 1976 Ph.D. Soils

Selected Activities:

• Executive Secretary, International Permafrost Association Cryosol Working Group, 1993-1998
• Coordinator, Joint US-Russia Seminar on Cryopedology and Global Change, Moscow, 1992
• Coordinator, US-Russian exchange in Cryosol study, NE Russia-Alaska, 1992; 1994
• Coordinator, Joint international Cryosol study in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China, 1999; 2000
• Visiting Professor to National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, Feb.-June, 2000
• Visiting Senior Scholar to the Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, June- Sept. 2000

Experience:

• 1977-1982 Natural Resource Scientist II, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, WA
• 1982-1989 Assistant Professor of Agronomy, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
• 1989-93 Associate Professor of Soil Science, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
• 1993-present Professor of Soil Science, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
  

Selected publications:

• Dai, X.Y., C.L. Ping and G.J. Michaelson. 2002. Characterization of soil organic matter in arctic tundra soils by different analytical approaches. Organic Geochem. (in press)
• Dai, X.Y., C.L. Ping, M. E. Hines, X.D. Zhang, and W. Zech. 2002. Amino sugars in Arctic soils. Comm. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 33(5&6): 000-000.
• Dai X.Y., D. White, and C.L. Ping. 2002. Evaluation of soil organic matter composition and bioavailability by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. J. Anal. Appl. Pyroly. 62:249-258.
• Dai X.Y., C.L. Ping, R. Candler, L. Haumaier and W. Zech. 2001. Characterization of Soil Organic Matter Fractions of Tundra Soils in Arctic Alaska. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 65:87-93.
• Dai, X.D., C.L. Ping, and G.J. Michaelson.2000. Bioavailability of organic matter in tundra soils. p.29-38. In R.Lal, J.M. Kimble, C. Tarnocai, and H. Eswaran (eds.) Global environmental change and soils of the cold ecoregions. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.
• Hoefle, C.M., and C.L. Ping. 1996. Properties and soil development of late-Pleistocene paleosols from Seward Peninsula, northwest Alaska. Geoderma, 71:219-243.
• Michaelson, G.J., C.L. Ping, X.Y. Dai. 2002. Soil organic carbon and low-temperature respiration of carbon dioxide from soil associated with ATLAS Winter Flux sites, Alaska.J. Geophy. Res. (in press)
• Michaelson, G.J., C.L. Ping and J.M. Kimble. 2001. Effects of soil morphological and physical properties on estimation of carbon storage in arctic soils. p.339-347. In R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett and B.A. Stewart (eds.) Assessment methods for soil carbon. Lewis Publishers.
• Michaelson, G.J., C.L. Ping, G.W. Kling, and J.E. Hobbie. 1998. The character and bioactivity of dissolved organic matter at thaw and in the spring runoff waters of the arctic tundra north slope, Alaska. J. Geophy. Res.103(D22):28,939-28,946.
• Michaelson, G.J., C.L. Ping and J.M. Kimble. 1996. Carbon storage and distribution in tundra soils of Arctic Alaska, USA. Arctic Alp. Res.28:414-424.
• Ping, C.L. G.J. Michaelson, J.M. Kimble, and L. Everett. 2002. Soil organic carbon stores in Alaska. p.485-494. In R. Lal, J. Kimble, and R. Follet (eds.) Agricultural practices and policies of carbon sequestration in soils. CRC Press.
• Ping, C.L., G.J. Michaelson, X.Y. Dai, and R.J. Candler. 2001. Characterization of soil organic matter. p. 273-283. In R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett and B. Stewart (eds.) Assessment methods for soil carbon. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.
• Ping, C.L. 2000. Volcanic soils. p. 1259-1270. In H. Sigudsson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Academic Press, San Diego. CA.
• Ping, C.L., J.G. Bockheim, J.M. Kimble, G.J. Michaelson, and D.A. Walker. 1998 Characteristics of cryogenic soils along a latitudinal transect in arctic Alaska. J. Geophy.Res. 103:28,917-28,928.
• Ping, C.L., G.J. Michaelson, and J.M. Kimble. 1997. Carbon storage along a latitudinal transact in Alaska. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 49:235-242.
• Ping, C.L., G.J. Michaelson, W.M. Loya, R.J. Candler, and R.L. Malcolm. 1997. Characteristics of soil organic matter in Arctic ecosystems of Alaska. p. 157-167. In R. Lal and J.M. Kimble and B.A. Stewart (eds.) Carbon sequestration in soils. CRC Lewis Publishers. Chelsea, MI.
• Ping, C.L., G.J. Michaelson and A. Cherkinsky. 1997. Characterization of soil organic matter by stable isotopes and radiocarbon ages of selected soils in Arctic Alaska. p.475-480. In J. Drozd, S.S. Gonet, N. Senesi, and J. Weber (eds.) The role of humic substances in the ecosystem and in environmental protection. Polish Society of Humic Substances, Wroclaw, Poland.

CONTACTS

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