Topics
- Applied Mathematics
- Arts and Culture
- Bioengineering
- Cognitive Science
- Computing Sensing Gaming and Robotics
- Earth and Environment
- Economy and Markets
- Evolution and Genomics
- Human Health
- Immigration
- Law and Politics
- Math and Science Education
- Physics
- Spanish and Latino Studies
- Stem Cells
- Water Resources
Associated Resources
- Sustainability (Resource List)
- Global Climate Change (Resource List)
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
School of Natural Sciences
Primary contact information
- Email: aaberhe@ucmerced.edu
- Address:
- 5200 N. Lake Rd.
- Merced, CA 95343
Secondary contact information
- Name: Donna Birch Trahan
- Title: Public Information Representative
- Email: dbirchtrahan@ucmerced.edu
- Primary Phone: (209) 228-4406
- Secondary Phone: (209) 205-8561
Associated Topics
Background
What happens to the soil as Earth’s climate changes? When you consider the potential effects on life – plants, microbes, animals and even humans – as nutrients and moisture in soils change, it’s a crucial question.
Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe studies how changing environmental conditions effect vital soil processes, especially how dynamics of essential nutrient cycles might be changing in what scientists have come to call the “critical zone” – near surface environment where important geological, biological, and chemical processes interact to sustain life on the surface of the earth.
She can comment on the role of human beings in changing soil quality (through changes in landuse or climate), how carbon is stored in soils, how armed conflicts lead to land degradation, and the relationship of national/group identity with property relations that govern land ownership and control.
Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe studies how changing environmental conditions effect vital soil processes, especially how dynamics of essential nutrient cycles might be changing in what scientists have come to call the “critical zone” – near surface environment where important geological, biological, and chemical processes interact to sustain life on the surface of the earth.
She can comment on the role of human beings in changing soil quality (through changes in landuse or climate), how carbon is stored in soils, how armed conflicts lead to land degradation, and the relationship of national/group identity with property relations that govern land ownership and control.