Curriculum Vitae. Charlotte Decock

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1 Curriculum Vitae Charlotte Decock Nationality Belgian Date of Birth 20 th April 1984 Marital Status Married Work Sustainable Agroecosystems Group D-USYS, ETH-Zurich Tannenstrasse 1, TAN F3 CH-8092, Zurich Home Im Meyerhof 3 CH-5620, Bremgarten Education 2012 Ph.D., Soils and Biogeochemistry, University of California, Davis, CA. Thesis title: Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture in a Changing Global Environment: Responses, Sources, and Methods M.Sc., Bioscience-engineering, Ghent University, Belgium. Thesis title: Determination of Substrate Quality Effects on Microbial-Derived Soil Organic Matter Using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis 2005 B.Sc., Bioscience-Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium. Research Experience 2013-present Post-doctoral researcher ETH-Zurich Post-doctoral researcher University of California, Davis Graduate Student Researcher University of California, Davis Graduate Student Researcher Ghent University, Belgium Current and completed projects An integrated experiment-model approach to elucidate plant-soil interactions and N transformation in aggregated soils. J. Six and F. Conen. Funded for CHF through Swiss National Foundation. Role: Funded researcher BasmaSus: How to sustainably intensify organic Basmati rice production in Uttarakhand, India. C. Decock, J. Six and P. Tittonell. Funded for CHF through ETH World Food Systems Center Coop Research Program. Role: PI Rooting for a Sustainable Future: Can Crops with Greater Rooting Systems Improve Nitrogen Retention and Mitigate Emissions of Nitrous Oxide?. C. Decock, J. Six. Funded for CHF through the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center Plant Fellows Program. Role: Funded researcher Greenhouse gas emissions from paddy rice soils under alternative irrigation management. S. Sleutel, L. Celi, J. Six, C. Li. Funded for CHF through the Joint Research Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change FACCE-JPI. Role: Supervisor Charlotte Decock, Ph.D. -1-

2 Meta-analysis of N 2 O emissions associated with N fertilizer use in Corn-Corn and Corn-Soybean Cropping Systems, funded by the International Plant Nutrition Institute. Role: Funded researcher Nitrogen Management Project Protocol, technical advice and consulting for Terra Global Capital and the Climate Action Reserve, California. Role: Funded consultant Teaching experience ETH Zurich Main instructor Agroecologists Without Borders Guest lecturer Isotope Ecology Course Guest lecture Agroecosystems I UC Davis Teaching assistant Agriculture and Ecology Guest lecturer Japanese Agricultural Training Program, Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines Academic services 2010-present Reviewer for Global Change Biology, Applied Soil Ecology, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Plant and Soil, Ecosphere, Pedosphere, European Journal of Soil Science, Journal of Soils and Sediments, Nature Scientific Reports, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, Plos One, Netherlands National Science Foundation (NWO) Scientific peer-review of beta metrics for on-farm sustainability, commissioned by the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis and the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops Student reviewer of graduate student admissions, UC Davis. Mentoring and supervising experience Postdocs Monojit Chakraborty Ph.D. Elizabeth Verhoeven (ETH Zurich), Abmael Cardoso (visiting scholar UNESP- Jaboticabal) M.Sc. Christopher Mitika (UZH), Taryn Kennedy (UC Davis) Awards and Fellowships 2014 World Food System Center Ambassador fund; World Food System Center Travel Fund 2013 Plant Fellows Fellowship, International Post doc Fellowship Programme in Plant Sciences, managed by the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center Ernest E. Hill Fellowship, University of California Davis, Davis, CA Jastrow Shields Graduate Student Research Scholarship Award. Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA Block Grant Award, Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA Graduate Student Association Travel Award, University of California, Davis, CA. Charlotte Decock, Ph.D. -2-

3 Graduate Student Researcher Scholarship, Stable Isotope Facility, University of California, Davis, CA Academic Aid Package, Soils Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA. Participation in workshops and training Supervising students dealing with roles and relationships ( ) A learner-centred approach to course design and lesson planning ( and ) Professional conduct: Embedding ethical appraisal in your research ( ) Professional conduct: data management ( ) Leadership training ( ) Understanding Entrepreneurship ( ) Career management for Postdoctoral fellows ( ) Training in Advanced Funding Strategies ( ) Publications Peer-reviewed articles Decock, C., Lee, J., Necpalova, M., Pereira, E.I.P., Tendall, D.M., Six, J., Mitigating N 2 O emissions from soil: from patching leaks to transformative action. SOIL 1, Wolf, B., Merbold, L., Decock, C., Tuzson, B., Harris, E., Six, J., Emmenegger, L., Mohn, J., First on-line isotopic characterization of N 2 O above intensively managed grassland. Biogeosciences 12, Decock, C. (2014) Mitigating Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Corn Cropping Systems in the Midwestern U.S.: Potential and Data Gaps. Environmental Science & Technology 48: Decock, C. and Six, J. (2013) On the potential of 18 O and 15 N to assess N 2 O reduction to N 2 in soil. European Journal of Soil Science 64: Kennedy, T.; Decock, C. and Six, J. (2013) Assessing drivers of N 2 O production in California tomato cropping systems. Science of the Total Environment 465: Decock, C., Six, J. (2013) How reliable is the intramolecular distribution of 15 N in N 2 O to source partition N 2 O emitted from soil? Soil Biology & Biochemistry 65: Decock, C. and J. Six (2013) An assessment of N-cycling and sources of N 2 O during a simulated rain event using natural abundance 15 N. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 165: Decock, C.; Chung, H.; Venterea, R.: Gray, S.B.; Leakey, D.B.; Six, J (2012) Elevated CO 2 and O 3 modify N turnover rates, but not N 2 O emissions in a soybean agroecosystem, Soil Biology & Biochemistry 51: Decock, C and Six, J. (2012) Effects of elevated CO 2 and O 3 on N-cycling and N 2 O emissions: a short-term laboratory assessment. Plant and Soil 351: Decock, C.; Denef, K.; Bode, S.; Six, J. and Boeckx, P. (2009) Critical assessment of the applicability of gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry to determine amino sugar dynamics in soil. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry Other relevant publications C. Decock, M. Chakraborty Sustainable intensification of organic Basmati rice production in Uttarakhand, India: a multidisciplinary systems approach. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Agriculture and Food Security Network Newsletter. May Charlotte Decock, Ph.D. -3-

4 Security/news/Documents/2015_05_rice_decock_chakraborty.pdf C. Decock, K. Butterbach-Bahl, H. Lambers, and J. Six Virtual Issue No. 6: Closing knowledge-gaps for quantifying, predicting and mitigating nitrous oxide emissions. Plant and Soil, IPNI (2012) Assessing effects of agricultural management on N 2 O emissions from corn cropping systems in the USA and Canada. Decock, C. and Johan, S. 3C2?opendocument Climate Action Reserve (2012) Nitrogen Management Project Protocol Version Abstracts for scientific conferences Barthel, M.; Decock, C.; Wilde, B.; Mikita, C.; Mohn, J.; Six, J. On-line assessment of 15 N, 15 N and 18 O of soil-derived N 2 O using quantum cascade laser spectroscopy. Gas flux measurements in terrestrial ecosystems - state of the art and emerging technologies An open workshop on trace gas flux measurements. University of Gothenburg, (10.) May 2015 Decock, C; Verhoeven, E.; Pereira, E.; Garland, G.; Kennedy, T.; Suddick, E.; Burger, M.; Horwath, W.; Six, J. Understanding farm level N 2 O emissions in California Systems. Climate Smart Agriculture Global Science Conference, Montpellier, March Verhoeven, E.; Pereira, E.; Decock, C.; Suddick, E.; Angst, T.; Six, J. Potential for biochar to mitigate N 2 O emissions is reduced at the field scale and in upland cropping systems. Climate Smart Agriculture Global Science Conference, Montpellier, March Decock, C.; Bhattacharya, S.; Singh, D.K.; Six, J. Smallholder cultivation of organic Basmati rice in Uttarakhand, India: Exploring synergies between productivity and greenhouse gas mitigation. International Workshop on Biogeochemistry of submerged agro-ecosystems: Properties, processes, cycles and functions'. Freising, Germany, September 21-25, Verhoeven, E.; Decock, C.; Six, J. Depth differentiated denitrification in continuously and intermittently flooded rice systems. International Workshop on Biogeochemistry of submerged agro-ecosystems: Properties, processes, cycles and functions'. Freising, Germany, September 21-25, Decock, C.,: Six, J. Can the intramolecular distribution of 15 N in N 2 O be used to source partition N 2 O emitted from soil. EGU, Vienna, Austria, April Decock, C. Mitigating Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Corn Cropping Systems in the Midwestern USA Potential and Data Gaps. Workshop GRA - JPI FACCE, Paris, France, March Decock, C; Six, J. Assessing the potential of natural abundance 15 N to assess in situ N transformation rates and sources of N 2 O. Open Science Conference on greenhouse gas management in European land use systems, Antwerp, Belgium, September Decock, C.; Chung, H; Venterea, R.; Leakey, A.D.B.; Six, J. Elevated CO 2 and O 3 modify N turnover rates, but not N 2 O emissions. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2011 Decock, C.; Six, J. How can stable isotopes improve our understanding of N 2 O and other gaseous N losses from soil? A case study in a soybean agroecosystem exposed to elevated CO 2 and O 3. Stable Isotope Facility Symposium, Davis, California, December 2010 Decock, C.; Six, J. Effects of elevated CO 2 and O 3 : By understanding soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, global climate change and future plant nitrogen availability feedbacks are predictable. Governors Global Climate Summit 3, Davis, California, November 2010 Decock, C.; Chung, H,; Venterea, R.; Six, J. The effect of elevated CO 2 and O 3 on soil nitrogen inputs and losses in a soybean agroecosystem in Illinois. ASA - CSSA SSSA international annual meeting, Long Beach, California, November 2010 Charlotte Decock, Ph.D. -4-

5 Decock, C.; Six, J. The effect of elevated CO 2 and O 3 on sources of N 2 O emissions in a soybean agroecosystem. ASA - CSSA SSSA international annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2009 Decock, C.; Six, J. The effect of elevated CO 2 and O 3 on sources of N 2 O emissions in a soybean agroecosystem. Graduate Student Symposium in Ecology, Davis, California, February 2009 Decock, C.; Denef, K.; Six, J.; Boeckx, P. Determination of substrate quality effects on microbialderived soil organic matter using compound-specific stable isotope analysis ASA CSSA SSSA international annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007 Decock, C.; Denef, K.; Boeckx, P. The effect of substrate quality on amino sugar turnover in soil Soil Science Society Belgium: Day of the Young Scientist, Brussels, Belgium, March 2007 Charlotte Decock, Ph.D. -5-