Stephanie A. Ewing
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management; M.S. 2000, University of California, Davis, Soil Science; B.A. 1989, Oberlin College. Soils in the Earth system; global biogeochemical cycles as revealed by variation of soil processes at the landscape scale, including atmospheric deposition to soils, disturbance gradients, and the contribution of weathering processes to surface water chemistry in small catchments. Exploitation of novel isotopic tools to address interesting questions in these areas.
Recent publications:
- Ewing, S. A., Paces, J. B., O'Donnell, J. A., Kanevskiy, M. Z., Shur, Y., Jorgenson, M. T., Aiken, G. R.,
and Striegl, R. (in review), Uranium isotopes in loess permafrost: modeling the age of ancient ice.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. - Stoy, P. C., Johnson, A., Prieto-Blanco, A. and Ewing, S. (Accepted June 2012) Temperature, heat flux,
and reflectance of common subarctic mosses and lichens under field conditions: Might changes to
community composition impact climate-relevant surface fluxes? Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. - Koch, J. C, Ewing, S. A., Striegl, R., and McKnight, D. M. (Accepted June 2012) Rapid runoff via
shallow throughflow and deeper pipe flow in a boreal catchment underlain by frozen silt.
Hydrogeology Journal. - Amundson, R., Barnes, J.D., Ewing, S., Heimsath, A., Chong, G. (2012). The Stable Isotope Composition
of Halite and Sulfate of Hyperarid Soils and Its Relation to Aqueous Transport. Geochimica et
Cosmochimina Acta doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.044. - Amundson, R., Dietrich, W., Bellugi, D., Ewing, S., Nishiizumi, K., Chong, G., Owen, J., Finkel, R.,
Heimsath, A., Stewart, B., Caffee, M. (2012). Geomorphic evidence for the late Pliocene onset of
hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert. GSA Bulletin doi: 10.1130/B30445.1.
- Ewing, S. A., Christensen, J. N., Brown, S. T., Cliff, S. S., VanCuren, R. A., and DePaolo, D. J. The impact of Asian air pollution on air quality in California. Environmental Science and Technology.
- Ewing, S. A. and Singer, M. J. (expected 2010). Soil Quality. In: (G. Levy, ed.) Handbook of Soils (2nd Edition). CRC Press.
- Amundson, R., Ewing, S., Dietrich, W., Sutter, B., Owen, J., Chadwick, O., Nishiizumi, K., Walvoord, M., McKay, C. (2008), On the in situ aqueous alteration of soils on Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 3845-3864, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.04.038.
- Ewing, S. A., Macalady, J. L., Warren-Rhodes, K., McKay, C. P., and Amundson, R. (2008) Changes in the soil C cycle at the arid-hyperarid transition in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 113, G02S90, doi:10.1029/2007JG000495.
- Ewing, S. A., Yang, W., DePaolo, D. J., Michalski, G., Kendall, C., Stewart, B., Thiemans, M., and Amundson, R. (2008), Non-biological fractionation of Ca isotopes in soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 1096–1110, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.10.029.
- Ewing, S. A., Michalski, G., Thiemens, M., Quinn, R., Macalady, J., Kohl, S., Wankel, S. D., Kendall, C., McKay, C. P., and Amundson, R. (2007), Rainfall limit of the N cycle on Earth. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 21, GB3009, doi: 10.1029/2006GB002838.
- Ewing, S. A., Southard, R. J., Macalady, J. L., Hartshorn, A. S., and Johnson, M. J. (2007), Soil microbial fingerprints, carbon, and nitrogen in a Mojave Desert creosote bush ecosystem. Soil Science Society of America Journal 71, 469-475, doi: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0283.
- Ewing, S. A., Sutter, B., Amundson, R., Owen, J., Nishiizumi, K., Sharp, W., Cliff, S. S., Perry, K., Dietrich, W. E. and McKay, C. P. (2006), A threshold in soil formation at Earth’s arid-hyperarid transition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70(21), 5293-5322, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2006.08.020.
- Ewing, S. A., Sanderman, J., Baisden, W. T., Wang, Y., and Amundson, R. (2006), The role of large scale soil structure in organic carbon turnover rates. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 111(G3), G03012, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000174.
- Warren-Rhodes, K., Rhodes, K. L., Pointing, S. B., Ewing, S., Lacap, D. C., Gómez-Silva, B., Amundson, R., Friedmann, E. I., McKay, C. P. (2006), The influence of water availability on cyanobacterial community ecology and the dry limit to photosynthetic life in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Microbial Ecology 52 (3), 389-398, doi: 10.1007/s00248-006-9055-7.
Current Instructional Responsibilities:
- Isotope Biogeochemistry (LRES 558)
- Landscape Pedology (ENSC 454)
