Entries for PhD Chengrong Chen

Academic degree:

PhD

Last name:

Chen

First name:

Chengrong

Responsible for:

Soils, Section 2: Global change and environmental risk assessment

Organization/Institute:

Griffith University

Department:

Centre for Forestry and Horticultural Research

Position:

Australian School of Environmental Studies

Street, Number, POB:

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Postal code, City:

4111 Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland

State:

Country:

Australia

Phone:

+61-7-37357494

Fax:

+61-7-37357459

E-mail address:

c.chen@griffith.edu.au

Url:

http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cfhr

Curriculum vitae:

Subject editor (Soil, Section 2)

Curriculum Vitae (short)

CURRENT POSITION (2005):

- Research Fellow, Microbial Ecology, Forest Soil and Ecosystem Management, Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Nutrient cycling and soil fertility in terrestrial ecosystems.
- Rhizosphere dynamics of organic matter and associated nutrients in forest ecosystems.
- Use of isotope 33P, 15N and 13C and NMR (13C & 31P) in characterization of soil nutrient availability, nature & dynamics.
-Application of Biolog, biomarker and DNA-based molecular approaches to determine microbial diversity and function.
- Impacts of global climate change on soil microbial processes.
- Agricultural disposal of recycled organics.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- June 1983: B.Sc. in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Fujian Agricultural University, Fuzhou, P.R. China

- October 1997: M.Sc. in Biological Sciences, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand.

- January 2001: PhD in Soil Science, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand

Areas of interest:

Soil microbiology

soil chemistry

Articles:

8 JSS (5) 349-358 (2008), Microbial composition and diversity of an upland red soil under long-term fertilization treatments as revealed by culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches – [Full paper at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/112850]
8 JSS (2) 99-105 (2008), Soil Carbon and Nutrient Pools, Microbial Properties and Gross Nitrogen Transformations in Adjacent Natural Forest and Hoop Pine Plantations of Subtropical Australia (7 pp)
6 JSS (4) 192-199 (2006), Subject Area ´Soils´: The (Associate) Subject Editors and Advisors: Challenges and relevant literature in JSS and ESPR (the presentation of the Editors is not complete yet and will be continued)
13 ESPR (5) 293-298 (2006), Fingerprinting Global Climate Change and Forest Management Within Rhizosphere Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Processes
6 JSS (2) 63-66 (2006), On the Nature and Ecological Functions of Soil Soluble Organic Nitrogen (SON) in Forest Ecosystems

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