Welcome to the UCR Soil Biogeochemistry Group
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We are soil loving, passionate scientists who use a wide range of cutting-edge tools to better understand the chemical, biological and physical processes controlling fate and transport of metals and carbon dynamics in soils and sediments. Soil is a vital resource to humans serving many functions ranging from food production to carbon storage. Our research includes examining metal and metalloid contamination of urban soils and groundwater, interactions between carbon and metals in arid soils and its impact on the global carbon budget, and microbially-mediated soil redox processes. 

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Wine and EANABS tasting Summer 2019
Back row left to right: Brian Aiken, Tommy Haensel, Sam, Mike Schaefer, Abdi Garniwan, Macon Abernathy, Wen Zhuang
Front row left to right: Claudia Avila, Danielle Stevenson, Miranda Aiken

Laguna Beach Group Outing with friends and family (2017)
Left to right: Claudia Avila, Adolfo Avila, MJ Plaganas, Kevin Martinez, Waiwai Ying, Sam Ying, Weiwei Cong and family, Alex Frie, Sara Vliet (Volz Lab UCR), Lucas Sartor (Visiting Scholar ​Universidade de São Paulo)

Halloween 2015
From left to right: (back) Mariejo Plaganas (Black cat), Amy Salvador (Darth Maul), Sam Ying (Rainbow Brite), Alex Frie (graduate student), Andrew Tran (undergraduate student), Kevin Martinez (undergraduate student),
(front) Shima Sahebjami (Super Girl), Rebecca Mock (Dead bride), Claudia (Marin) Avila (Rosie the Riveter)