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My research integrates microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, with a current focus on nitrogen cycling in estuarine and marine environments. I use molecular techniques to unravel the microbial diversity driving biogeochemical processes. This complements my work measuring actual process rates and how switching among biogeochemical pathways is influenced by environmental factors. What I find most exciting are interactions among ecological, geochemical, and microbial controls of elemental cycles.
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Dr. Rich's research examines microbial communities and biogeochemical processes in terrestrial and aquatic environments, and specifically the microbial factors that influence nitrogen availability. His current position is Assistant Professor, Research in the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University. His research group focuses on microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with current projects investigating anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) and denitrification in estuarine and marine ecosystems. He teaches a course in Microbial Diversity and the Environment at Brown University. Dr. Rich received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. David Myrold at Oregon State University in 2003. During his dissertation research, Dr. Rich investigated relationships between denitrifying bacterial community composition and the process of denitrification in soils using molecular techniques. During his postdoctoral work at Princeton University with Prof. Bess Ward, Dr. Rich employed 15N stable isotope techniques to quantify a newly discovered process in marine environments referred to as anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), which can serve as an alternative mechanism to conventional denitrification. Dr. Rich grew up in Wisconsin and received a B.S. in Natural Science from UW-Madison in 1996.
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