Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Professor Blair's research focuses on the behavior of carbon on the Earth's surface. The pathways of organic carbon decomposition and sequestration as mediated by biological and physical processes in soils and sediments. This information is integrated into a conceptual model that describes the transformations of organic carbon as it moves across landscapes and the seafloor. Human impacts on this lateral portion of the C-cycle are considered.
Education/Academic qualification
Organic Chemistry, PhD, Stanford University
… → 1980
Chemistry, BS, University of Maryland
… → 1975
Research interests
- Biogeochemical transformations of carbon
- Macromolecular organic matter
- Organic matter in surficial environments
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Grants
Critical Zone Observatory Network for Intensively Managed Landscapes
Blair, N. E. & Jacobson, A. D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Science Foundation
12/1/13 → 11/30/20
Project: Research project
Subproject for Critical Zone Observatory Network for Intensively Managed Landscapes SP0023115
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Science Foundation
12/1/13 → 11/30/20
Project: Research project
Post-Expedition Subproject for Institution # SP0024434
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, National Science Foundation
5/29/13 → 1/30/15
Project: Research project
Expedition 341 South Alaska Margin, USSSP Support
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, National Science Foundation
5/29/13 → 1/30/15
Project: Research project
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for David Vinson: Host Institutional Allowance Request
4/1/13 → 8/31/16
Project: Research project
Research Output
Fate of Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin Rivers Sediments in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal
Liu, J. P., Kuehl, S. A., Pierce, A. C., Williams, J., Blair, N. E., Harris, C., Aung, D. W. & Aye, Y. Y., May 2020, In : Marine Geology. 423, 106137.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Carbon mass balance, isotopic tracers of biogenic methane, and therole of acetate in coal beds: Powder River Basin (USA)
Vinson, D. S., Blair, N. E., Ritter, D. J., Martini, A. M. & McIntosh, J. C., Dec 30 2019, In : Chemical Geology. 530, 119329.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Centers of organic carbon burial and oxidation at the land-ocean interface
Bianchi, T. S., Cui, X., Blair, N. E., Burdige, D. J., Eglinton, T. I. & Galy, V., Jan 1 2018, In : Organic Geochemistry. 115, p. 138-155 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
23
Scopus
citations
Critical transition in critical zone of intensively managed landscapes
Kumar, P., Le, P. V. V., Papanicolaou, A. N. T., Rhoads, B. L., Anders, A. M., Stumpf, A., Wilson, C. G., Bettis, E. A., Blair, N., Ward, A. S., Filley, T., Lin, H., Keefer, L., Keefer, D. A., Lin, Y. F., Muste, M., Royer, T. V., Foufoula-Georgiou, E. & Belmont, P., Jun 2018, In : Anthropocene. 22, p. 10-19 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
8
Scopus
citations
The C-biogeochemistry of a Midwestern USA agricultural impoundment in context: Lake Decatur in the intensively managed landscape critical zone observatory
Blair, N. E., Leithold, E. L., Thanos Papanicolaou, A. N., Wilson, C. G., Keefer, L., Kirton, E., Vinson, D., Schnoebelen, D., Rhoads, B., Yu, M. & Lewis, Q., Apr 1 2018, In : Biogeochemistry. 138, 2, p. 171-195 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
3
Scopus
citations