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2312 GEOLOGY BUILDING
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Graham, Robert C

Professor of Soil Mineralogy & Soil Mineralogist

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Environmental Science


Biography

 

Degrees

PhD Soil Science 1986

NC State University

MS Soils and Biometerology 1982

Utah State University

BS Soil and Water Science 1976

UC Davis

Awards

Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, UCR - 2006
Fellow, Soil Science Society of America - 2002
Outstanding Publication of the Year, USDA-Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station - 1995
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, UCR - 1995


Research Area

Weathering and behavior of soil minerals; natural soil processes; soils and weathered bedrock in wildland ecosystems; soil geomorphology

Publications

Rose, K.L., R.C. Graham, and D.R. Parker. 2003. Water source utilization by Pinus jeffreyi and Arctostaphylos patula on thin soils over bedrock. Oecologia 134: 46-54.

Hamer, M., R.C. Graham, C. Amrhein, and K.N. Bozhilov. 2003. Dissolution of ripidolite (Mg, Fe-chlorite) in organic and inorganic acid solutions. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:654-661.

Lee, B.D., S.K. Sears, R.C. Graham, C. Amrhein, and H. Vali. 2003. Secondary mineral genesis from chlorite and serpentine in an ultramafic soil toposequence. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:1309-1317.

Wood, Y.A., R.C. Graham, and S.G. Wells. 2005. Surface control of desert pavement pedologic process and landscape function, Cima Volcanic Field, Mojave Desert, California. Catena 59:205-230.

Bornyasz, M.A., R.C. Graham, and M.F. Allen. 2005. Ectomycorrhizae in a soil-weathered granitic bedrock regolith: linking matrix resources to plants. Geoderma 126:141-160.

Johnson-Maynard, J.L., R.C. Graham, P.J. Shouse, and S.A. Quideau. 2005. Base cation and silicon biogeochemistry under pine and scrub oak monocultures: Implications for weathering rates. Geoderma 126:353-365.

Quideau, S.A., R.C. Graham, S-W. Oh, P.F. Hendrix, and R.E. Wasylishen. 2005. Foliage decomposition in a chaparral ecosystem, southern California. Soil Biol. Biochem. 37:1988-1998.

Goforth, B.R., R.C. Graham, K.R. Hubbert, C.W. Zanner, R.A. Minnich. 2005. Spatial distribution and properties of wood-ash and thermally altered soils after high-severity forest fire, southern California. Int. J. Wildland Fire. 14:343-354.

Enloe, H.A., R.C. Graham, and S.C. Sillett. 2006. Arboreal Histosols in old-growth redwood forest canopies, northern California. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. 70:408-418. 2074.

Graham, R.C., D.R. Hirmas, Y.A. Wood, and C. Amrhein. 2008. Large near-surface nitrate pools in soils capped by desert pavement in the Mojave Desert, California. Geology 36:259-262.