Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
B.A. Oberlin College
Areas of Expertise
Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Ecology, Global change, Stable isotopes
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Krichels AH, Vulcan A, Driscoll KP. 2026. Varying effects of stream restoration
on riparian soil carbon persistence and methane emissions in the southern
Rocky Mountains, USA. Restoration Ecology
Krichels AH, Stephens EZ, Reid C, Barriga MFP, Ordoñez ME, McLaren JR,
Kargul M, Larios L, Glassman SI, Homyak PM. 2025. Wildfire-induced
losses of particulate organic carbon persist for over 4 years in a chaparral
ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 31, e70404.
Krichels AH, Sanford RA, Chee-Sanford JC, Connor L, Van Allen R, Kent
AD, Yang WH. 2025. Distinct N cycling microbial communities contribute
to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions. Soil Biology and
Biochemistry, 202, 109683.
Krichels AH, Homyak PM, Aronson EL, Sickman J, Botthoff J, Greene AC,
Shulman H, Piper S, Andrews H, Jenerette GD. 2023. Bacterial denitrification drives elevated N2O emissions in arid southern California drylands. Science Advances, 9, eadj1989.
Krichels AH, Greene AC, Jenerette GD, Spasojevic MJ, Glassman SI,
Homyak PM. 2022. Precipitation legacies amplify ecosystem nitrogen losses from nitric oxide emissions in a Pinyon-Juniper dryland. Ecology, 104, 1-9.
