Jack McFarland, PhD

U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road, M.S. 962
Menlo Park, CA 94025

office: 650-329-5241
lab: 650-329-4503

jmcfarland AT usgs.gov
http://www.microbeproject.gov

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Jack completed his PhD on floodplain nitrogen cycling with Roger Ruess in May of 2008. He then worked as a postdoc on ectomycorrhizal partner choice in alder in a collaborative project between the Taylor, Ruess and Kielland labs. He has now moved on to a postdoctoral position on carbon cycling at the USGS with Mark Waldrop.

EDUCATION

BIOGRAPHY

McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, K.S. Pregitzer, R. Hendrick and M. Allen. 2010. Cross-ecosystem comparisons of in situ plant uptake of amino acid-N and NH4+. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9309-6

McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, R. Hendrick, and K.S. Pregitzer. In situ glycine mineralization is closely associated to soil carbon availability across six North American forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry (in press).

Geml J, Laursen GA, Timling I, McFarland J, Booth MG, Lennon N, Nusbaum HC, Taylor DL. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic biodiversity assessment of arctic and boreal ectomycorrhizal Lactarius Pers. (Russulales; Basidiomycota) in Alaska, based on soil and sporocarp DNA. Molecular Ecology 18: 2213–2227.

Taylor DL, Booth MG, McFarland JW, Herriott IC, Lennon NJ, Nusbaum C & Marr TG.  2008.  Increasing ecological inference from high throughput sequencing of fungi in the environment through a tagging approach.  Molecular Ecology Resources 8(4): 742 - 752.  Supplemental Material - Table S1.

McFarland. J.M., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland , and A. Doyle. 2002. Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid N in soils of a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem. Ecosystems 5: 775-788.