Paul Verburg

Associate Professor, Soil Science

Department: Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Office: 775-784-4019
Email: pverburg@unr.edu
Building: FA
Room: 129a
Mailstop: 186

Summary

I am a broadly trained soil scientist with an interest in applying fundamental knowledge about soils to assess effects of natural and anthropogenic perturbations such as climate change, acid rain and land management on terrestrial ecosystems. I have worked in a variety of ecosystems including boreal forest, tallgrass prairie, Mojave deserts, and Sierra Nevada forests. In my research I use a combination of field, laboratory and modeling approaches to obtain a better mechanistic understanding of how soils and ecosystems function and respond to external stressors.

Education

M.S. Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1992
Ph.D. Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1998

Publications

Fact Sheets

Reclaiming Water for Urban Foodsheds: State of Nevada Regulations and Permitting.

2020

Extension I University of Nevada, Reno, FS-20-11

Sterle, K., Ormerod, K.J., Singletary, L., Pagilla, K., Hanigan, D., Verburg, P. and Yang, Y.

The Reclaiming Water for Urban Foodsheds project integrates basic scientific research with Extension outreach to examine the feasibility of using reclaimed water resources for irrigated agriculture in...

Reclaiming Water for Urban Foodsheds: Program Overview

2019

Extension I University of Nevada, Reno, FS-19-08.

Pagilla, K., Hanigan, D., Yang, Y., Verburg, P., Sterle, K., and Singletary, L.

Reclaiming Water for Urban Foodsheds integrates basic scientific research with Extension outreach to examine the feasibility of using reclaimed water resources for irrigated agriculture in urban...

Journals

Immediate effects of burning sagebrush vegetation on soil nutrient dynamics and fertile islands in a cold desert ecosystem

2022

Journal of Arid Land Studies. 32 (2022) 76

C. Igono, W. Payne, R. Blank, P.S. Verburg, E. Nyakatawa

Modeling the fate of ionizable pharmaceutical and personal care products (iPPCPs) in soil-plant systems: pH and speciation

2022

Environmental Pollution Volume 315, 15 December 2022, 120367

A. Shahriar, D. Hanigan, P. Verburg, K. Pagilla, Y. u. Yang

Modeling the fate and human health impacts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in reclaimed wastewater irrigation for agriculture.

2021

Environmental Pollution Volume 276, 1 May 2021, 116532

Shahriar, A., Tan, J., Sharma, P., Hanigan, D., Verburg, P., Pagilla, K., & Yang, Y. u.

Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?

2021

Ecosystems, 24(5), 1125–1141

C.C. Reed, A G. Merrill, W. M. Drew, B. Christman, R. A. Hutchinson, L. Keszey, M. Odell,S. Swanson, P. S. J. Verburg, J. Wilcox, S.C. Hart, B. W. Sullivan

Predicting micro-catchment infiltration dynamics

2020

CATENA Volume 190, July 2020, 104524

Founds, M., McGwire, K., Weltz, M., Verburg, P. S.

Improving modeling of quinoa growth under saline conditions using enhanced Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender Model.

2019

Agronomy, 9(10), 592

Goehring, N., Saito, L., Jeong, J., Kiniry, J., Meki, N., Verburg, P. S.

Aerobic respiration of mineral-bound carbon in a soil.

2018

Science of the Total Environment, 651, 1253-1260

Adhikari, D., Dunham-Cheatham, S., Wordofa, D., Verburg, P. S., Poulson, S. R., Yang, Y.

Conversion of a Semi-Arid Nevada Soil to Irrigated Agriculture Preferentially Removes Labile Carbon.

2018

Soil Systems, 2(38)

Trimble, B., Calderon, F., Poulson, S., Verburg, P. S.

Determination of the Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Soil Carbon in Arid Soils

2018

Soil Science Society of America Journal Vol. 82 No. 1, p. 231-234

Ketchian E., Trimble B., Poulson S., Verburg P.S.J.

Microbial Transformation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1

2017

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2017, 51 (4), pp 2068–2076

You, Y., Das, K., Guo, H., Chang, C.-W., Navas-Moreno, M., Chan, J., Verburg, P. S., Poulson, S. R., Wang, X., Xing, B., Yang, Y.

Plant species effects on soil nutrients and chemistry in the Great Basin under recent and current climatic conditions.

2016

Oecologia, 182, 299-317

Johnson, B., Verburg, P. S., Arnone, J.

A synthesis of climate and vegetation cover effects on biogeochemical cycling in shrub-dominated drylands.

2014

Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9764-6

de Graaff M-A, Throop H, Verburg PSJ, Arnone JA III, Campos X.

Carbon allocation in Larrea tridentata plant-soil systems as affected by elevated soil moisture and N availability

2014

Plant and Soils, Volume 378, Issue 1-2, pp 227-238

Verburg, P. S., Kapitzke, S. E., Stevenson, B. A., Bisiaux, M.

Effects of climate and vegetation on soil nutrients in the Great Basin studied using a latitudinal-elevational gradient.

2014

Plant and Soil, 382, 151-163.

Johnson, B., Verburg, P. S., Arnone, J. A.

Do increased summer precipitation and N deposition alter fine root dynamics in a Mojave Desert ecosystem?

2013

Global Change Biology. 19, 948-956

Verburg P.S.J., A.C. Young, B.A. Stevenson, I. Glanzmann, J.A. Arnone III, G. M. Marion, C. Holmes, R.S. Nowak

Moisture effects on carbon and nitrogen emission from burning of wildland biomass.

2010

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion, 10, 7985-8007.

Chen, L.-W. A., P. Verburg, A. Shackelford, D. Zhu, R. Susfalk, J. C. Chow, J. G. Watson.

Impacts of an anomalously warm year on nutrient availability in experimentally manipulated tallgrass prairie ecosystems.

2009

Global Change Biology. 15: 888-900

Verburg, P.S.J., D.W. Johnson, D.E. Schorran, L.L. Wallace, Y. Luo, J.A. Arnone III.

Reduction of ecosystem CO2 uptake in anomalously warm year persists due to lagged rise in respiration.

2008

Nature. 455:383-386.

Arnone III, J.A., P.S.J. Verburg, D.W. Johnson, J.D. Larsen, R.L. Jasoni, A.J. Farnady, C.M. Batts, C. von Nagy, W.G. Coulombe, D.E. Schorran, P.E. Buck, B.H. Braswell, J.S. Coleman, R.A. Sherry, L.L. Wallace, Y. Luo, D.S. Schimel

Soluble element distributions in a Mojave Desert soil.

2008

Soil Science Society of America Journal. 72:1815-1823

Marion, G.M., P.S.J. Verburg, B. Stevenson, J.A. Arnone III.

Impacts of an anomalously warm year on soil CO2 fluxes in experimentally manipulated tallgrass prairie ecosystems.

2005

Global Change Biology. 11:1720-1732

Verburg, P.S.J., J. Larsen, D.W. Johnson, D.E. Schorran, J.A. Arnone III.

Special Publications

The Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Reclaimed Water Used for Irrigation of Agricultural Crops in Nevada

2021

Extension I University of Nevada, Reno, SP-21-07

Busse, G., Verburg, P., Hanigan, D., Sharma, P., Yang, Y., Pagilla, K., & Singletary, L.

This publication, which is part of a series, reports on experimental research to quantify the fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal care Products in alfalfa and green wheatgrass irrigated with...