Zachary S. Brecheisen
PhD Candidate, Environmental Science and Policy
DU Nicholas School - Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment
PhD, Environmental Science and Policy, Duke University, 2018
BA, Biology, Anthropology, New Mexico State University, 2012
Working with Dr. Dan Richter at Duke, I’m a budding forest ecologist, biogeochemist, and hydrologist; aka a soil scientist. I’m interested in how ecosystems respond and recover from human disturbance. I’m particularly interested in agriculture and old field succession.
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2020
Persistent anthropogenic legacies structure depth dependence of regenerating rooting systems and their functions. Hauser, Emma, Daniel D. Richter, Daniel Markewitz, Zachary Brecheisen, and Sharon A. Billings (2020): Biogeochemistry 147: 259-275
2020
Soil production and the soil geomorphology legacy of Grove Karl Gilbert. Richter, Daniel D., Martha-Cary Eppes, Jason C. Austin, Allan R. Bacon, Sharon A. Billings, Zachary Brecheisen, Terry A. Ferguson, Daniel Markewitz, Julio Pachon, Paul A. Schroeder, Anna M. Wade (2020): Soil Science Society of America Journal 84(1): 1-20
2019
Micro-topographic roughness analysis (MTRA) highlights minimally eroded terrain in a landscape severely impacted by historic agriculture. Brecheisen, Zachary S., Charles W. Cook, Paul R. Heine, and Daniel deB. Richter (2019): Remote Sensing of Environment 222: 78-89
2019
Development and deployment of a field-portable soil O2 and CO2 gas analyzer and sampler. Brecheisen, Zachary S., Charles W. Cook, Paul R. Heine, Junmo Ryang, Daniel deB. Richter (2019): PLoS ONE 14(8): e0220176
2018
Loss of deep roots limits biogenic agents of soil development that are only partially restored by decades of forest regeneration. Billings, S.A., D. Hirmas, P.L. Sullivan, C.A. Lehmeier, S. Bagchi, K. Min, Z. Brecheisen, E. Hauser, R. Stair, R. Flournoy, D. deB. Richter (2018): Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 6(1): 34
2018
Carbon and oxygen isotope composition in soil carbon dioxide within deep Ultisols at the Calhoun CZO, South Carolina, USA. Cherkinsky A., Brecheisen Z , Richter D. (2018): Radiocarbon 60(5): 1357-1366
2018
Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks. Richter, D.D., S.A. Billings, P.M. Groffman, E.F. Kelly, K.A. Lohse, W.H. McDowell, T.S. White, S. Anderson, D.D. Baldocchi, S. Banwart, S. Brantley, J.J. Braun, Z.S. Brecheisen, C.W. Cook, H.E. Hartnett, S.E. Hobbie, J. Gaillardet, E. Jobbagy, H.F. Jungkunst, C.E. Kazanski, J. Krishnaswamy, D. Markewitz, K. O’Neill, C.S. Riebe, P. Schroeder, C. Siebe, W.L. Silver, A. Thompson, A. Verhoef, G. Zhang (2018): Biogeosciences 15: 4815-4832 Cross-CZO National
2015
Soil in the Anthropocene. Richter D. deB, Bacon A.R, Brecheisen Z., & Mobley M.L. (2015): IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 25: 012010
2014
Ordering interfluves: A simple proposal for understanding critical zone evolution. Brecheisen, Z.S., and D. deB. Richter (2014): Procedia Earth and Planetary Science 10: 77-81
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2018
Carbon isotopes reveal signals of the Anthropocene in soil carbon pools deep within the critical zone. Billings, S.A., Z.S. Brecheisen, A. Cherkinsky, C.W. Cook, C. Lehmeier, D. deB. Richter (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2018
A tale of two CZ’s: Comparing shallow and deep old-field forest regeneration at the Calhoun CZO. Brecheisen Z., Richter D., Cook C., and Heine P. (2018): Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, MA, 12-17 August 2018
2018
Time-series measurements of deep soil profile O2, CO2, soil moisture, and aboveground precipitation highlight differential rooting across landuse history treatments at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Brecheisen, Z.S., D. deB. Richter, C.W. Cook, P. Heine, J. Austin (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2018
Macro to Micro Legacies of Landuse at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Brecheisen, Zachary S. (2018): PhD Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2017
Soil weathering agents are limited where deep tree roots are removed, even after decades of forest regeneration. Billings, Sharon A, Daniel deB. Richter, Daniel Hirmas, Christoph Lehmeier, Samik Bagchi, Zachary Brecheisen, Pamela L Sullivan, Kyungjin Min, Emma Hauser, Rena Stair, Rebecca Flournoy (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2017
Ordering interfluves: quantifying critical zone landscape structure and function. Brecheisen, Zachary S., Seulgi Moon, Patrick Halpin, Daniel deB. Richter (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017
2017
Landuse legacies of old-field succession and soil structure at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory in SC, USA. Brecheisen, Zachary Scott, Daniel deB. Richter, Mac Callaham, Roberto Carrera-Martinez, Paul Heine (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2017
Old-field succession: Land-use legacies and below-ground respiration. Brecheisen, Zachary, Daniel Richter, Will Cook, Paul Heine (2017): Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 6-11 August 2017
2017
Regeneration of critical zone structure: Macroporosity and soil gasses in old-field forest soils of the southeastern US. Brecheisen, Zachary, Mac A. Callaham Jr., Daniel deB. Richter (2017): Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, 22-25 Oct. 2017
2017
Ordering interfluves: an analytical framework for hierarchical patterns in landscape structure and function. Brecheisen, Zachary, Seulgi Moon, Daniel Richter, Patrick Halpin (2017): American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 7 April 2017
2017
How to make soil: Add parent material, soil animals, roots, weather, and set the blender on "liquefy". Callaham, M.A. Jr., K.R. Butt, J. Görres, D.deB. Richter, and Z. Brecheisen (2017): 5th Nereis Park Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, Southampton, NY, 8-11 August 2017
2017
Past, present and future earthworm-related research at the Calhoun CZO. Callaham, Mac, Roberto Carrera-Martínez, Zach Brecheisen, Melanie Taylor, Dan Markewitz, and Dan Richter (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2017
Carbon and oxygen isotope composition in soil carbon dioxide within deep Ultisols at the Calhoun CZO, South Carolina, USA. Cherkinsky, A., Brecheisen Z., Richter D. (2017): 2nd International Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 3-7 July 2017
2017
Estimation of soil respiration rates and soil gas isotopic composition for the different land use of Ultisols from Calhoun CZO. Cherkinsky, Alexander, Zachary Brecheisen, Daniel deB. Richter, Hong Sheng (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2017
Land use legacies in the Calhoun CZO: The implications of human behavior for Critical Zone processes. Nelson, Donald R., Daniel D. Richter Jr., Michael Coughlan, Michael Lonneman, Zachary Brecheisen (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2017
Gilbert’s soil production paradigm and a critical zone’s size-dependent fractionation of particles. Richter, D.deB., J. Austin, R. Anderson, A. Bacon, S. Brantley, Z. Brecheisen, A. Cherkinsky, W.S. Holbrook, V. Marcon, J.Pachon, P. Schroeder, A. Thompson, and A. Wade (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017 Cross-CZO
2017
Gilbert's soil production paradigm applied to a critical zone's fractionation of particle sizes. Richter, Daniel deB., Jason Austin, Robert S Anderson, Allan R Bacon, Susan L Brantley, Zachary Brecheisen, Paul A Schroeder, Anna Wade, W. Steven Holbrook, Virginia Marcon, Aaron Thompson (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017 Cross-CZO
2015
Watersheds and Landsheds: Bringing Hortonian Stream Ordering to Upland Systems. Brecheisen, Z. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2015
1933 CCZO aerial photography mosaic . Brecheisen, Z., and Cook, W. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2015
Ordering interfluves: a simple proposal for understanding critical zone evolution and function. Brecheisen, Z.; Richter, D.; Moon, S.; Halpin, P. (2015): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA
2015
Estimation of LAI, fPAR and AGB based on data from Landsat 8 and LiDAR at the Calhoun CZO. Majasalmi, T., Palmroth, S., Cook, W., Brecheisen, Z., Richter, D. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2014
Ordering interfluves: A simple proposal for understanding critical zone evolution. Brecheisen, Z.S., and D. deB. Richter (2014): Procedia Earth and Planetary Science 10: 77-81
2014
Ordering interfluves: a simple proposal for understanding critical zone evolution and function. Brecheisen, Zachary S., Xing Chen, and Daniel deB. Richter (2014): CZO Network 2014 All Hands Meeting, Fish Camp, California
2014
Calhoun CZO: understanding critical zone evolution after a legacy of degradation. Mallard, J., B. McGlynn, D. Richter, D. Markewitz, Z. Brecheisen (2014): Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI) Biennial Colloquium, Shepherdstown, WV
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News
Calhoun CZO featured in Duke Magazine
14 Nov 2018 - How critical zone science unearths secrets: The new cross-disciplinary field of study concerns itself with the living skin of the Earth.
Elevating the biogeosciences within environmental research networks
02 Mar 2018 - This manuscript, led by Dan Richter with six Calzones co-authors, was just submitted to Biogeosciences Discussions.
2018 Southeast Friends of the Pleistocene Field Conference
09 Feb 2018 - Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Biogeochemistry of the Southern Piedmont Critical Zone
Zach Brecheisen wins the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Fellowship
27 Apr 2017 - The Forest History Society announces that Zachary Brecheisen is the 2017-18 recipient of the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellowship! The fellowship consists...
First flux tower erected at the Calhoun CZO
17 Aug 2016 - On August 17, 2016 a crew from Georgia Tech led by graduate student Yao Tang and professor Jingfeng Wang, with a little help from the folks at Duke,...
Going deep! Gas wells installed at 8.5 m
14 Jul 2016 - Another Calhoun CZO record - gas reservoirs installed at 8.5m depth! Jay Austin, Zach Brecheisen, and Dan Richter only stopped at 8.5m because they...
TDR probes installed to monitor soil moisture
13 Jul 2016 - On July 13, 2016, Duke PhD candidate Zach Brecheisen, with assistance from his advisor Dan Richter and Jay Austin, installed TDR probes at 25-cm...
CCZO multi-layer geospatial pdf map updated!
11 Sep 2015 - Grad student Zach Brecheisen has updated this wonderful multi-layered pdf to share with other CCZO researchers.
CCZO multi-layer geospatial pdf map
13 Apr 2015 - Grad student Zach Brecheisen has created this wonderful multi-layered pdf to share with other CCZO researchers.
New CCZO publications
23 Jul 2014 - 1) A new history of Calhoun book chapter is being published this summer. Written by Dan Richter and co-authored by 19 scientists and land...
Duke PhD Students win 2-year IGERT Fellowships
23 Jul 2014 - Three students working on the Calhoun CZO have been selected to join Duke’s WISeNet program on wireless technology. They will work...
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