Welcome to the Houlton lab! Please explore the links for information about our research activities and achievements. Please feel free to contact Ben at bzhoulton ‘at’ ucdavis ‘dot’ edu with any queries.

Houlton group, 2011-2012. Left to right. Benjamin Houlton, Jorge Izquierdo, Sara Enders, Alison Marklein, Scott Morford, Joy Cookingham, Hanna Morris. (Not pictured: Annalee Sanborn)

• 02/12, Ben has been named to the editorial board of Ecology.
• 02/12, Ben co-authored a paper led by Alan Townsend and in collaboration with Peter Vitousek on the role of nitrogen and phosphorus in reducing risks of climate change on human health and the environment.
• 02/12, Ben gave a talk at the Cargnegie Institution for Science at Stanford on the role of rock weathering in the global nitrogen cycle. It was a very nice reunion with such an impressive scientific organization.
• 12/11, Congratulations to Ben on his NSF-CAREER award. The five year award (670k) will support our ongoing investigations of land nitrogen cycling and Ben's advisement of SEEDS and Environmentors at UC Davis.
• 10/11, Congratulations to Alison and Ben for their recent paper on global nurient interactions to be published in New Phytologist.
• 10/11, Ben gave a talk on carbon sequestration in forests and agriculture to a broad range of scientists and non-scientists at a special session meeting sponsored by the Division of Environmnental and Life Sciences . The meeting, held in Irvine, CA, spanned technical to natural solutions to reducing levels of atmospheric CO2.
• 09/11, Listen to Ben's radio interview on NPR's "Morning Edition".
• 09/11, Listen to Ben's radio interview on BBC's "The Naked Scientists". A segment also aired on BBC's weekly radio show.
• 08/11, Our paper on bedrock nitrogen and forest carbon storage has appeared in Nature. The press release can be found here.
• 07/11, Ben participated in and chaired a group of scientists who's aim is to understand inefficiencies in nitrogen use in the United States. The group's report will be submitted to the US Climate Assessment.
• 06/11, Ben gave a talk on the role of phosphorus in the global climate system at a joint European and US sponsored meeting in Iceland. The meeting included a host of experimentalists and theoretical modelers.
• 04/11, Ben gave a talk on the global ecology of nitrogen at Northern Arizona University. The talk can be heard here. Flagstaff is an amazingly vibrant place, with an excellent group of ecologists.
• 03/11, Congratulations to Sara on her EPA STAR fellowship award!
• 02/11, Ben co-authored two papers that appeared in a special issue on coupled biogechemical cycles in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
• 01/20/10, Listen to Ben's radio interview on interactions between nitrogen and global warming
• 01/10/10, Our work on climate change has been covered by Discovery Channel, MSNBC/Today, and Nature.