Wells, Jon M.

Member Profile

Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss)
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 5620
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Room 107, Science Lab Facility Building (#17)
Email: jon.wells@nau.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-5037-8798
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jon_Wells5

Research Interest
• Earth system models, matrix modeling approach, data-model integration
• Biogeochemistry and global carbon cycling
• Tropical bioenergy production systems

Education
2020 Ph.D., Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa

2010 B.S., Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Experience
2020 - present, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University.
• Predicting US land C sequestration potential/uncertainty using matrix models and data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

2014 - 2018, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii
• Developed matrix models of soil carbon dynamics in tropical soils using both incubation and soil fraction data.

2010 - 2014, Laboratory Research Technician/Lab Manager, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management University of Hawaii
• Investigated the impacts of agricultural management on soil carbon.
• Collaborated with federal, state, and private stakeholders to facilitate research conducted on Oahu and Maui.

Publications
Crow, S. E., Wells, J. M., Sierra, C. A., Youkhana, A. H., Ogoshi, R. M., Richardson, D., . . . Kiniry, J. R. (2020). Carbon flow through energycane agroecosystems established post-intensive agriculture. GCB Bioenergy. doi:10.1111/gcbb.12713

Wells, J. M., Drielak, E., Surendra, K. C., & Kumar Khanal, S. (2020). Hot water pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass: Modeling the effects of temperature, enzyme and biomass loadings on sugar yield. Bioresource Technology. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122593

Crow, S. E., Deem, L. M., Sierra, C. A., & Wells, J. M. (2018). Belowground Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Perennial C4 Grass Agroecosystems. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, 18.

Wells, J. M., Crow, S. E., Meki, M. N., Sierra, C. A., Carlson, K. M., Youkhana, A., . . . Deem, L. (2017). Maximizing Soil Carbon Sequestration: Assessing Procedural Barriers to Carbon Management in Cultivated Tropical Perennial Grass Systems. In YY Young. Recent Advances in Carbon Capture and Storage. Rijeka: InTech.

Wells, J. M., Crow, S. E., Ogoshi, R., Turano, B., & Hashimoto, A. (2015). Optimizing feedstock selection for biofuel production in Hawaii: CuO oxidative lignin products in C4 grasses. Biomass and Bioenergy, 83, 511-515. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.10.027

Professional development
2020 New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling, a virtual training course by Yiqi Luo at Northern Arizona University

2017 Visiting Scholar, worked on matrix models of soil carbon dynamics with Dr. Carlos Sierra at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Service
Reviewer – Environmental Research Letters, 2019

Skills
Tools: Latex, Git
Languages: R, Rmarkdown, Fortran, C, VBA, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Python