Dietrich Epp Schmidt
Bridges deep-soil microbiome data and DNA sequencing with applied regenerative agroforestry and ectomycorrhizal nursery practice.
The record
- Standing
- active practice
- Based
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service · United States
- Focus area
- Computational Ecology
- Works on
- ectomycorrhizal fungi, urban soil microbiomes, amplicon sequencing methods, quantitative microbiome inference, agroforestry inoculation.
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The work
Soil microbial ecologist, biostatistician, and data dashboard developer (PhD, University of Maryland, Yarwood lab). Lead author of the 2017 Nature Ecology & Evolution study showing urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity across cities worldwide, and of USDA-ARS work on how soil depth outweighs farming system in shaping microbiomes. Works as a natural resources specialist with USDA NRCS, builds open-source R/Shiny tools for microbiome analysis, and runs the Mycoforestry Project on ectomycorrhizal inoculation of nursery trees.
Where to read them
- Dietrich Epp Schmidt — lab or personal site
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service — the organisation
- Epp Schmidt et al. (2017) Urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity, Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Epp Schmidt et al. (2022) Soil microbiomes in three farming systems more affected by depth than farming system
- Mycoforestry Project
- GitHub: Djeppschmidt (Model.Microbiome, SequenceSOP)
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