Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad

Associate Professor of Geology & Coordinator of Environment, Sustainability & Society

Courses taught in GESC (also teaches in CHEM):

• The Global Environment w/ 2 hr lab (introductory course with environmental focus)
• Climate Change/Global Environmental Change – cross with ENSS
• Environmental Chemistry with a 4-hr lab
• Flight Path: Discover Your Place (first-year seminar)
• Flight Path: Art and Science of the Human Landscape (first-year course)
• Groundwater Hydrology w/ 3 hr lab
• Geochemistry w/ 4 hr lab
• Soils and the Rhizosphere (Introductory Soil Science) with a 2-hr lab – cross with ENSS
• Senior Project

Recent Publications:

• Dohnalkova, A. C., Tfaily, M. M., Chu, R. K., Smith, A. P., Brislawn, C. J., Varga, T., Crump, A. R., Kovarik, L., Thomashow, L. S., Harsh, J. B., Keller, C. K., & Balogh-Brunstad, Z. (2022). Effects of Microbial-Mineral Interactions on Organic Carbon Stabilization in a Ponderosa Pine Root Zone: A Micro-Scale Approach. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.799694 – manuscript
• Dontsova, K., Balogh‐Brunstad, Z., and Le Roux, G. (2021), Evaluating the impact and reach of biogeochemical cycles, Eos, 102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO163024. Published on 20 September 2021. – manuscript
• Dontsova, K., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Le Roux, G. (2020) Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248), American Geophysical Union, 1st ed. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119413332 – book editor
  Chapters within the book
• Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Smart*, K. E., Dohnalkova, A. C., Saccone, L., Smits, M. M (2020) Micro- and nano-scale techniques to explore bacteria and fungi interactions with silicate minerals. Chapter 4, pp. 81-101, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119413332.ch4 in:
  Donstsova, K., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Le Roux, G. (eds.) Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248), American Geophysical Union, 1st ed.
• Dontsova, K., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Chorover, J. (2020) Plants as Drivers of Rock Weathering. Chapter 2, pp. 33-58, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119413332.ch2 in: Donstsova, K., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Le Roux, G. (eds.) Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248), American Geophysical Union, 1st ed.
• Dontsova, K., Balogh‐Brunstad, Z., Le Roux, G. (2020). Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts of Biogeochemical Cycles: Challenges and Opportunities. Chapter 15, pp. 301-306, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119413332.ch15 in:
• Donstsova, K., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Le Roux, G. (eds.) Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248), American Geophysical Union, 1st ed.
• Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Keller, C. K., Shi, Z., Wallander, H., & Stipp, S. L. (2017). Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Mineral Interactions in the Rhizosphere of Scots and Red Pine Seedlings. Soils, 1(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/soils1010005 – manuscript
• Brantley, S. L., Eissenstat, D. M., Marshall, J. A., Godsey, S. E., Balogh-Brunstad, Z., Karwan, D. L., Papuga, S. A., Roering, J., Dawson, T. E., Evaristo, J., Chadwick, O., McDonnell, J. J., and Weathers, K. C. (2017). Reviews and syntheses: on the roles trees play in building and plumbing the critical zone, Biogeosciences, 14, 5115-5142, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5115-2017 – manuscript

Distinctions (Awards, Fellowships and Grants):

• AGU Collection COP26, 2021, selected our book “Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts”, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248) for the free virtual book showcase in support of the 2021 COP conferences in Milan and Glasgow. Each book publisher contributed four titles about climate change and sustainability.
• AAP Prose Award Nomination in Environmental Sciences, 2020, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for the “Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impacts”, Geophysical Monograph Series (Book 248).
• National Science Foundation 2017-18: EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research): How does soil moisture content affect fungal weathering, diversity and abundance? Awarded. PI; NSF/EAR 1742941
• 2017 Freedman Prize in collaboration with students Kevin J. LeDone ’18 (co-advisor Dr. Piefer), Victoria L. Hubbard ’18, and Ian C. Forbes ’18.
• 2016 Outstanding Reviewer for Journal of Soils and Sediments, Springer Publications
• 2016 Freedman Prize in collaboration with students Nicole K. Mehr ’17, and Kyle E. Smart ’17.
• Faculty Research Grant and Milne Family Fund Awards, Hartwick College, 2016-17: Continuation of monitoring the effects of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on soil and soil water chemistry at two state parks.

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