Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Krasner, N. Z., Li, Y., Friis, D. C., Benitez, J., Stebbins, E., Pinilla, P., Maciel, P., Thompson, A., Wong, M., Condon, D., Lybrand, R. A., & Hernandez, R. R. (2025). Soil surface properties and implications for soil carbon sequestration in early-stage ecovoltaic grassland restoration. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 13, 1646181. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1646181. PDF of Article
Krasner, N. Z., Fox, J., Armstrong, A., Ave, K., Carvalho, F., Li, Y., Walston, L. J., Ricketts, M. P., Jordaan, S. M., Abou Najm, M., Hartmann, H. M., Lybrand, R., & Hernandez, R. R. (2025). Impacts of photovoltaic solar energy on soil carbon: A global systematic review and framework. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 208, 115032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.115032. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A. Stories of mineral transformation. Nat. Geosci.18, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.115032. PDF of Article
Slimani, I., Doane, T., Zhu-Barker, X., Lazicki, P., Lybrand, R. A., Zaharescu, D. G., & Horwath, W. 2024. Iron-organic carbon coprecipitates reduce nitrification by restricting molybdenum in agricultural soils. Frontiers in Materials, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2024.1346112. PDF of Article
Portes, R., Spinola, D., Ketterer, M. E., Egli, M., Lybrand, R. A., Fedenko, J., … D’Amore, D. V. 2024. Assessing decadal soil redistribution rates using 239+240pu across diverse lithologies in Southeast Alaska. Soil Science Society of America Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20732. PDF of Article
Fedenko, J., D'Amore, D., Spinola, D., Portes, R., Dere, A., Lybrand, R. A. 2024. Spodosol development and soil organic carbon distribution along a lithosequence in perhumid coastal temperate rainforest. Soil Science Society of America Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20695. PDF of Article
Bonnar, D. J., Eichler, J. P., Parikh, S. J., Blandino, A., Lybrand, R. A., Morris, M. L., Hengel, M. J., Tjeerdema, R. S. 2023. Soil-Water Partitioning Behavior of Oxyfluorfen Under California Rice Field Conditions. ACS Agricultural Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.3c00341. PDF of Article
Martinez, P., Lybrand, R. A., McFarlane, K. J., Dor, M., Gallo, A. C., Mayedo, A., Marini, F., Vidal-Torrado, P., Kleber, M.2023. Organic carbon enables the biotic engineering of beneficial soil structure in Profundihumic and Haplic Ferralsols. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(5), e13415. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13415. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A. 2023. Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science. Earth-Science Reviews, 237, 104247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104247 PDF of Article
Rooney, E.C., Bailey, V.L., Patel, K.F., Kholodov, A., Golightly, H., Lybrand, R.A. 2023. Topography and canopy cover influence soil organic carbon composition and distribution across a forested hillslope in the discontinuous permafrost zone. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes,34(3): 331-358. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2200. PDF of Article Rooney, E.C., V. L. Bailey, K. F. Patel, A.R. Possinger, A.C. Gallo, M. Bergmann, M. SanClements, R.A. Lybrand. 2022. The Impact of freeze-thaw history on soil carbon response to experimental freeze-thaw cycles. JGR: Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006889.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006889 PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Qafoku, O., Bowden, M.E. et al. 2022. Fungal hyphae develop where titanomagnetite inclusions reach the surface of basalt grains. Sci Rep12, 3407. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04157-z. PDF of Article
Spinola, D., Portes, R., Fedenko, J., Lybrand, R.A., Dere, A., Biles, F., Trainor, T., Bowden, M.E., D'Amore, D. 2022. Lithological controls on soil geochemistry and clay mineralogy across Spodosols in the coastal temperate rainforest of southeast Alaska. Geoderma, 428, 11611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116211. PDF of Article
Rooney, E.C., V. L. Bailey, K. F. Patel, M. Dragila, A.K. Battu, A.C. Buchko, A.C. Gallo, J. Hatten, A.R. Possinger, O. Qafoku, L. Reno, M. SanClements, T. Varga, Lybrand, R.A. 2022. Soil pore network response to freeze-thaw cycles in permafrost aggregates. Geoderma, Volume 411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115674. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Veghte, D.P., China, S., Zaharescu, D.G., Anderton, C.R., Aleman, R., Schroeder, P.A., and Qafoku, O. 2021. Deciphering the Incipient Phases of Ice–Mineral Interactions as a Precursor of Physical Weathering. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 5 (5), 1233-1241. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Fedenko, J., Tfaily, M., Rao, S. 2020. Soil properties and biochemical composition of ground‐dwelling bee nests in agricultural settings. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 7-23. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Austin, J.C., Fedenko, J., Gallery, R.E., Rooney, E., Schroeder, P.A., Zaharescu, D.G., Qafoku, O. 2019. A coupled microscopy approach to assess the nano-landscape of weathering. Nature Scientific Reports 9:5377 PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Gallery, R.E., Trahan, N.A., Moore, D.J.P. 2018. Disturbance Alters the Relative Importance of Topographic and Biogeochemical Controls on Microbial Activity in Temperate Montane forests. Forests. 9(2):97. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A. and Rasmussen, C. 2018. Climate, topography, and dust influences on the mineral and geochemical evolution of granitic soils in southern Arizona. Geoderma. 314:245-261. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Heckman, K., and Rasmussen, C. 2017. Soil organic carbon partitioning and 𝚫14C variation in desert and conifer ecosystems of southern Arizona. Biogeochemistry. 134:261-277. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Bockheim, J.G., Ge, W., Graham, R.C., Hlohowskyj, S.R., Michalski, G., Prellwitz, J.S., Rech, J.A., Wang, F., and Parker, D.R. 2016. Nitrate, perchlorate, and iodate co-occur in coastal and inland deserts on Earth. Chemical Geology. 442:174-186. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., and Rasmussen, C. 2015. Quantifying Climate and Landscape Position Controls on Soil Development in Semiarid Ecosystems. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 79:104-116. PDF of Article
Field, J.P., Breshears, D.D., Law, D.J., Villegas, J.C., Lopez-Hoffman, L., Brooks, P.D., Chorover, J., Barron-Gafford, G.A., Gallery, R.E., Litvak, M.C., Lybrand, R.A., McIntosh, J.C., Meixner, T., Niu, G-Y, Papuga, S.A., Pelletier, J.D., Rasmussen, C.R., and Troch, P.A. 2015. Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services. Vadose Zone Journal. doi:10.2136/vzj2014.10.0142 PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., and Rasmussen, C. 2014. Linking soil element-mass-transfer to microscale mineral weathering across a semiarid environmental gradient. Chemical Geology. 381:26-39. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., and Rasmussen, C. 2014. A cross-scale study of feldspar transformation in the Santa Catalina Mountain Critical Zone Observatory. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science. 10:63-68. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Michalski, G., Graham, R.C., and Parker, D.R. 2013. The geochemical associations of nitrate and naturally formed perchlorate in the Mojave Desert, California, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 104:136-147. PDF of Article
Pelletier, J.D., Barron-Gafford, G.A., Breshears, D.D., Brooks, P.D., Chorover, J., Durcik, M., Harman, C.J., Huxman, T.E., Lohse, K.A., Lybrand, R., Meixner, T., McIntosh, J.C., Papuga, S.A., Rasmussen, C., Schaap, M., Swetnam, T.L., and Troch, P.A. 2013. Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 118:741-758. PDF of Article
Lybrand, R.A., Rasmussen, C., Jardine, A., Troch, P. and Chorover, J. 2011. The effects of climate and landscape position on chemical denudation and mineral transformation in the Santa Catalina mountain critical zone observatory. Applied Geochemistry 26: S80-S84. PDF of Article
Book Chapters
Rasmussen, C., Lybrand, R.A., Orem, C., Kielhoffer, J., and Holleran, M. Western Range and Irrigated Land Resource Region. In: Soils of the United States. Pp. 115-130.