Member Since 2011
Kelly C. Wrighton
Professor, Colorado State University Fort Collins
Professional Experience
Colorado State University Fort Collins
Professor
2020 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2010
Honors & Awards
Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences
Received December 2020
James B. Macelwane Medal
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering research on the role of microorganisms in carbon cycling in the deep subsurface and in controlling methane emissions from wetlands.
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For pioneering research on the role of microorganisms in carbon cycling in the deep subsurface and in controlling methane emissions from wetlands.
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Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Publications
ELM‐Wet: Inclusion of a Wet‐Landunit With Sub‐Grid Representation of Eco‐Hydrological Patches and Hy...
Wetlands are the largest emitters of biogenic methane (CH4) and represent the highest source of uncertainty in global CH4 budgets. Here, we aim to ...
February 04, 2025
Relationships Between Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a Temperate Cattail-Dominated Freshwater ...
Wetlands are the most important natural source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, and there is still considerable uncertainty of CH4 flux and net ...
July 13, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Methanotrophic Potential of a Northern Fen Peatland
BUILDING A MORE COMPLETE REPRESENTATION OF METHANE DYNAMICS ACROSS EARTH'S ECOSYSTEMS I POSTER
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Rachel Wilson, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, Cheristy Jones...
Northern peatlands store a large quantity of carbon equivalent to approximately 50% of the current atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) pool, a large port...
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ELM-Wet: A new wet-landunit approach for patch-level resolution of carbon and methane fluxes from wetlands in ELM
THE GLOBAL METHANE BUDGET AND ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF WETLAND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS II ORAL
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Gil Bohrer, Theresia Yazbeck, Madeline Scyphers, J...
We improved the realism of wetland representation in the U.S. Department of Energys Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) Land-surface Model (ELM). We de...
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Methanotrophy as a natural mechanism of methane mitigation at the terrestrial-aquatic interface
WHERE LAND MEETS WATER: BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING AT THE TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC INTERFACE I POSTER
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Sophie Jurgensen, Jared Ellenbogen, Sam Aroney, Br...
Saturated soils are the largest natural source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to 30% of global warming. The balance of net metha...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Chair
Biogeosciences Hilker Award
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