Amelia Nelson Kuhn
@ameliarnelson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ University of Southern Indiana. Interested in all things soil microbiome and soil carbon. Formerly @ UC Berkeley (Postdoc), Colorado State University (PhD), Ohio State University (MS), and Indiana University (BS).
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Meet @ameliarnelson.bsky.social, our featured scientist of the week! She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana!
#EarlyCareer #AGU #
#EarlyCareer #AGU #
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Meet @ameliarnelson.bsky.social, our featured scientist of the week! She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana!
#EarlyCareer #AGU #
#EarlyCareer #AGU #
Excited to share that I’ve joined the @usiedu.bsky.social Pott College as an Assistant Professor of Geology! Excited to be back in my home state and start exploring how Indiana ecosystems store and cycle carbon, + develop the environmental science curriculum at USI!
August 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Excited to share that I’ve joined the @usiedu.bsky.social Pott College as an Assistant Professor of Geology! Excited to be back in my home state and start exploring how Indiana ecosystems store and cycle carbon, + develop the environmental science curriculum at USI!
My first noticeable Bay Area earthquake since moving here and my geologist heart is excited!!
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My first noticeable Bay Area earthquake since moving here and my geologist heart is excited!!
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Happy to share this work that just came out. Emily Bechtold and co-authors collated a huge amount of field microbiome data to identify microbial signals associated with high methane fluxes from freshwater terrestrial wetlands - more here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands - Nature Communications
The authors created a multisite database to link microbial methane-cycling networks to CH4 fluxes across diverse wetlands, revealing differences in microbial cross-feeding and methanogen dynamics that...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Happy to share this work that just came out. Emily Bechtold and co-authors collated a huge amount of field microbiome data to identify microbial signals associated with high methane fluxes from freshwater terrestrial wetlands - more here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Anyone have steam pipes or tunnels on their campus that they'd be willing to sample? (scraping nearby wall/puddle/soil) We've had awesome success so far culturing high temp amoebae (TY @micromaresca.bsky.social and @tacaro.bsky.social for sample collection) and want to broaden efforts! #MicroSky 🧪⚒️
January 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Anyone have steam pipes or tunnels on their campus that they'd be willing to sample? (scraping nearby wall/puddle/soil) We've had awesome success so far culturing high temp amoebae (TY @micromaresca.bsky.social and @tacaro.bsky.social for sample collection) and want to broaden efforts! #MicroSky 🧪⚒️
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Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
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January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Feeling energized for science in the new year after a trip to the Hopland Research and Extension Center for the Soil SFA all-hands meeting. Beautiful field sites and reconnecting with old friends 🌳
January 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Feeling energized for science in the new year after a trip to the Hopland Research and Extension Center for the Soil SFA all-hands meeting. Beautiful field sites and reconnecting with old friends 🌳
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January 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Spent my morning moderating the first half of the Berkeley Science Bowl - main takeaway: high schoolers are SO. SMART. 😳 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Spent my morning moderating the first half of the Berkeley Science Bowl - main takeaway: high schoolers are SO. SMART. 😳 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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I'm not even going to #AGU24, but I'm still saying things like "wow I can't believe AGU is next week already" because that's just how geoscientists measure time.
December 5, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I'm not even going to #AGU24, but I'm still saying things like "wow I can't believe AGU is next week already" because that's just how geoscientists measure time.
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Hello bluesky world! Happy to be here and looking forward to connecting/re-connecting with you all. I'm excited to share a paper just out today, led by postdoc @alexjaf.bsky.social. Prochlorococcus with two forms of rubisco! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/....
Cyanobacteria from marine oxygen-deficient zones encode both form I and form II Rubiscos | PNAS
Cyanobacteria are highly abundant in the marine photic zone and primary drivers of
the conversion of inorganic carbon into biomass. To date, all st...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Hello bluesky world! Happy to be here and looking forward to connecting/re-connecting with you all. I'm excited to share a paper just out today, led by postdoc @alexjaf.bsky.social. Prochlorococcus with two forms of rubisco! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/....
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Scientists and academics: let's crowdsource!
Which tools have you found most useful to keep track of projects and tasks? What do you like about them?
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Which tools have you found most useful to keep track of projects and tasks? What do you like about them?
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November 21, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Scientists and academics: let's crowdsource!
Which tools have you found most useful to keep track of projects and tasks? What do you like about them?
🧬🧪🔬 #scisky
Which tools have you found most useful to keep track of projects and tasks? What do you like about them?
🧬🧪🔬 #scisky
Headed to my 5th (and final‼️) AGU of my PhD - & I’ll be presenting *quite literally* ALL of my PhD research! Come hear about the post-fire soil microbiome at my talk in the FICUS town hall Tues (TH23L), my poster on Wed (B33J-2374), OR my talk on Fri (GC51C-05)!
December 11, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Headed to my 5th (and final‼️) AGU of my PhD - & I’ll be presenting *quite literally* ALL of my PhD research! Come hear about the post-fire soil microbiome at my talk in the FICUS town hall Tues (TH23L), my poster on Wed (B33J-2374), OR my talk on Fri (GC51C-05)!