Alejandro Salazar
Several of the speakers of INTERCAMBIO after the opening breakfast. From left to right, front line: Jeff Dukes (keynote speaker), Maria Uribe, Alejandro Salazar, Alma Castro (helped with logistics), Qianlai Zhuang; back line: Stephen Sitch, Lina Mercado, Ángela Rendón, Juan-Fernando Salazar, Juan-Camilo Villegas, Ken Feeley, and Daniel Ruiz.
Event organization
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INTERCAMBIO (~100 participants):
International Conference on Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions
Role: lead organizer and speaker
Medellín, Colombia
October 31-November 2, 2016
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An Integrated Network for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research on Feedbacks to the Atmosphere and ClimatE: Linking experimentalists, ecosystem modelers, and Earth system modelers.
Role: helped with logistics, presented a poster
St. Pete's Beach, FL, USA.
January 31-February 3, 2016.
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Highlighted presentations in academic events
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- Oral presentations
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Oral presentation: Nitrogen fixation rates and cyanobacteria cover are enhanced by warming, wetting and light in a subarctic biological soil crust. Alejandro Salazar, Clara Vásquez, Denis Warshan, Ólafur Andressón. October 14-16, 2021.
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Oral presentation: Awakening a dormant "giant": warming induced activation of dormant microbes and consequences for soil carbon emissions. Pop-Up Global Symposia about Life & Ecology for You 2020 [PUGSLEY 2020], University of Minnesota. July 2, 2020 (virtual).
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Oral presentation: Belowground N responses to warming in cold ecosystems. EGU. Vienna, Austria. April 8, 2019. Abstract here.
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Oral presentation: Biocrust - a diverse biodiversity community unique to the highlands of Iceland (Hélumosalífskurn – fjölþætt lífverusamfélag sérkennandi fyrir hálendi Íslands). Ólafur S. Andrésson, Alejandro Salazar Villegas, Petra L. Guðmundsdóttir, & Rúna Björk Smáradóttir. October 17, 2019.
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Oral presentation: The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates. Biology Seminars, University of Iceland. Reykjavík, Iceland. September 28, 2018.
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Oral presentation: Belowground N responses to warming in cold ecosystems: a meta-analysis. 2018 International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). Stirling, Scotland. April 25-27, 2018.
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Oral presentation: The role of microbial dormancy in soil carbon-climate feedbacks. Líffræðigáttin (The Icelandic Biology Conference. Reykjavík, Iceland. October 27, 2017.
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Oral presentation: Microbial activity is a better predictor of soil respiration than microbial biomass or composition. Ecological Society of America (ESA). Portland, OR, USA. 2017.
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Oral presentation: Quantifying and modeling microbial influences on soil carbon processes. International Conference on Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions (INTERCAMBIO). Medellín, Colombia. 2016.
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Oral presentation: Quantifying microbial dormancy for use in soil carbon models that explicitly include microbes. Ecological Society of America (ESA). Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 2016.
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- Poster presentations
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Poster: Cool biocrust: A long-term warming experiment with subarctic biological soil crust. Icelandic Ecological Society meeting 2022. Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. April 18, 2022.
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Poster: The ecology of peace: Preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates. 2018 Ecological Society of Iceland conference. Reykjavík, Iceland. March 16, 2018.
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Poster: Quantifying and modeling microbial influences on soil carbon processes. International Conference on Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions (INTERCAMBIO). Medellín, Colombia. 2016.
Poster: Quantifying microbial physiology to link observations & soil C models. An Integrated Network for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research on Feedbacks to the Atmosphere and ClimatE (INTERFACE): Linking experimentalists, ecosystem modelers, and Earth system modelers. St. Pete’s Beach, FL, USA. 2016.
Poster: Awakening of dormant soil microbes: implications for soil CO2 emissions. Ecological Society of America (ESA). Baltimore, MD, USA. 2015.
Poster: Microbial Dormancy and Soil CO2 Emissions. RCN workshop: Representing Soil Carbon Dynamics in Global Land Models to Improve Future IPCC Assessments. Breckenridge, CO, USA. 2014.