Education
PhD Candidate in Ecology. Anticipated Fall 2011. Duke University, Durham, NC.
Thesis: Aboveground and belowground changes in an ecosystem carbon budget with land use change and secondary succession
B.S. Environmental Sciences 2004. Duke University, Durham, NC.
Thesis: Environmental and species controls over N cycling in the alpine
Short course attendee 2007. UCalifornia-Irvine, Irvine, CA Radiocarbon in Ecology and Earth System Science. Instructors: Susan Trumbore (UC-Irvine), Ted Schuur (UFlorida).
Undergraduate Study Abroad 2003. Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.
Undergraduate Study Away 2002. Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC
Publications
Richter, DD and ML Mobley. 2009. Monitoring Earth's Critical Zone. Science 326:1067-1068. doi: 10.1126/science.1179117
Galik, CS, ML Mobley, DD Richter. 2009. A virtual "field test" of forest management carbon offset protocols: the influence of accounting. Mitigation and Adaptation of Strategies for Global Change. 14:667-690. doi:10.1007/s11027-009-9190-9
Galik, CS, DD Richter, ML Mobley, LP Olander, and BC Murray. 2008. A Critical Comparison and Virtual "Field Test" of Forest Management Carbon Offset Protocols. Climate Change Policy Partnership, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Suding, K, I Ashton, H Bechtold, WD Bowman, ML Mobley and R Winkleman. 2008. Plant and microbe contribution to community resilience in a directionally changing environment. Ecological Monographs 78:313-329. doi: 10.1890/07-1092.1
Submitted manuscripts
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, PR Heine, and SS Qian. Coarse-textured forest soils promote rapid and near-complete decomposition of dissolved organic matter. Global Change Biology, April 2011
Richter, DD, SS Andrews, AR Bacon, S Billings, CA Cambardella, N Cavallaro, JE DeMeester, AJ Franzluebbers, S Grandy, S Grunwald, J Gruver, AS Hartshorn, H Janzen, M Kramer, JK Ladha, K Lajtha, G Liles, D Markewitz, PJ Megonigal, A Mermut, ML Mobley, C Palm, C Rasmussen, CJ Richardson, DA Robinson, P Smith, C Stiles, RL Tate, A Thompson, AJ Tugel, H van Es, L West, S Wills, D Yaalon, and TM Zobeck. Soils and human-soil relations are changing rapidly: Proposals from SSSA's new Cross-Division Work Group on Soil Change. Soil Science Issues, April 2011
Awards and Grants
Duke University Graduate School travel award to AGU Fall Meeting, 2010, $500
ESA/SERDP Travel Award to ESA Annual Meeting, 2010, $500
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010, $15000
Duke University Graduate School travel award to SSSA Annual Meeting, 2009, $500
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2008
Nicholas School of the Environment travel award to SSSA Annual Meeting, 2008, $300
Duke University Predissertation Travel Award, 2007, $1300
Fellowships
Oosting Fellow, Duke University, 2011
E. Bayard Halsted Fellow, Duke University, 2009-2010
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, Duke University, 2009-2010
James B. Duke Fellow, Duke University, 2006-2010
Research Appointments
Visiting Researcher, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 2009
Research Assistant, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, 2008
Visiting Researcher, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK, 2007
Research Technician, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, 2004-2005
Research Technician, Duke University Department of Biology, Durham, NC, 2003-2004
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) participant,
University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, Nederland, CO, 2003
Research Technician, Nicholas School of the Environment,
Sequoia National Park, CA, 2002
Teaching
Certificate in College Teaching, anticipated 2011
Guest Lecturer on Tropical Soils: Soil and Ecosystems (Professor DD Richter), Duke University, 2011
Teaching Assistant: Soil and Ecosystems (Professor DD Richter), 2011
Teaching Assistant: Forest Field Skills (Professor DD Richter), 2010
Visiting Lab Instructor of Soil Microbial Ecology: Diversity of Life (Professor J MacFall), Elon University, 2009
Teaching Assistant: Advanced Soils Readings (Professor DD Richter), 2009
Teaching Assistant: Fire Ecology and Management (Professor DD Richter), 2008
Teaching Assistant: Biogeochemistry (Professor ES Bernhardt), 2007
Teaching Assistant: Fire Ecology and Management (Professor DD Richter), 2007
Teaching Assistant: Soil Resources (Professor DD Richter), 2006
NSF Teaching Fellow, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC, 2002
Oral Presentations
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, PR Heine, SA Billings. 2011. Soil Carbon Change during Fifty Years of Old-Field Forest Development. Oral Presentation. Oosting Ecology Seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Mobley, ML, PR Heine, SA Billings, K Lajtha, MG Kramer, DD Richter. 2010. Soil Carbon Change during Fifty Years of Old-Field Forest Development. Oral Presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, PR Heine. 2010. Accumulation and decay of coarse woody detritus over 50 years of pine forest development. Oral Presentation. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA.
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, S Qian. 2009. Transformations of pine forest-derived dissolved organic matter in a temperate zone soil. Oral Presentation. Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA.
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, S Qian. 2009. Transformations of pine forest-derived dissolved organic matter in a temperate zone soil. Oral Presentation. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM.
Mobley, ML and DD Richter. 2008. Fifty Years of Forest Carbon Budgets at the Calhoun Experimental Forest: What have we learned? Oral Presentation. Joint Meeting of the Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America. Houston, TX.
Poster Presentations
Mobley, ML and DD Richter. 2010. Wanted Dead or Alive: A search for 50 years of Calhoun Carbon. Poster Presentation. Duke University Graduate Student Research Day Symposium. Durham, NC.
Mobley, ML and DD Richter. 2009. Wanted Dead or Alive: A search for 50 years of Calhoun Carbon. Poster Presentation. Global Soil Change Workshop. Union County, SC.
Mobley, ML, DD Richter, R Fimmen, PR Heine, M Hofmockel, JA Jackson, J Li, and BT Roberts. 2007. Transformations of dissolved organic carbon compounds in a carbon-sequestering soil in an old field forest. Poster Presentation. Global Soil Change Workshop. Durham, NC.
Mobley, ML, WD Bowman and WH Schlesinger. 2005. Environmental and species controls over N cycling in the alpine. Poster Presentation. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Montreal, Quebec.
Mobley, ML, WD Bowman and WH Schlesinger. 2004. Environmental and species controls over N cycling in the alpine. Poster Presentation. Visible Thinking Undergraduate Research Symposium. Durham, NC.
Mobley, ML, WD Bowman and WH Schlesinger. 2003. Environmental and species controls over alpine ecosystem function. Poster Presentation. Triangle Undergraduate Research Symposium. Durham, NC.
Science Outreach
Volunteer: Meet a Scientist Program, Museum of Life + Science, Durham, NC, 2011
Organizer: Science Communication Workshop, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2011
Organizer: Public Discussion on Nanotechnology, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2011
Organizer: Science of Coffee, Museum of Life + Science, Durham, NC, 2010
Organizer: Periodic Tables Science Café, Durham, NC, 2008-2011
Mentor: Women and Math Mentoring Program, Raleigh, NC, 2008
University Service
Organizer: Duke University Sustainability in Teaching Workshop, 2011
Member: Education and Transportation subcommittees of Duke University
Campus Sustainability Committee, 2009-2011
Coordinator: Nicholas School of the Environment Graduate Student Wiki, 2009-2011
Development Committee: student webpages of the Nicholas School of the Environment website, 2009-2010
Development Committee: University Program in Ecology website, 2009-2010
Selection Committee: Duke University Program in Ecology Seminar, 2007-2011
Coordinator: Nicholas School of the Environment Graduate Seminar, 2007-2009
Professional Service
Organizer: Global Soil Change Workshop III, Duke University, 2011
Reviewer: Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 2011-present
Reviewer: Forest Ecology & Management, 2010-present
President: Duke Chapter of Sigma Xi, 2010-2011
Reviewer: Evans, Zander. 2011. Ecology of Dead Wood in the Southeast.
The Forest Guild, Santa Fe, NM. link
Reviewer: Geoderma, 209-present
Organizer: Global Soil Change Workshop II, Duke University, 2009
Vice President: Duke Chapter of Sigma Xi, 2007-2010
Organizer: Global Soil Change Workshop I, Duke University, 2007
Professional Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union, Biogeosciences Section
Earth Science Women's Network
Ecological Society of America, Biogeosciences Section, Student Section
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Duke University Chapter
Soil Science Society of America, S-7 Division
Advisors and collaborators
Dissertation Committee: Daniel deB Richter (advisor; Duke), Emily S Bernhardt (Duke), Norman L Christensen (Duke), Daniel Markewitz (UGeorgia)
Undergraduate Thesis Committee: William H Schlesinger (advisor; Duke), Robert B Jackson (Duke), Daniel deB Richter (Duke)
REU Research Advisor: William D Bowman (UColorado)
Collaborators: Allan Bacon (Duke); Sharon Billings (UKansas); William Bowman (UColorado); Ryan Fimmen (Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH); Christopher Galik (Duke); Paul Heine (Duke); Jason Jackson (Duke); Marc Kramer (UCalifornia-Santa Cruz); Kate Lajtha (Oregon State); Jianwei Li (UKansas); Brian Murray (Duke); Lydia Olander (Duke); Song Qian (Duke); Katherine Suding (UCalifornia-Irvine); Kimberly Townsend (Oregon State); Jennifer Wig (Oregon State)
