Background
2006-present CSIRO Post-doctoral fellow, Division: Ensis (Forestry and Forest Products)
2005-present Honorary Lecturer UWA, Plant Biology
2004-2006 Post-doctoral fellow, Swedish Univ Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden
Project: Landscape Regulation of Nitrogen Export During Snowmelt
2005 University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Emphasis: Biogeochemistry of catchments with discontinuous permafrost
1993 B.A. Biology, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Senior Thesis: Nitrogen fixation in a desert stream
Research Interests
My research examines how landscape structure (e.g. forests and wetlands), human development (agriculture and urbanization), disturbance (wildfire, soil frost, and permafrost subsidence), and forest management (prescribed burning and thinning) influence hydrologic flowpaths and carbon, nutrient, and solute transport at the catchment scale. My current projects in Australia explore how land-use and forest management influence water yield, hydrologic flowpaths, and organic matter quantity and quality in Perth near-coast and drinking water catchments.
Publications
Petrone K.C., I. Buffam, H. Laudon. In press Hydrologic and biotic control of nitrogen export during snowmelt: a combined conservative and reactive tracer approach. Water Resources Research
Öquist M, K.C. Petrone, M. Nilsson, and L. Klemedtsson. In press Nitrification controls N2O production rates in a frozen boreal forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Petrone K.C., L.D. Hinzman, J.B. Jones, H. Shibata, and R.D. Boone. 2007. The influence of fire and permafrost on sub-arctic stream chemistry during storms. Hydrological Processes. 21, 423–434
Petrone, K.C., J.B. Jones, L.D. Hinzman, and R.D. Boone. 2006. Seasonal export of carbon, nitrogen, and major solutes from Alaskan catchments with discontinuous permafrost. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G02020, doi:10.1029/2005JG000055.
Hinzman, L. D., W. R. Bolton, K. C. Petrone, J. B. Jones, Jr., and P. C. Adams. 2006. Watershed hydrology and chemistry in the Alaskan boreal forest: The central role of permafrost. In: Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. (Eds F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla) Oxford University Press, New York. pp 269-284
Jones J.B., K.C. Petrone, J.C. Finlay, L.D. Hinzman, and W.R. Bolton. 2005. Nitrogen loss from watersheds of interior Alaska underlain with discontinuous permafrost. Geophysical Research Letters 32: L02401, 10.1029/2004GL021734.
Shibata H., K.C. Petrone, L.D. Hinzman, and R.D. Boone. 2003. The effect of fire on dissolved organic carbon and inorganic solutes in spruce forest in the permafrost region of interior Alaska. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 49: 25-29.
Petrone K.C., L.D. Hinzman, and R.D. Boone. 2000. Nitrogen and carbon dynamics of storm runoff in three sub-arctic streams. Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association, Water Resources in Extreme Environments, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1-3, 2000, pp 167-172.
Grimm N.B., and K.C. Petrone. 1997. Nitrogen fixation in a desert stream ecosystem. Biogeochemistry. 37: 33-61.
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