Matthew Ricker
https://mcricker.weebly.com/
https://soiljudging.wordpress.ncsu.edu
https://casm.cals.ncsu.edu/
Research focused on the morphology, genesis, classification, and functions of soils in relation to climate change and anthropogenic land use alterations. Dr. Ricker works on projects related to coastal zone soils and sea level rise, landscape reconstruction using multi-proxy approaches in depositional soils (floodplains/wetlands), soil carbon sequestration and storage, water quality improvement functions provided by riparian zones, ancient anthropogenic soils in the Maya region of Mesoamerica, and onsite water protection in North Carolina.
Dr. Ricker teaches an undergraduate/graduate level course in Soil Classification (SSC 452/551) as well as undergraduate Soil Judging for Land Evaluation (SSC 410).
Publications
- A rapid approach for ecological assessments in Carolina Bay wetlands that were previously converted to agriculture, FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE (2023)
- Soil organic carbon changes in a Carolina Bay wetland 15 years after restoration, SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL (2023)
- Assessment of artificial neural network to identify compositional differences in ultrahigh-resolution mass spectra acquired from coal mine affected soils, TALANTA (2022)
- Combining Survey, Soil Coring, and GIS Methods to Improve Reservoir Capacity Estimates in the Maya Lowlands, ADVANCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE (2022)
- Hydrology and Vegetation Relationships in a Carolina Bay Wetland 15 Years after Restoration, WETLANDS (2022)
- Quantification of geogenic carbon in anthropogenic alluvial coal soils of the Susquehanna River, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (2022)
- Comparison of soil health metrics for a Cecil soil in the North Carolina Piedmont, Soil Science Society of America Journal (2020)
- El urbanismo de baja densidad en las Tierras Bajas Mayas: El caso de El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala, Estudios de Cultura Maya (2019)
- Pollen Preservation in Alluvial Soils: Implications for Paleoecology and Land Use Studies, SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL (2019)
- Water Management within the Connected Xucub Reservoir and Northeast Tank Hydrologic Systems (2019)