Jennifer Pett-Ridge

2030 1 publication

• Schmidt, B., J. Stolaroff, S. Baker, N. Ellebracht, W. Kirkendall, A. Simon, G. Peridas, E. Slessarev, J. Pett-Ridge, S. Pang, M. Langholtz and R. Aines, Carbon Negative by 2030: CO2 removal options for an early corporate buyer February, 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States).

2025 7 publications

• Slessarev, E., J. Pett-Ridge, K. Min, A.A. Berhe, S. Das, R.D. Jackson, J.D. Jastrow, M. Kan, S. Kumar, T. Longbottom, K.J. McFarlane, E. Oerter, B.K. Richards, G.P. Robertson, G. Sanford, E.E. Nuccio. Tracing the effects of a deeply rooted grass, Panicum virgatum, on soil organic carbon cycling in a range of environments across the USA. bioRxivhttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.01.668182 Earth Futures (in review)
• Trubl, G., S. Roux, M. Kellom, D. Vyshenska, A. Tomatsu, K. Singh, J. A. Kimbrel, E. Eloe-Fadrosh, R. R. Malmstrom, J. Pett-Ridge, S.J. Blazewicz. Tracking persistence and dynamics of active soil viruses with SIP-Viromics. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.25.655894 mSystems (in review)
• Sokol, N.W., M.M. Foley, S.J. Blazewicz, N. DiDonato, K. Estera-Molina, M. Firestone, A. Greenlon, B.A. Hungate, W. Kew, L. Paša-Tolić, E. Slessarev, J. Pett-Ridge. Drought reduces formation, but enhances persistence, of mineral-associated organic matter in a semi-arid grassland soil. bioRxivhttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.23.655838 Global Change Biology (in review)
• Schwartz, E., M. Hayer, R.L. Mau, K. Nantz, B.A. Hungate, S. Blazewicz, G.Allen, E. Morrisey, B. Tripathi, J. Pett-Ridge. Internal DNA standards for isopycnic centrifugation of environmental DNA in quantitative stable isotope probing. bioRxivhttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.27.661829, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (in review)
• Fitzpatrick, R., B. Hungate, M. Power, M. Foley, T. Samo, E. Schwarz, M. Hayer, P.K. Weber, J. Pett-Ridge, J. Marks. Composition, growth, succession, and function in the Cladophora microbiome: insights from quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (qSIP) and NanoSIMS imaging. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.12.652736 Environmental Microbiology(in review)
• Foley, M., N. Sokol, B. Stone, S. Blazewicz, K. Estera-Molina, A. Greenlon, M. Hayer, J. Kimbrel, J. Pett-Ridge, B. Hungate. Specialist-generalist trade-offs in microbial growth rates across soil habitats. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.20.655198 mBio (in response to review)
• Mayer, A., J. Dumortier, Z. Hausfather, J. Pett-Ridge, E. Slessarev. Cost of cooling: The value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world. CDRxiv. https://doi.org/10.70212/cdrxiv.2025348.v1. Environmental Science & Technology Manuscript ID: es-2025-05767s (in response to review)

2024 2 publications

• Penev, P.I., K. Estera-Molina, G.M. Allen, R. Sachdeva, S. Lei, K.K. Law, J. Hoff, S.J. Blazewicz, J. Pett-Ridge, J.F. Banfield. The active subset of grassland soil microbiomes changes with soil depth, water availability and prominently features predatory bacteria and episymbionts bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629468 (in review)
• Trubl, Gareth, Ikaia Leleiwi, Ashley Campbell, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Amrita Bhattacharyya, Robert Riley, Rex Malstrom, Steven J. Blazewicz, Jennifer Pett-Ridge. Soil redox conditions drive virus-host community dynamics and plant biomass degradation in tropical rainforest soils. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.13.612973. Microbiome(in review)

2023 2 publications

• Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Hamed Ziad Ammar, Alvina Aui, Mark Ashton, Sarah E. Baker, Bruno Basso, Mark Bradford, Alexander P. Bump, Ingrid Busch, Edna Rodriguez Calzado, Jackson W. Chirigotis, Nicolas Clauser, Sinéad Crotty, Nicholas Dahl, Tao Dai, Mark Ducey, Jerome Dumortier, Nathan C. Ellebracht, Ramon Gil Egui, Ames Fowler, Katerina Georgiou, Diamantoula Giannopoulos, Hannah Goldstein, Thomas Harris. Dermot Hayes, Chad Hellwinckel, Alina Ho, Mu Hong, Susan Hovorka, Elwin Hunter-Sellars, Whitney Kirkendall, Sara Kuebbing, Matthew Langholtz, Mark Layer, Ian Lee, Reid Lewis, Wenqin Li, Weier Liu, Jimena Terrazas Lozano, Abby Lunstrum, Allegra C. Mayer, Kimberley K. Mayfield, Wilson McNeil, Peter Nico, Anastasia O’Rourke, Simon H. Pang, Keith Paustian, George Peridas, Helene Pilorge, Maxwell Pisciotta, Lydia Price, Peter Psarras, G. Philip Robertson, William Joe Sagues, Daniel L. Sanchez, Corinne D. Scown, Briana Mordick Schmidt, Eric W. Slessarev, Noah Sokol, Alexander J. Stanley, Amy Swan, Crystal Toureene, Andrew A. Wong, Mark Mba Wright, Yuan Yao, Bingquan Zhang, Yao Zhang, and Roger D. Aines. Roads to Removal: Options for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dec 2023, https://doi.org/10.2172/2301853
• (multi-author) Soil Biodiversity in California Agriculture: Framework and Indicators for Soil Health Assessment, Prepared by the Belowground Biodiversity Advisory Committee (BBAC) For the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), July 2023

2022 3 publications

• (multi-author) Microbes in Models: Integrating Microbes into Earth System Models for Understanding Climate Change: Report on an American Academy of Microbiology Virtual Colloquium held on Dec. 6 and 8, 2022. Washington (DC): American Society for Microbiology; 2023. https://asm.org/Reports/Microbes-in-Models-Integrating-Microbes-into-Earth
• (multi-author) BERAC. 2022. U.S. Scientific Leadership Addressing Energy, Ecosystems, Climate, and Sustainable Prosperity: Report from the BERAC Subcommittee on International Benchmarking, DOE/SC-0208. M. McCann and P. Reed, eds. Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee. DOI:10.2172/1895129.
• Pett-Ridge, J., M. Ashton, S. E. Baker, B. Basso, M. Bradford, H. Breunig, A. Bump, I. Busch, E. Rodriguez Calzado, J. W. Chirigotis, M. Ducey, J. Dumortier, N. C. Ellebracht, R. Gil Egui, A. Fowler, K. Georgiou, H. Goldstein, D. Hayes, C. Hellwinckel, S. Hovorka, E. Hunter-Sellars, W. Kirkendall, S. Kuebbing, P. Lamers, M. Langholtz, M. Layer, R. Lewis, W. Li, A. Mayer, K. K. Mayfield, P. Nico, S. H. Pang, K. Paustian, G. Peridas, H. Pilorge, S. Ponomareva, L. Price, P. Psarras, G. P. Robertson, J. W. Sagues, D. Sanchez, C. Scown, B. M. Schmidt, E. W. Slessarev, A. J. Stanley, A. Swan, C. Toureene, A. A. Wong, E. Woods, M. Mba Wright, Y. Zhang, R. D. Aines, Initial Considerations for Large-Scale Carbon Removal in the United States: Description of Methods, Feedstocks, and Constraints, March, 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2020 1 publication

• Sarah E. Baker, Joshuah K. Stolaroff, George Peridas, Simon H. Pang, Hannah M. Goldstein, Felicia R. Lucci, Wenqin Li, Eric W. Slessarev, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Frederick J. Ryerson, Jeff L. Wagoner, Whitney Kirkendall, Roger D. Aines, Daniel L. Sanchez, Bodie Cabiyo, Joffre Baker, Sean McCoy, Sam Uden, Ron Runnebaum, Jennifer Wilcox, Peter C. Psarras, Hélène Pilorgé, Noah McQueen, Daniel Maynard, Colin McCormick, Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California, January, 2020, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory https://doi.org/10.2172/1597217

2018 2 publications

• Pett-Ridge, J. (2018) Deeply rooted: evaluating plant rooting depth as a means for enhanced soil carbon sequestration. Conference paper: International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions Gothenburg, Sweden.
• (multi-author) Building a New Carbon Economy: An Innovation Plan, September 2018. Carbon 180 (formerly Center for Carbon Removal)

2017 2 publications

• (multi-author) Grand Challenges Workshop Report, March 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC)
• (multi-contributor) “Microbes and Climate Change,” April, 2017, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2016 2 publications

• (multi-author) Technologies for Characterizing Molecules to Mesoscale Workshop Report, Sept 2016 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
• (multi-author) Microbes and Climate Change, report on an American Academy of Microbiology and American Geophysical Union Colloquium held in Washington, DC, March 2016

2015 1 publication

• Groffman, P.M., AB Box, PJ Bohlen, L. Pardo, J. Pett-Ridge et al. 2015. Long-term measurements of microbial biomass and activity at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, 1994 – present. Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

2014 1 publication

• Robertson, G.P, J. Pett-Ridge, M. Udvardi. U.S. DOE. 2014. Research for Sustainable Bioenergy: Linking Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences, Workshop Report, DOE/SC-0167. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Other 7 publications

• Terrer, C.*, E.C. Fricke*, S. Bell, R. Jia, S. Cook-Patton, S. Ren, M.E. Macfarlane, J. Sanderman, A.F.A. Pellegrini, C.J. Nolan, R.B. Jackson, J. Pett-Ridge, J.B. Yu, S. Cerasoli, Y. Zou, P. Ciais, Y. Xu, H. Yin, W. Jiao, A. Rosel, C. Folberth, C. Schillaci, P. Dutt, C. Barriocana, D. Gol, C. Cruz, A.C. Koberle. Soils match biomass carbon gains across restored farmlands. Nature (in review)
• Calabrese, S., S. Sadik Tulip, S. Perez Castro, A. Thompson, J. Pett-Ridge, Z. Nikolov. Fluxes vs. pools: connecting temperature dependence and sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics across timescales Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences (in review)
• Hedlund, B.P, T. Alvarado, T.R. Murphy, A. Torres, A.M. Blocker, C.O. Seymour, D. Lai, X. Mayali, A. Muok, R. Xiao, E. Levon, J.T. Phoenix, K. Mazdra, T. Sons, J. Ledesma, J. Jiries, A. Manriquez, A. Vamvakas, A. Rivera Martinez, A. Camacho, Z. Owerkowicz, J. Lacy, P.K. Weber, A. Briegel, D.P. Moser, J. Pett-Ridge, J.A. Dodsworth, and S.D. Hamilton-Brehm. Folate auxotrophy in Atribacterota reveals pervasive microbialcultivation problem.Nature Microbiology (in review)
• Ye, Z., Y. Yang, J. Kuang, C.T. Bates, A. Escalas, D. Ning, L. Wu, S. Liu, S. Deng, J. Lei, X. Chen, J. Pett-Ridge, M. Saha, K. Craven, M. Firestone, and J. Zhou. Bioenergy cropping reduces spatiotemporal scaling of soil bacterial biodiversity. PNAS(in review)
• Lai*, D., D. Mosier, M. Palmer, X. Mayali, J. Johnston, W. Saldivar, J.K. Covington, J.-Y. Jiao, R. Murali, C.O. Seymour, L. Liu, Z.-S. Hua, W.-J. Li, P.K. Weber, J. Pett-Ridge, D.R. Colman, E.S. Boyd, T. Nunoura, J.A. Dodsworth* and B.P. Hedlund. Branched-chain amino acid specialization drove diversification within Calditenuaceae (Caldarchaeia) and enables their cultivation. Nature Communications(in review)
• Chuckran, P. F., S. J. Blazewicz, J. Ceja-Navarro, J. Pett-Ridge, E. Schwartz, P. Dijkstra. Unique relationships between gene traits and transcriptional response under growth, starvation, and extreme heat in an agricultural soil. PeerJ (in response to review).
• Ceja-Navarro, J.A., P. Kosina, D. Patel, G. Genco, A. Byer, N. Xiao, D. Ning, K.H. Wang, S.E. Celniker, J. Zhou, P. Dijkstra, B.A. Hungate, J. Pett-Ridge,E.L. Brodie. Cross-domain microbial network resilience increases in response to ecosystem retrogression Microbiological Research(in response to review)