{"id":31,"date":"2015-11-03T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-site\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:48:27","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathe Todd-Brown, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-272 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2020\/05\/Todd-BrownWEB-5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Todd-Brown is a computational biogeochemist who uses mathematics and computer programs to understand how soil breaths. She focuses on soil informatics, model development and analysis to understand how soil carbon stocks will change in the next 100 years. Her work entails coding, working equations, and talking with lots of people about their science and experiments. Photo credit: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD &#8211; Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. 2013<\/li>\n<li>BS &#8211; Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College. 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, 2019-Present<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2015-2018<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oklahoma, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Research Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2007-2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Society Memberships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of: American Geophysical Union, International Soil Modeling Consortium<\/li>\n<li>Data coordinator, International Soil Carbon Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>My story<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">I am a computational biogeochemist who uses mathematics and computers to understand how soil breathes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Soils are a major source of natural carbon dioxide (the greenhouse gas driving current climate change); soils are expected to emit more carbon dioxide as climate gets warmer, potentially creating a vicious feedback cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">By using data from multiple worldwide studies and simplifying or expanding the complexity of soil models to interoperate that data, I strive to give society a better understanding of this critical climate response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I am passionate about data and open reproducible science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As we continue to move towards data-rich research, informatics skills to archive, increase discoverability, and harmonize different data streams become more and more important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Through my work with the International Soil Carbon Network, I\u2019m working with collaborators across the global to address harmonization issues in soils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I have been a Postdoctoral Fellow (2019) with Drs Jennifer Baltzer (Wilfred Laurier University) and Merriett Turetsky (INSTARR, Guelph University), a Distinguished Linus Pauling Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, a United States Department of Energy laboratory in Richland, Washington (2015-2018), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oklahoma (2014). I received my PhD (2013) from the University of California, Irvine from the Earth System Science Department. I also hold a Bachelor of Science (2004) from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California in Mathematics and I have worked as a software developer for bioinformatics tools at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Github account: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ktoddbrown\">https:\/\/github.com\/ktoddbrown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google scholar:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=4qJdWTsAAAAJ\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=4qJdWTsAAAAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ORCiD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3109-8130\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3109-8130<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education PhD &#8211; Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. 2013 BS &#8211; Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College. 2004 Professional Experience Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, 2019-Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019 Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2015-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oklahoma, 2014 Research Assistant, Massachusetts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ktoddbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}