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Position at Coweeta LTER:  Co-Investigator
Specialty:  Global change
Habitat:  Terrestrial ecosystems (forests and grasslands)
Organism:  Soil organisms (predominantly detrital based food webs), plants  
Core Area(s):  Biogeochemistry, global change, soil ecology, ecosystem carbon dynamics, microbial adaptation

Education:
B.Sc., University of Exeter (UK), Biological Sciences, 1992-1995
Ph.D., Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Merlewood, UK) & University of Exeter (UK), 1995-1999
Postdoctoral, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College (UK), 1999-2002
Postdoctoral, Duke University (USA), 2002-2004

Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, 2005-present

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Goddard M.R., Bradford, M.A. (2003). The adaptive response of a natural microbial population to carbon- and nitrogen-limitation. Ecology Letters 6, 594-598.

Smith, V.C., Bradford, M.A. (2003). Do non-additive effects on decomposition in litter-mix experiments result from differences in resource quality between litters? Oikos 102, 235-242.

Bradford, M.A., Jones, T.H., Bardgett, R.D., Black, H., Boag, B., Bonkowski, M., Cook, R., Eggers, T., Gange, A.C., Grayston, S.J., Kandeler, E., McCaig, A.E., Newington, J.E., Setälä, H., Staddon, P.L., Tordoff, G.M., Tshcerko, D., Lawton, J.H. (2002). Impacts of soil faunal community composition on model grassland ecosystems. Science 298, 615-618.

Bradford, M.A., Wookey, P.A., Ineson, P., Lappin-Scott, H.M. (2001). Controlling factors and effects of chronic nitrogen and sulphur deposition on methane oxidation in a temperate forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 33, 93-102.

Schumacher, H.B., Catovsky, S., Eggers, T., Newington, J.E., Tordoff, G.M, Bradford, M.A. Impacts of invasive plant species on riparian plant assemblages: interactions with elevated atmospheric CO₂ and nitrogen deposition. Submitted.

Synergistic Activities
Contributor to ‘The Royal Society Summer Exhibition’, a vehicle to communicate science to the UK media, general public and schools; Participant in multi-national, collaborative, experiments such as the Ecotron Species Composition and Global Change Experiment and the Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment (GLIDE); Frequent reviewer for ecology, global change and general science journals; Facilitated participation (while at Imperial) of undergraduate placement-students in professional meetings, publication of their results in international, peer-reviewed journals, and placement of these students into Ph.D. programs.