🌱 Exciting News on the Horizon! 🌱
Keep your fingers crossed! I'm just a few steps away from securing my second research grant this year.
If you're fascinated by the trade-offs between carbon sequestration, SOM decomposition, and soil respiration, stay tuned. I'll be leading an unique project to assess the impact of environmental variability on CO2 soil emissions in Dfb-climate zone agricultural conditions.
A huge shout-out to my amazing scientific mentors, Chantal Hendriks and Örjan Berglund, who inspired my to apply for the personal grant. They will be co-authoring the papers resulting from this project.
📊 What’s the Plan? 📊
For the first time ever, we’ll simultaneously examine five soil types: Histosols, Luvisols, Podzols, Histosols, and Gleysols under three distinct carbon management strategies on each soil type while accounting for groundwater fluctuations and precipitation effects on oxygen conditions.
🧠 Your Thoughts? 🧠
Which soil do you think will show higher susceptibility to DOC leaching? Which will experience higher SOM decomposition? And which has the highest carbon sequestration potential? Will it be the organic matter-rich Histosol on peatlands, the sandy Podzol with low cation exchange capacity, or perhaps the water-saturated Gleysol?
I’m not sure if I’ll find time to rest in the upcoming months 😄 as I’m thrilled to start my postdoc at SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences soon! Balancing both exciting research grants and my postdoc will be challenging, but I’m eagerly looking forward to it. Brace yourself for the most detailed SOC balances ever!
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Professor at Utah State University
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