Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland
Signature Areas
- Environmental quality and sustainability
- Food security
- Climate change and soil carbon
- Soil degradation and restoration
Research Interests
- Soil processes and greenhouse effects
- Soil wetness and anaerobiosis
- Sustainable management of soil and water resources
- Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded soils including minelands, soil resilience, water quality, soil structure and compaction
- Conservation tillage
- Agroforestry
- Tropical agriculture
- Natural resources management with emphasis on food security and environmental quality
- Agricultural development in the Third World
Selected Presentations
Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change. Soil as a World Heritage
presented at Balti, Moldova, May 22-23, 2012
Restoring Land Degradation by Soil Carbon Sequestration
presented at the International Congress on Land Degradation and Challenges in Sustainable Soil Management, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, May 15-17, 2012
Soil Organic Matter Management for Sustainable Production and Climate Change
presented at the International Symposium on Mountain Resource Management in a Changing Environment, Aquatic Ecology Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 2-31, 2012
