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