Our People - Environment

Expertise:

• Sustainable agriculture and agroforestry: food security, agrobiodiversity, climate change resilience, carbon sequestration, nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical, temperate and sub-arctic biomes
• Biochar: soil health, carbon sequestration, climate change resilience
• Waste to resources: closing the loop between food wastage and its ultimate use as a soil amendment
• Riparian (river bank) land-use systems in agricultural landscapes: determining carbon and nitrogen transformations in terrestrial and aquatic components of the river bank

Expertise:

• Peatland greenhouse gas fluxes in both natural and disturbed ecosystems
• Potential impact of climate change on peatlands through plot to ecosystem scale manipulation of temperature and water table and evaluating the subsequent changes in soil properties, plant community and greenhouse gas fluxes
• Peatland restoration
• Peatland methane dynamics including both fluxes and subsurface storage
• Organic matter decomposition