Dr. R. Cesar Izaurralde

 
Education

PhD  Soils, Kansas State University, 1985
MS   Soils, Kansas State University, 1981
BS   Agronomy, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1972

Research Interests

César Izaurralde is a staff scientist with the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His current research focuses in the areas of modeling (a) the impacts of climate change and variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and (b) carbon sequestration in and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils.

Before joining PNNL in 1997, Dr. Izaurralde served as Chair of Resource Conservation in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, Canada. There he taught courses in soil conservation and conducted research in the areas of (a) soil conservation and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems and (b) environmental-economic modeling. In his native country Argentina, he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina.

Dr. Izaurralde received two PNNL Outstanding Performance Awards (1999, 2002) and a Fulbright Fellowship (1980-1981). He was Invited Professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1996, 1999) and at Universidad Católica de Córdoba (1977-1980), both in Argentina. He is a member of the Soil Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.