Adjunct Faculty: Cesar Izaurralde

R. César Izaurralde is a laboratory fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is a soil scientist with more than 30 years of research experience in agronomy, soil science, and ecosystem modeling. His current research focuses on the areas of modeling the impacts of climate change and variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. Before joining PNNL in 1997, he 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 soil conservation and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems and environmental-economic modeling. In his native Argentina he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba.

Example publications:

Izaurralde, R.C., N.J. Rosenberg, and R. Lal. 2001. Mitigation of climatic change by soil carbon sequestration: issues of science, monitoring and degraded lands. Advances in Agronomy 70:1-75.

Post, W.M., R.C. Izaurralde, J.D. Jastrow, B.A. McCarl, J.E. Amonette, V.L. Bailey, P.M. Jardine, and J. Zhou. 2004. Carbon sequestration enhancement in U.S. soils. BioScience 54:895-908.