PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
José Luis Munera-Echeverri, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis ”Effects of conservation farming and biochar on carbon and nitrogen cycling in light textured soils in the sub-humid tropics” on Friday 7 June, 2019.
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Virkning av conservation farming og biokull på karbon- og nitrogendynamikk i sandig jord i subtropiske klimasoner"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
“The 4 per 1000 initiative for the tropics: challenges and opportunities for soil carbon sequestration”
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday June 7 2019 at 12:15 hrs, U215, Festsalen, Clock Building, Ole Sverres plass 1, NMBU Ås.
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Dr. Daniel Rasse, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomic Research (NIBIO), Ås
Second opponent: Dr. Lydia Mumbi Chabala, University of Zambia
Committee coordinator: Professor Tore Krogstad, MINA, NMBU
Supervisors:
Main supervisor: Dr. Vegard Martinsen, MINA, NMBU
Co-supervisor(s): Professor Jan Mulder, MINA, NMBU, associate professor Line Tau Strand, MINA, NMBU and professor Gerard Cornelissen, MINA, NMBU
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library
Thesis number 2019:41, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1600-0