Merkeb Woldu Bezabeh, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, will defend her PhD thesis “Strategies for increasing sustainability of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) production – Effect of composts, rotation and biofertilizers”, Wednesday 26 April 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis
“Strategies for increasing sustainability of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) production – Effect of composts, rotation and biofertilizers”
Norwegian title of the thesis
Strategier for å øke bærekraftig produksjon av hvete (Triticum aestivum L.) og fababønne (Vicia faba L.) – Effekt av kompost, vekstskifte og mikroorganismer som øker tilgjengeligheten av næringsstoffer
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture
“Management practices preventing soil erosion and conserving soil organic carbon stocks in sub-Saharan smallholder farming systems”
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Wednesday 26 April 2023, at 10:15 at Festsalen, Clock building
The disputation can be attended by using the following link in Zoom:
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Associate Professor Hanne Lakkenborg Kristensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Second opponent: Dr Patrick Musinguzi (Makerere University, Uganda)
Committee coordinator: Professor Åsgeir Almås, NMBU/MINA
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Susanne Eich-Greatorex (NMBU)
Co-supervisor(s): Professor Trine Aulstad Sogn (NMBU), and Professor Mitiku Haile (Mekelle University, Ethiopia)
Guidelines for attending:
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Do not use the camera.
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Mute your microphone.
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In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
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If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
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When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
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We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no