Ben Keane is a new staff member who is re-joining the University of York to examine nitrous oxide soil sequestration at Cors Fochno.
Ben Keane will join the research team of the long-term climate change experiment at Cors Fochno. He is re-joining the University of York on a NERC Independent Research Fellowship, where he will be working in the Department of Environment and Geography. Ben will join Nina Overtoom’s PhD supervisory team and the research at Cors Fochno. With the NERC Independent Research Fellowship, he will be investigating the potential of soils to draw down the greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide, and look at the biological controls behind the process.
Ben keane photo credit: ruth Wade
Ben Keane is a biogeochemist who specialises in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. In particular, he researches plant-soil-microbial interactions and how these influence biogenic GHG fluxes. Over the last few years Ben has completed postdoctoral positions at the Universities of York, Sheffield and Manchester, during which he has had the opportunity to work on several long-term ecological experiments. This has included studying the effect of drought in a Swedish peatland at the Skogaryd research catchment, and how grasslands will respond to future climate at Wardlow Hay Cop in the Peak District. Most recently he has been researching drought responses in Sphagnum moss and the implications for carbon storage, hydrology and wildfire. Ben is looking forward to contributing to the research at Cors Fochno.
GREENHOUSE project at Harwood Forest, August 2015. Credit: Unknown.
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