Objective
Soil organic carbon is acknowledged as a biosphere sink within article 3.3 and 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol Framework / Marrakech Accords, provided the sink can be maintained and demonstrated to be human induced. Knowledge exists on the restorative land use and recommended management practices required to return carbon to depleted soils. Soil carbon security needs to be addressed before soil carbon sequestration programmes can be advanced and deployed with confidence in schemes to ensure increase in national soil carbon stocks are secure. The scientific objective of this research is to understand the role of small-scale spatial organisation of soil organic carbon within topsoil with respect to the long-term security of the abiotic carbon store. The project will use a combination of hyperspectral imaging, chemometrics, X-ray fluorescence technology and pedometrics to build a new scientific understanding of soil carbon security. The training objectives of this research are to develop an advanced understanding of multivariate statistical techniques, developed at the University of Sydney, for spectroscopic analysis, pedotransfer and geospatial analysis that are necessary for data analysis. It is envisaged that this research work will transfer knowledge of pedometrics to the UCD Bioresources Research Centre, which is a centre of excellence in soil hyperspectral imaging at University College Dublin and will provide a protocol for the assessment of soil carbon security that will have potential for improving national scale carbon reporting and have potential for spin-out for commercial development.
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FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF
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4 DUBLIN
Ireland
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