Associate Professor Johannes Lehmann
Department of soil biogeochemistry and soil fertility management, Cornell University
Johannes was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.
Johannes is Associate Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Soil Fertility Management at Cornell University. He received his graduate degrees in Soil Science at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. During the past ten years, he has focused on nano-scale investigations of soil organic matter, the biogeochemistry of black carbon and sequestration in soil.
Johannes, a member of the steering group of the US National Soil Carbon Network, has testified in the US congress and briefed the President's council of advisors, was part of Workgroup 2 on Monitoring and Assessment of Sustainable Land Management of UNCCD and is on the editorial boards of Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, Plant and Soil, Carbon Management and Annals of Environmental Science.
We caught up with Johannes Lehmann during his visit to the US Studies Centre.
