DrMagdalena Necpalova
Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Ad Astra Fellow)
School of Agriculture and Food Science
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- Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Ad Astra Fellow)School of Agriculture and Food Science
- + 353 1 716 7730
- University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in biogeochemical cycling within cropland and grassland agro-ecosystems. My early modelling research at Wisconsin University included: i) modelling of soil organic carbon and soil N2O emissions from corn-based cropping systems under various managements in North-Central United States using the DayCent processed-based ecosystem model; ii) parameterization of DayCent using an inverse modelling approach along with sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of soil N2O predictions.
At ETH as a member of the Sustainable Agroecosystem research group, I worked for the COMET-Global and CLIMATE CAFÉ projects (funded by FACCE-JPI). My research activities included parametrization of DayCent for common crops and management practices and modelling soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, removals and crop productivity in Swiss and European cropping systems across multiple space and time scales. The focus was mainly on the assessment of the biophysical potential of alternative management practices to increase yield, soil organic carbon and reduce soil GHG emissions in comparison with conventional management practices at the site and regional scale. In July 2017, I started to work for a SNF project assessing the potential of integrated soil fertility management to increase productivity, yield stability and soil fertility under current and future climate conditions in maize cropping systems in Kenya.
Currently, I am interested in DayCent modelling of GHG emissions from Irish agricultural soils including croplands and grasslands at a farm management scale and policy level and designing agricultural systems that trade off long-term GHG emissions and production in a robust way across a wide range of soil and climate conditions that can be applied to national climate change mitigation strategies and environmental policies.
Further interests:
Impact of land use change in response to climate change on ecosystem services and soil GHG.
Linking model outputs to socioeconomic, farm gate and land use models to assess environmental, and socio-economic trade-offs and co-benefits.
Climate change adaptation strategies through management alternation on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa.
DayCent improvements and prediction uncertainty assessments.
At ETH as a member of the Sustainable Agroecosystem research group, I worked for the COMET-Global and CLIMATE CAFÉ projects (funded by FACCE-JPI). My research activities included parametrization of DayCent for common crops and management practices and modelling soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, removals and crop productivity in Swiss and European cropping systems across multiple space and time scales. The focus was mainly on the assessment of the biophysical potential of alternative management practices to increase yield, soil organic carbon and reduce soil GHG emissions in comparison with conventional management practices at the site and regional scale. In July 2017, I started to work for a SNF project assessing the potential of integrated soil fertility management to increase productivity, yield stability and soil fertility under current and future climate conditions in maize cropping systems in Kenya.
Currently, I am interested in DayCent modelling of GHG emissions from Irish agricultural soils including croplands and grasslands at a farm management scale and policy level and designing agricultural systems that trade off long-term GHG emissions and production in a robust way across a wide range of soil and climate conditions that can be applied to national climate change mitigation strategies and environmental policies.
Further interests:
Impact of land use change in response to climate change on ecosystem services and soil GHG.
Linking model outputs to socioeconomic, farm gate and land use models to assess environmental, and socio-economic trade-offs and co-benefits.
Climate change adaptation strategies through management alternation on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa.
DayCent improvements and prediction uncertainty assessments.
GRANTS
- OTHER GRANTClimateCropping: Climate Smart Management for Resilient European Cropping SystemsDept. Agriculture Food and the Marine (Dafm)1 Jun 2023 - 31 May 2027People funded by this grant:
- O'Rourke S,
- Necpalova M