Society Awards and Honors
2005 Fellowships
César Izaurralde Elected Fellow of American Society of Agronomy
César Izaurralde is a Laboratory Fellow in the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland. Dr. Izaurralde earned his Agronomist Engineer degree from University of Córdoba (Argentina) and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Kansas State University.
Dr. Izaurralde's research focuses in three areas: 1) sustainable agriculture, 2) climate change impacts on agriculture and water resources and 3) climate change mitigation through soil carbon sequestration and reductions in soil emissions of nitrous oxide. He uses modeling and experimental approaches to understand the mechanisms of carbon stabilization in soil and explain production and evolution of nitrous oxide in soil. Dr. Izaurralde's research contributes to a larger program of integrated assessment of global change conducted at the Joint Global Change Research Institute.
Dr. Izaurralde has authored or co-authored 64 refereed journal articles, 26 book chapters, 56 abstracts, 5 computer programs, and 18 extension publications.
Dr. Izaurralde has been an active member of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America since 1982. He is also an active member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He currently serves as invited Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality. (announced 10/1/2005)