Tuesday, July 25 2017, 1:15 - 3:30 PM
Auditorium, Campus of the University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna
Human modifications of the global nitrogen cycle, triggered by huge increase in food demand to satisfy an increasing human population are the cause of dramatic environmental challenges. Excess nitrogen -introduced by chemical or organic fertilizers - not only affects climate or air/water quality, but is one of the central global challenges affecting ecosystem integrity and biodiversity. Concepts are in the making to reverse or prevent further detrimental effects on nature. This afternoon workshop will explore the effects of the nitrogen cycle in the environment and will discuss such concepts to optimize nitrogen use in food and energy production.
This event will be jointly organized by the Climate and Clean Air Commission and the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is a public outreach event of the International Conference on Nitrification (ICoN).
Speakers:
Eric Davidson, University of Maryland, USA
Jeanette Norton, Utah State University, USA
Jan Willem Erisman, Louis Bolk Institute, The Netherlands
Download invitation and program or see below:
| 1:15 – 1:30 pm | Introduction to special session: Sustainability and the N-cycle (in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and open to the public) Session chairs: Gerhard Herndl and Bess Ward |
| 1:30 – 2:15 pm | Keynote lecture. Eric Davidson (University of Maryland, USA). Manure happens: Unintended environmental consequences of nourishing over seven billion human omnivores |
| 2:15 – 2:45 pm | Jeanette Norton (Utah State University, USA). Managing nitrate in agricultural soils: organisms and process |
| 2:45 – 3:30 pm | Keynote lecture. Jan Erisman (Louis Bolk Institute, The Netherlands). Food for thought: Nitrogen too much of a vital resource? |
