Soil Conservation and Management

Humberto Blanco is a Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He got his B.Sc. in Soil Science from the Technical Univ. of Oruro, Bolivia in 1990. Then, he received his M.Sc. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2003 in Soil Conservation and Applied Soil Physics from the Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. He worked at the Ohio State Univ. as a Research Scientist from 2004 to 2007. In 2008, he accepted a faculty position at Kansas State University. In 2012, he moved to the Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln. His appointment is 60% research and 40% teaching. He teaches Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics. His research work focuses on the characterization of soil processes and properties, water and wind erosion, water quality parameters, soil water management, soil-water-nutrient-plant relationships, soil C sequestration and C dynamics, and greenhouse gas emissions under different management practices. Such practices include cover crops, cover crop grazing, conservation tillage (e.g., no-till, reduced till), cropping systems, organic farming, crop residue removal for livestock and biofuel production, inorganic fertilization, conservation buffers, dedicated biofuel crops (e.g., perennial warm-season grasses), biochar, and others. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and four books. His h-index is 53. His research work frequently appears in the CSA News. He was an invited speaker to several countries (Germany, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, and Argentina). He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. He has received several awards including the Shirley Phillips No-till Award (Univ. of Kentucky), Best Paper Awards, Young Scholar Award of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), and others. He served as Chair of the Soil and Water Management and Conservation Division of SSSA. He is currently a Technical Editor for Agronomy Journal and he has served as an Associate Editor forvarious journals.

Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration at The Ohio State University. He received B.Sc. from PAU, Ludhiana (1963); M.Sc. from IARI, New Delhi (1965);and Ph.D. from OSU, Columbus, Ohio (1968). He was Sr. Research Fellow at University of Sydney (1968-69), soil Physicist at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria (1970-87), and Professor of Soil Science at OSU (1987 to date). He has authored/co-authored over 1000 refereed journal articles and 550 book chapters, and written and edited/co-edited 100 books. He received an Honoris Causa degree from 9 universities throughout Europe, USA, South America, and Asia; the Medal of Honor from UIMP, Santander, Spain (2018); the Distinguished Service Medal of the IUSS (2018); and is fellow of 5 professional societies. Dr. Lal has mentored 117 graduate students and 185visiting scholars. He was President of the WASWC(1987-1990), ISTRO (1988-1991), SSSA (2006-2008), and IUSS (2017-2018). He holds the Chair in Soil Science and is the Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainability Issues for IICA, and member of the 2021 U.N. Food System Summit Science Committee and Action Tracks 1 & 3. Dr. Lal is laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize (2018), Glinka World Soil Prize (2018), Japan Prize (2019), U.S. Awasthi IFFCO Prize (2019), Arrell Global Food Innovation Award (2020), World Food Prize (2020), India's Padma Shri Award (2021).He is an honorary member of the Moldova Academy of Sciences (2022), and a member of the Academia Europaea(2022).He received the Presidential Award of SSSA(2022), and the IPCC-Nobel Peace Prize Certificate (2007).The PAU, Ludhiana, named its Soil Science and Agronomy building as Rattan Lal Laboratories in 2020.He was listed in the "Greetings Friends" poem published in 26 December 2022 issue of New Yorker.

Humberto Blanco 是內布拉斯加-林肯大學農藝與園藝系的土壤管理與應用土壤物理學教授。他於1990年在玻利維亞奧魯羅技術大學獲得土壤科學學士學位，隨後於1995年獲得碩士學位，2003年獲得博士學位，專攻土壤保育與應用土壤物理學，學校為密蘇里大學哥倫比亞校區。他於2004年至2007年間在俄亥俄州立大學擔任研究科學家，並於2008年接受堪薩斯州立大學的教職。2012年，他轉至內布拉斯加大學林肯校區任教。他的職位分配為60%研究和40%教學，教授土壤管理與應用土壤物理學。其研究工作專注於土壤過程與性質的特徵化、水與風的侵蝕、水質參數、土壤水管理、土壤-水-養分-植物關係、土壤碳封存與碳動態，以及在不同管理實踐下的溫室氣體排放。這些實踐包括覆蓋作物、覆蓋作物放牧、保育耕作（例如，免耕、減耕）、作物系統、有機農業、為牲畜和生物燃料生產而移除的作物殘留物、無機施肥、保育緩衝區、專用生物燃料作物（例如，常綠暖季草）、生物炭等。他已發表超過150篇經過同行評審的文章和四本書籍，H指數為53。他的研究工作經常出現在CSA News上。他曾受邀在多個國家（德國、加拿大、烏克蘭、巴西和阿根廷）演講。他是美國土壤科學學會的會士，並獲得多項獎項，包括肯塔基大學的Shirley Phillips免耕獎、最佳論文獎、美國土壤科學學會（SSSA）青年學者獎等。他曾擔任SSSA土壤與水管理及保育部門的主席，目前是《Agronomy Journal》的技術編輯，並曾擔任多個期刊的副編輯。

Rattan Lal，博士，是俄亥俄州立大學土壤科學的傑出大學教授及CFAES Rattan Lal碳管理與封存中心的主任。他於1963年在PAU，盧迪亞納獲得學士學位；1965年在新德里IARI獲得碩士學位；1968年在俄亥俄州立大學哥倫比亞校區獲得博士學位。他曾於1968至1969年擔任悉尼大學的高級研究員，1970至1987年擔任尼日利亞伊巴丹IITA的土壤物理學家，並自1987年至今擔任俄亥俄州立大學的土壤科學教授。他已撰寫或共同撰寫超過1000篇經過審核的期刊文章和550章書籍，並撰寫及編輯或共同編輯100本書籍。他獲得了來自歐洲、美國、南美和亞洲9所大學的榮譽博士學位；2018年獲得西班牙桑坦德UIMP的榮譽獎章；2018年獲得國際土壤科學聯合會的傑出服務獎章；並且是5個專業學會的會士。Lal博士指導了117名研究生和185名訪問學者。他曾擔任WASWC（1987-1990）、ISTRO（1988-1991）、SSSA（2006-2008）和IUSS（2017-2018）的會長。他擔任土壤科學主席，並是IICA可持續性問題的友好大使，還是2021年聯合國糧食系統峰會科學委員會及行動軌道1和3的成員。Lal博士是GCHERA世界農業獎（2018）、Glinka世界土壤獎（2018）、日本獎（2019）、美國Awasthi IFFCO獎（2019）、Arrell全球食品創新獎（2020）、世界糧食獎（2020）和印度Padma Shri獎（2021）的得主。他是摩爾多瓦科學院的榮譽會員（2022），也是歐洲學院的成員（2022）。他獲得了SSSA的總統獎（2022）和IPCC諾貝爾和平獎證書（2007）。PAU，盧迪亞納於2020年將其土壤科學與農藝大樓命名為Rattan Lal實驗室。他在2022年12月26日的《紐約客》上發表的《Greetings Friends》詩中被列名。