[AACS] Two postdoctoral positions on regenerative management, soil health, soil C stabilization at UC Davis

[Diego J. Cosentino]

Hola,

Dos posibilidades para hacer postdocs en California en salud de suelos 
de Vides.
No encuentran candidatos.

Fecha de vencimiento muy próxima

sds
Diego Cosentino


We are still looking for two postdoctoral scholars to join our team at 
the department of Land, Air and Water Resources at the University of 
California Davis as part of a large-scale project on regenerative 
vineyard management and soil health. Please forward this information to 
any interested candidates. More information on the project and the 
positions can be found below.

Best regards,


Cristina Lazcano

Postdoc #1: Socioeconomics of regenerative farming and soil 
health:https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04797

Postdoc #2: Soil Health and C stabilization under regenerative 
farming:https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04829

*Application deadline June 30^th !*

Please forward any questions toclazcano en ucdavis.edu 
<mailto:clazcano en ucdavis.edu>

*Project summary*

The goal of this project is to determine the efficacy of regenerative 
agriculture to build soil C, soil health and the effects on crop yield 
and quality. Aware of the importance of soils for climate change 
mitigation and consumer demands for sustainability, the agricultural 
industry is looking to increase soil health by using regenerative 
agricultural practices. Nevertheless, farmers still lack clear 
guidelines on how to manage soil health to effectively sequester C, how 
to monitor changes, and how increasing soil C will impact crop yield and 
quality. Focusing on the winegrape industry, this project addresses 
these pressing issues by: (i) developing sampling guidelines to 
accurately estimate soil C abundance in vineyards; (ii) studying the 
relationship between historical soil management and soil C, to estimate 
the C abatement potential of RA vineyards of the US West Coast; (iii) 
assessing the effects of regenerative practices (cover crops, compost, 
tillage and sheep grazing) in soil heath, soil C, crop yield and quality 
in a series of field trials across an edaphoclimatic gradient from the 
Willamette Valley (Oregon) to Santa Barbara (California); and (iv) 
working closely with growers to gather existing knowledge on site 
specific limitations and barriers to adoption, and generate new 
knowledge on the definition, indicators and assessment of soil health in 
this specialty crop. For this, we will follow a multi-scale approach 
ranging from high density sampling within single vineyards, to 
large-scale sampling across vineyards on the US West Coast. By 
leveraging the strong expertise of the research team and the large 
extension of vineyards owned by Jackson Family Wines along the US West 
Coast, this project will address many of the current open questions in 
the science of soil health which will ultimately lead to the increased 
adoption of regenerative agricultural practices by the agricultural 
industry at large.

Cristina Lazcano, PhD

/Assistant Professor of Soil Ecology/

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources

University of California Davis

One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616

https://lazcano.faculty.ucdavis.edu/

Office hours Mondays and Wednesdays 2-4pm

https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/91358753113

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