Long time no see!
Past weeks we had numerous meetings, lunches and dinners to catch up with Dr. Subin Kalu, who was visiting us first time over two years. After he defended his doctoral degree in Helsinki, since 2023, he has been intensively working in North Carolina State University, USA, and doing some fascinating fundamental science about destabilization of soil carbon after saltwater intrusion in coastal agricultural soils, and as one of the articles of that field was recently published (see here), we had chances to discuss these and other insights from Subin in more detail in our research group seminar. Naturally, we progressed also the numerous articles we're currently collaborating with Subin, about biochar and lake sediment recycling research, and had chance to visit the labs and greenhouses. In the latter, MSc student groups of Department of Agricultural Sciences are currently setting up their own practical experiments on nutrient recycling, cold and hot stresses of plants. Was nice meeting up- and hopefully we'll see soon again!
