This spring we have numerous new team members starting and we recently also celebrated the research visit of Maryam. Maryam is a PhD student at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, and she was visiting researcher in our AgriChar research group projects since last September. During this research visit we collaborated on research on both short and long-term effects of biochars on soils, agricultural crops and nutrient recycling studies. Furthermore, in the last part of her visit she participated in analysing the cranberry project samples for nutrient content analyses. In the research seminar, she presented us the results from her visit here but shared insights also from her PhD project on "Effects of green (Eucalyptus sp. leaves) synthesized iron oxide phyto-nanoparticles and soil chemical factors on the behavior of Pb, Cd and Ni heavy metals in soils contaminated to total petroleum hydrocarbon and their uptake by grasses."
We are also happy to announce the beginning of a new PhD research project of Franco, who started this spring in the international EU Horizon Ferro-project focusing on sustainable lake restoration. His research explores innovative approaches to lake remediation by integrating sediment removal with nutrient recycling for sustainable agriculture. Franco investigates how nutrient-rich sediments can be reused as phosphorus (P) fertilizer, addressing both eutrophication and the challenge of finite P resources (main supervisor Associate Prof. Olga Tammeorg). Welcome Franco on board!
Furthermore, we are lucky to have several new MSc students, research assistants and interns joining us on finding out the effects nutrient-enhanced biochars have on greenhouse gas emissions from the soils as well as on the crop nutrient uptake and yield formation! Warm welcome to Sofi Paatelma, Ngoc Nguyen, Jenni Kurvonen, Tharangi Disnika and Anna Välkki! Dream team indeed to join Samuel, Zannatul and Zhouyang in our long-term biochar field experiments this growing season 2025!
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