YCNCC affiliated postdoc, Evelin Pihlap presents at the EPS postdoc seminar

December 19, 2022

YCNCC affiliated postdoc, Evelin Pihlap discussed one of her research projects at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences postdoctoral seminar on December 7th, 2022. Evelin’s research project titled ‘Soil Structure formation during landscape and agricultural reclamation’ presented a study on agriculturally reclaimed sites in Garzweiler (Germany), where fields with six different soil formation stages (0, 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 years after the first seeding of alfalfa) were selected to examine soil formation factors along with ongoing biogeochemical processes. Her research revealed that, “in contrast to theoretical expectations of how soil aggregates form, clay- and silt-sized particles mostly interacted only with inorganic carbon to form microaggregates, while soil organic matter largely bound together in the formation of macroaggregates.”