Address: Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW

Email: k.marsden@bangor.ac.uk

Background:

Karina Marsden is a Teaching and Research Lecturer in Soil Science at Bangor University. Prior to this she completed a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions Global Fellowship, working between the University of Melbourne, Australia and Bangor University. She also workd on the NERC funded Uplands-N2O project as a post-doctoral researcher after completing her PhD in Soil and Environmental Science at Bangor University.

Qualifications and Membership of Proffessional Bodies:

• B.Sc. (Hons), Environmental Science, Bangor University
• Ph.D, Soil and Environmental Science, Bangor University
• Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Member of the British Society of Soil Science and Chair of the Welsh Regional Soils Discussion Group
• Member of the EDI Committee

Karina Marsden's research interests include sustainable food production in a changing climate, nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems, gaseous emissions from soil (particularly N₂O and N₂), methods and techniques for monitoring gaseous emissions from soil and assessing spatial and temporal variability in emissions, rhizosphere processes and plant-soil-microbe interactions. She has 30 peer-reviewed publications, a h-index of 16 and >1000 citations (Google Scholar).

Module Organiser:

• DXX-3506 Current Issues in Environmental and Related Science
• DXX-3508 Environmental Issues
• DXX2002 Water, Air and Soil Pollution

Module Contributor:

• DXX-1001 Ecosystem Function and Services
• DXX-3305 Tenerife overseas field course