Dr Kara Marsden
Teaching & Research Lectureship in Soil Science

Affiliations
Links
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zDUgYtIAAAAJ&hl=en
Google Scholar Profile - https://twitter.com/dr_k_marsden
Contact info
Address: Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW
Email: k.marsden@bangor.ac.uk
Contact Info
Address: Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW
Email: k.marsden@bangor.ac.uk
Overview
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 Britsh Ecological Society
- Member of the British Society of Soil Science
Research
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 22 peer-reviewed publications, a h-index of 12 and 615 citations (Google Scholar).
Teaching and Supervision
Module Organiser:
- DXX-3506 Current Issues in Environmental and Related Science
- DXX-3508 Environmental Issues
Module Contributor:
- SNS-0001 Foundation Year Project
- DXX-2002 Water, Air and Soil Pollution
- DXX-3305 Tenerife overseas field course
Research outputs (21)
- Published
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Livestock-induced N2O emissions may limit the benefits of converting cropland to grazed grassland as a greenhouse gas mitigation strategy for agricultural peatlands
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Increasing the productivity of an upland pasture with the least environmental impacts
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review