Deadline: Open until filled

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the environmental research team in the Sustainable Livestock Program to measure nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in smallholder mixed-crop and pastoral livestock systems.

The focus of this position will be on direct measurements and indirect estimations of GHG and ammonia emissions and nutrient cycling in different manure management systems and across soils of various land-use types (e.g., grassland, cropland, forest). The aim is to determine the magnitude of emission sources from livestock-agroecosystems, and to better understand the underlying processes and their controls. Furthermore, the position will test management interventions to reduce GHG emissions and other pathways of nutrient loss (e.g., nitrate leaching, ammonia volatilization) from livestock manure to improve on-farm nutrient circularity.

Finally, the postdoc will develop nutrient budgets of livestock agroecosystems to understand the balance of carbon and nutrient flows entering (e.g. feed purchase, fertilizer inputs, BNF) and leaving (e.g. gaseous & leaching losses, sales of livestock & manure) the farm, as well as on-farm nutrient transformation (e.g. soil nitrogen cycling processes, decomposition).

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