Overview
- Provides a foundation on how nuclear techniques can facilitate the implementation of climate-smart agricultural practices
- Demonstrates the unique traits of the cosmogenic fallout radioisotope Be-7 and its use as a short-term soil redistribution budgeting tool
- Offers step-by-step guidance and easy-to-follow protocols to perform effective field studies with appropriate attention to tracer limitations and uncertainties
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William Blake is Professor of Catchment Science at the University of Plymouth, UK, with research interests in soil erosion, its downstream impacts and associated land management challenges. He obtained his PhD at the University of Exeter in December 2000 based on research into the use of 7Be as a tracer in sediment budget investigations. He has published over 80 scientific articles. He specialises in the application of sediment tracing technologyto examine fine sediment sources and budgets in river basins and the onsite and downstream impacts of soil erosion within the food-water-energy-environment nexus. This has involved development and application of tools utilising fallout radionuclides, mineral magnetics, geochemistry and biomarkers to explore catchment response to disturbance in UK, Australia, SE Asia and most recently East Africa and Latin America. Since 2008, he has worked closely with Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture though Coordinated Research Programmes (CRP), concerning application of isotopic and nuclear techniques in river basins, and delivery of training courses on 7Be as a tracer. He currently leads interdisciplinary research projects in Tanzania and Chile, integrating natural science and social science evidence to support co-design of pathways to land management change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7)
Editors: Lionel Mabit, William Blake
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10982-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10981-3Published: 04 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10982-0Published: 18 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 69
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering, Physical Geography, Natural Resources