Richard Nair
I am interested in plant-soil systems and global change, including how to measure these with technical solutions.
I am a lecturer in Botany at Trinity College Dublin.
Biography
Richard Nair is a researcher and lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, interested in applying technical solutions to plant-soil ecology in order to understand and predict global change.
Interests
- (Root) Phenology
- Global Change
- Nitrogen and Carbon Cycles
- Technological solutions to sampling limits
Education
PhD in Geosciences, 2015
University of Edinburgh
MRes Ecolovy and Environmental Management, 2010
University of York
BSc Biology, 2009
University of York
Highlights
I’m interested in root ecology and belowground phenology. I built automated minirhizotron systems for measuring root phenology and collected the first fully analysed high frequency automated field datasets.
I am an expert in forest nitrogen cycling, particularly nitrogen uptake by the canopy. I used novel methods in mesocosm during my PhD and later validated them in the field.
