Abdelkrim Lachgar
Education: Ph.D. ’24, Cornell Advisor: Louis Longchamps, Soil and Crop Sciences
EDF Advisors: Emily Oldfield and Jocelyn Lavalee
Abdelkrim Lachgar is a 2024 EDF-Cornell Atkinson Joint Postdoc. He is a dedicated and experienced soil data scientist focusing on precision agriculture. My expertise includes advanced Big data analysis, machine learning and spatial predictive modeling, soil health and fertility management, Remote sensing, and spatial statistics. Proven ability to collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary research projects. I am committed to advancing agricultural scientific knowledge through innovative research for informed management decisions.
Designing a Reliable and Scalable Sampling Strategy for Regional Soil Carbon Stock Monitoring
Proactive management of agricultural soils can sequester carbon, build soil health over time and contribute to climate mitigation, adaptation and long-term farm viability. Governments and private actors are creating carbon markets to encourage and pay farmers to adopt sustainable management practices, but they’re hampered by difficulties in verifying and quantifying changes in soil carbon levels. Researchers will leverage soil carbon data collected by EDF and collaborators and couple it with data from soil surveys, topography, remote sensing and land management records to define agricultural management zones and create digital soil mapping. This work aims to optimize strategies for surveying soil carbon, and thus improve reliability in carbon markets.