Bala Natrajan
The microscopic nature of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission is complex and is not well understood and well quantified in a real field, leading to a lack of mechanistic insight of where and how reductions can be achieved. There are fundamental scientific and technical challenges associated with sensing, monitoring and mitigating GHGs. Currently, it is difficult to exactly pinpoint GHG emission hotspots with high selectivity and specificity. Situational awareness in terms of the spatio-temporal distribution of GHG is unavailable due to the lack of affordable and in-field continuous sensor technology. Therefore, we are limited in our ability to quantify soil GHG emissions at sufficiently fine spatial and temporal scale to validate putative emissions reductions. Natarajan group will study the spatio-temporal study of the GHG emission in the proposed project by using the actual sensors' field data.