Functional Soil Health

Biochar continues to grow in popularity as a way to recycle waste products and sequester carbon. Previously I worked with researchers at UC Davis to better understand how biochar can be used as a replacement for peat moss as potting media and the influence of biochar on water and nutrient mobility in soils.

Softwood biochar imaged by Devin Rippner on the X-ray microCT beamline at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Biochar in a soil column imaged by Keith Duncan at the Danforth Center. Later in the video the biochar is identified in brown by with a deep learning workflow developed by Devin Rippner.
Scanning Electron Microscope Image of almond shell biochar.