Soil Carbon Stabilization to Mitigate Climate Change

Dr. Rahul Datta is a soil microbiologist and enzymologist. Dr. Datta holds an MSc and PhD from the Department of Geology and Pedology at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. Dr. Datta’s research was focused on understanding the effect of biogenic & xenobiotic substances on microbial metabolism in the soil. Dr. Datta has worked with Dr. Richard Dick at Ohio State University, Ohio, USA as a visiting scientist. He was also invited as a visiting scientist by Prof. Paolo Nannipieri at University of Florence, Italy. Dr Datta has published numerous research articles, published book with a springer, Intech Open and he reviewed 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Datta is an editorial board member of Journal open agriculture and hosting special issue in Agriculture (MDPI) and Sustainability (MDPI) Journal. At present, he is a member of Soil Science Society of America.

Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy, I.Ag. Scs., BHU, Varanasi (UP). Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the MHRD, GOI. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Prof. Rattan Lal World Food Prize 2020 Laureate, Director, CMASC, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has supervised 20 PG and 6 PhD students, and has 10 years of research and teaching experience. He is working on the three externally funded projects (DST, MHRD, ICAR) with one patent. Dr. Meena has published more than 110 research and review papers and have H-index is 40, as well 4 published books at the national and 15 books at the international levels, and contributed in the books with 15 chapters at national and 50 at the international levels. He has worked as an expert for the NCERT, MHRD, GOI. Dr. Meena is contributed in several agricultural extension activities, trainings, meetings, workshops, etc.