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Gomez-Casanovas, Nuria

Directory Profile for Nuria Gomez-Casanovas

Assistant Professor in Regenerative System Ecology
Office:  
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon
Email:  
Phone:  
(940) 647-3912
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Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Graduate Education
Ph.D. Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Areas of Expertise

  • Food
  • Energy and environmental security
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Agroecology
  • Regenerative agriculture

Professional Summary

Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Vernon. She works at the nexus of environment, energy and food security to find answers to a critical question: How can we sustainably meet the demand for plant biomass to provide sufficient food, feed and energy with an increasing global population of 11 billion people while improving the resilience and sustainability of agricultural and managed land? She combines lab, field and modeling experiments in a holistic way to tackle this grand challenge integrating and expanding on mechanistic knowledge of biogeochemical cycles. She has published numerous articles in esteemed journals and has been successful at engaging with diverse stakeholders through her work at commercial and private ranches. Nuria has been awarded numerous grants from both private and federal funding for a total of over $ 12.2 M since 2016.

Selected Publications

Gomez-Casanovas N, Blanc-Betes E, Moore CE, Bernacchi CJ, Kantola I, DeLucia EH. A review of transformative strategies for climate mitigation by grasslands. Sci Total Environ. 2021 Dec 10;799:149466.
Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia NJ, DeLucia EH, Boughton EH, Bernacchi CJ (2020). Seasonal controls of CO2 and CH4 dynamics in a temporarily flooded subtropical wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005257.
DeLucia NJ, Gomez-Casanovas N, Boughton EH, Bernacchi CJ (2019). The role of management on methane emissions from subtropical wetlands embedded in agricultural ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005132.
Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia NJ, Bernacchi CJ, Boughton EH, Chamberlain S, Sparks JP, DeLucia EH (2018). Grazing alters net ecosystem C fluxes and reduces the global warming potential of a subtropical pasture. Ecological Applications, DOI: 10.1002/eap.1670.
Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia N, Hudiburg T, Bernacchi CJ, DeLucia EH (2018). Conversion of grazed pastures to energy cane as a biofuel feedstock alters the emission of GHGs from soils in Southeastern United States. Biomass and Bioenergy, DOI:10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.11.020.