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Dr. Kara Marsden is a Teaching and Research Lecturer in Soil Science at Bangor University's School of Environmental and Natural Sciences. She holds a BSc and PhD in Environmental and Soil Science from Bangor University, and completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and Bangor. Her research focuses on sustainable food production, nitrogen cycling, gaseous emissions (N₂O/N₂), and plant-microbe interactions. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers, with an h-index of 16 and 1000+ citations.
Her current work addresses agricultural emission mitigation strategies, soil microbial dynamics, and livestock nitrogen management. She leads modules on environmental science and pollution, and contributes to field courses in Tenerife. Active in professional bodies, she chairs the Welsh Regional Soils Discussion Group and serves on the EDI Committee. Her recent projects include studying emission hotspots and climate-smart agriculture practices.
Key research trends include optimizing nitrogen use efficiency, quantifying soil-plant-animal interactions, and evaluating microplastic impacts on soil biology. She collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, linking field observations with lab-based analyses to inform sustainable land management.
Grants and projects include an ongoing study on lower plant roles in temperate rainforest carbon budgets (2025–2026). No scientific awards are listed, but her work has significant policy implications for UK agricultural emissions targets.
