Conor Bracken
Research OfficerResearch Interests
- Understanding soil biogeochemical cycling to mitigate GHG emissions and nutrient losses to water
- Measurement & monitoring GHG emissions at different spatial and temporal scales
- Using Stable Isotope Techniques to measure soil & plant biogeochemical cycling
- Investigating the impact of weather, management and climate on nutrient pathways in soil
Current Projects
- Assessing Peatland Emissions of Nitrous Oxide (ASPEN)
- Quantification of the impact of agricultural management on the carbon balance from organic and organo-mineral soils (Carbosol)
- Indicators for successful carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation by rewetting cultivated peat soils (INSURE)
- The National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory (NASCO)
- Farm Sustainability Tools for Efficient Nutrient Management (FaSTEN)
Education
- 2020 – PhD School of Agriculture & Food Science, University College Dublin
- 2016 – MSc(Agr) Environmental Resource Management, School of Agriculture & Food Science, University College Dublin
- 2014 – BAgrSc (Hons) Horticulture, Landscape and Sportsturf Management, School of Agriculture & Food Science, University College Dublin
Bracken C.J., Lanigan G.J., Richards K.G., Müller C., Tracy S.R., Grant J., Krol D.J., Sheridan H., Lynch M.B., Grace C., Fritch R., Murphy P.N.C., 2020. Sward composition and soil moisture conditions affect nitrous oxide emissions and soil nitrogen dynamics following urea-nitrogen application. Sci. Total Environ. 722, (137780). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137780
Bracken C.J., Lanigan G.J., Richards K.G., Müller C., Tracy S.R., Grant J., Krol D.J., Sheridan H., Lynch M.B., Grace C., Fritch R., Murphy P.N.C., 2021. Source partitioning using N2O isotopomers and soil WFPS to establish dominant N2O production pathways from different pasture sward compositions. Sci. Total Environ. 781, (146515). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146515
Bracken C.J., Lanigan G.J., Richards K.G., Müller C., Tracy S.R., Well R., Carolan R., Murphy, P.N.C., 2021. Development and verification of a novel isotopic N2O measurement technique for discrete static chamber samples using cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 35:e9049. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9049
Zaman M, Kleineidam K, Bakken L, Berendt J, Bracken C, Butterbach-Bahl K, Cai Z, Chang SX, Clough T, Dawar K, Ding WX, Dörsch P, dos Reis Martins M, Eckhardt C, Fiedler S, Frosch T, Goopy J, Görres C-M, Gupta A, Henjes S, Hofmann MEG, Horn MA, Jahangir MMR, Jansen-Willems A, Lenhart K, Heng L, Lewicka-Szczebak D, Lucic G, Merbold L, Mohn J, Molstad L, Moser G, Murphy P, Sanz-Cobena A, Šimek M, Urquiaga S, Well R, Wrage-Mönnig N, Zaman S, Zhang J, Müller C (2021) Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options Using Nuclear and Related Techniques Springer ISBN 978-3-030-55395-1, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55396-8
Bracken, C.J., Lanigan, G.J., Richards, K.G., Müller, C., Tracy, S.R. and Murphy, P.N., 2022. Seasonal effects reveal potential mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emission and N leaching from grassland swards of differing composition (grass monoculture, grass/clover and multispecies). Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 340, (108187). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108187