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Karl Richards

Head of Climate Centre, Teagasc

Karl Richards is a Senior Principal Researcher Officer at Teagasc. He leads the newly established virtual Teagasc Climate Centre. He led a team of researchers in the area of nitrogen cycling including the impact of management practices on reducing Nitrogen losses (nitrous oxide, nitrate leaching and ammonia). He has published extensively on measures to reduce nitrous oxide and nitrate emissions, including leading the protected urea research that commenced in 2012. Internationally, he has worked on a range of Internationally funded competitive research projects, was a member of the EU Nitrogen Expert panel, a national representative on the Global Research Alliance and has published over 180 scientific papers.