CURRICULUM VITAE
LAURA CARDENAS
Academic degrees:
1980-1986
Degree in Chemistry, Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB), Venezuela,. Thesis
on analytical chemistry to look at the potential of using a chelating agent to
analyse metals in solution.
1989-1992
MSc in Atmospheric Chemistry, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones
Cientificas (IVIC), Venezuela, “Biogenic emissions of nitric oxide in
cultivated and non cultivated soils in the Venezuelan savannah”
1993-1998
PhD in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.
Investigating atmospheric chemistry in background and polluted air,
developed and deployed an analytical technique to measure atmospheric
formaldehyde and measured carbon monoxide continuously for 2 years.
Career history:
1986-1989
Chemist at the Instituto Sanitario de Obras Sanitarias (INOS),
Venezuela, in charge of the laboratory of waste water analysis in the
national water supply company.
1992-1993
Research Scientist at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones
Cientificas (IVIC), Venezuela,. Responsible for atmospheric
measurements of CO and supervised an MSc student.
1998
Research Scientist at the University of East Anglia,. Responsible for
atmospheric and water measurements of dimethylsulphide (DMS)
Research Vessel ‘Discovery’.
1999-2004
Research Scientist (B7) at the Institute of Grassland and
Environmental Research, UK. Responsible for the design,
construction and computer control interface of an automated
laboratory system and then carrying out measurements to measure
denitrification from soils.
2004-present
Research Scientist (B6PD) at the Institute of Grassland and
Environmental Research, UK. I was part time between 2002 and
February 2007.
Publications:
1.Cárdenas, L., Rondón, A., Johansson, C., Sanhueza, E. (1993), “Effects of Soil
Moisture, Temperature and Inorganic Nitrogen on Nitric Oxide Emissions from Acidic
Tropical Savannah Soils”, J. Geophys. Res.: 98: 14783-14790 (times cited 65).
2.Sanhueza, E., Cárdenas, L., Donoso, L., Santana, M. (1994), “Effect of Plowing on
CO2, CO, CH4, N2O and NO fluxes from Tropical Savannah Soils”, J. Geophys. Res.: 99:
16429-16434 (times cited 43).
3.Baker, J.M., Reeves, C.E., Penkett, S.A., Cárdenas, L.M. and P.D. Nightingale
(1998), “An estimate of the global emissions of methyl bromide from automobile
exhausts”, Geophys. Res. Let., 25: 2405-2408 (times cited 13).
4.Cárdenas, L., Austin, J., Burgess, R., Clemitshaw, K., Dorling, S., Penkett S. and R.
Harrison (1998), “Correlations of CO, NOy, O3 and Non-methane Hydrocarbons and
their relationships with meteorology during winter 1993 on the North Norfolk Coast, UK,
Atmos. Environ., 32: 3339-3351 (times cited 26).
5.Grenfell, J.L., N. Savage, R.M. Harrison, S.A. Penkett, O. Forberich, F.J. Comes, K.C.
Clemitshaw, R.A. Burgess, L.M. Cárdenas, B. Davison, G.G. McFadyen, (1999),
“Tropospheric box modelling and analytical studies of the hydroxyl (OH) radical and
related species: comparison with observations”, J. Atmos. Chem., 33: 183-214 (times
cited 19).
6.Penkett, S.A., Clemitshaw, K.C., Savage, N.H., Burgess, R.A., Cardenas, L.M.,
Carpenter, L.J., McFadyen, G.G., Cape, J.N. (1999), Studies of oxidant production at the
Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in summer and winter conditions, J. Atmos.
Chem., 33: 111-128 (times cited 11).
7.Cárdenas, L.M., D.J. Brassington, B.J. Allan, H. Coe, B. Alicke, U. Platt, K.M.
Wilson, J.M.C. Plane and S.A. Penkett, Intercomparison of formaldehyde measurements
in clean and polluted atmospheres. J. Atmos. Chem., 37: 53-80 (times cited 19).
8.Cárdenas, L.M., J.M.B. Hawkins, D. Chadwick and D. Scholefield (2003) Biogenic
gas emissions from soils measured using a new automated laboratory incubation system.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 35, 867-870 (times cited 8).
9.Bol, R. S.Toyoda, S. Yamulki, J. Hawkins, L.Cárdenas and N. Yoshida (2003), Dual
isotope and isotopomer ratios of N2O emitted from a temperate grassland soil after
fertiliser application, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 17, 2550-2556
(times cited 13).
10.Penkett, S., Evans, M.J., Reeves, C., Law, K.S., Monks, P.S., Bauguitte, S.J.B., Pyle,
J.A., Green, T.J., Bandy, B.J., Mills, G., Cardenas, L., Barjat, H., Kley, D., Schmitgen,
S., Kent, J.M., Dewey, K. and J. Mehven (2004), Long-Range Transport of Ozone of
Ozone and Related Pollutants over the North Atlantic in Spring and Summer, J. Atmos.
Chem.Phys. Discuss., 4, 4407-4454.
11.Hatch, D. J. , Trindade, H., Cardenas, L. M., Carneiro, J. , Hawkins, J. M. B.,
Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R. (2005) Laboratory study of the effects of two
nitrification inhibitors on greenhouse gas emissions from a slurry-treated arable soil :
impact of diurnal temperature cycle, Biology and Fertility of Soils 41 (4) 225-232
(times cited 7).
12.Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R., Scholefield, D., Fychan, A. R. , Marley, C. L. ,
Jones, R. (2007) The effect of diet manipulation on nitrous oxide and methane emissions
from manure application to grassland soils Atmospheric Environment, 41 7096-7107.
13.T. D. Jickells, P. S. Liss, W. Broadgate, S. Turner, A.J. Kettle, J. Read, J. Baker, L.
M. Cardenas, F. Carse, M. Hamren-Larssen, L. Spokes, M. Steinke, A. Thompson, A.
Watson, S. D. Archer, R.G.J. Bellerby, C. S. Law, P. D. Nightingale, M. I. Liddicoat, C.
E. Widdicombe, A. Bowie, L.C. Gilpin, G. Moncoiffé, G. Savidge, T. Preston, P.
Hadziabdic, T. Frost, R. Upstill-Goddard, C. Pedrós-Alió, R. Simó, A. Jackson, A. Allen,
M. D. DeGrandpre, A Lagrangian Biogeochemical Study Of An Eddy In The North East
Atlantic, Progress in Oceanography, 76 366-398.
14. Meijide, A., Cardenas, L.M., Bergstermann, A., Bol, R., Gilliam, L., Goulding, K.,
Well, R., Vallejo, A. and
Scholefield, D. N2O, N2, CH4 and CO2 fluxes and isotopologue signature of the emitted
N2O during denitrification process in an incubated UK arable soil, submitted to Soil Biol.
Biochem.
Statement
My main interest is the study of Greenhouse Gases: their production, impact and removal
from agricultural systems. I am interested to learn about the factors that affect these
emissions to help on the development of mitigation measures in the light of climate change.
I work on mechanistic studies of the denitrification process at the laboratory scale. This
aids the understanding of the sources, sinks of N2O as well as allowing the assessment of
mitigation measures.
I also run field experiments to assess emissions of N2O from agricultural practices. I
compile the inventory of Greenhouse gases from agriculture in the UK and report to the
UNFCCC via DEFRA.
I have used models to estimate emissions from different sources, more specifically the
UK_DNDC.