Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Hale, Sarah"
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A reconnaissance-scale GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis to support sustainable biochar use: Poland as a case study
Latawiec, Agnieszka E.; Peake, Lewis; Baxter, Helen; Cornelissen, Gerard; Grotkiewicz, Katarzyna; Hale, Sarah; Królczyk, Jolanta B.; Kubon, Maciej; Łopatka, Artur; Medynska-Juraszek, Agnieszka; Reid, Brian J.; Siebielec, Grzegorz; Sohi, Saran P.; Strassburg, Bernardo BN (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Although increasing numbers of research papers regarding biochar are being published worldwide, in some countries growing interest in biochar has only recently been observed; this is true of Poland. We analysed information ... -
Biochar amendment improves degraded pasturelands in Brazil: environmental and cost-benefit analysis
Latawiec, Agnieszka E.; Strassburg, Bernardo B.; Junqueira, André B.; Araujo, Ednaldo; de Moraes, Luiz F.; Pinto, Helena A. N.; Castro, Ana; Rangel, Marico; Malaguti, Gustavo A.; Rodrigues, Aline; Barioni, Luis Gustavo; Novotny, Etelvino H.; Cornelissen, Gerard; Mendes, Maiara; Batista, Nilcileny; Guerra, Jose Guilherme; Zonta, Everaldo; Jakovac, Catarina; Hale, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Most deforested lands in Brazil are occupied by low-productivity cattle ranching. Brazil is the second biggest meat producer worldwide and is projected to increase its agricultural output more than any other country. Biochar ... -
Biochar application in Malaysian sandy and acid sulfate soils: soil amelioration effects and improved crop production over two cropping seasons
Manickam, Theeba; Cornelissen, Gerard; Bachmann, Robert T.; Ibrahim, Illani Z.; Mulder, Jan; Hale, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
Biochar effect on maize yield and soil characteristics in five conservation farming sites in Zambia
Cornelissen, Gerard; Martinsen, Vegard; Shitumbanuma, Victor; Alling, Vanja Karin Gunilla; Breedveld, Gijs D.; Rutherford, W.; Sparrevik, Lars Magnus; Hale, Sarah; Obia, Alfred; Mulder, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Biochar addition to agricultural soils can improve soil fertility, with the added bonus of climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Conservation farming (CF) is precision farming, often combining minimum ... -
Biochar from "Kon Tiki" flame curtain and other kilns: Effects of nutrient enrichment and kiln type on crop yield and soil chemistry
Pandit, Naba Raj; Mulder, Jan; Hale, Sarah; Schmidt, Hans Peter; Cornelissen, Gerard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Biochar application to soils has been investigated as a means of improving soil fertility and mitigating climate change through soil carbon sequestration. In the present work, the invasive shrub "Eupatorium adenophorum" ... -
Biochar improves maize growth by alleviation of nutrient stress in a moderately acidic low-input Nepalese soil
Pandit, Naba Raj; Mulder, Jan; Hale, Sarah; Martinsen, Vegard; Schmidt, Hans Peter; Cornelissen, Gerard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We studied the role of biochar in improving soil fertility for maize production. The effects of biochar on the alleviation of three potential physical-chemical soil limitations for maize growth were investigated, i.e. water ... -
Contaminated soil : waste today, resource tomorrow? : coupling hydraulic conductivity and leachability in soil characterization : a lab based study
Skjennum, Karen Ane Frøyland (Master thesis, 2019)Tons of surplus contaminated soil from construction projects are landfilled as waste every year. Lack of appropriate methods to assess and evaluate the leaching and spreading of contaminants from soil prevents a comprehensive ... -
Fading positive effect of biochar on crop yield and soil acidity during five growth seasons in an Indonesian Ultisol
Cornelissen, Gerard; Jubaedah, X; Nurida, Neneng; Hale, Sarah; Martinsen, Vegard; Silvani, Ludovica; Mulder, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Low fertility limits crop production on acidic soils dominating much of the humid tropics. Biochar may be used as a soil enhancer, but little consensus exists on its effect on crop yield. Here we use a controlled, replicated ... -
How to determine the environmental exposure of PAHs originating from biochar
Mayer, Philipp; Hilber, Isabel; Gouliarmou, Varvara; Hale, Sarah; Cornelissen, Gerard; Bucheli, Thomas D (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Biochars are obtained by pyrolysing biomass materials and are increasingly used within the agricultural sector. Owing to the production process, biochars can contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the high mg/kg ... -
Influence of spatial differentiation in impact assessment for LCA-based decision support: implementation of biochar technology in Indonesia
Owsianiak, Mikolaj; Cornelissen, Gerard; Hale, Sarah; Lindhjem, Henrik; Sparrevik, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) in sediment and edible fish from the Eastern Red Sea
Ali, Aasim M; Sanden, Monica; Higgins, Christopher; Hale, Sarah; Alarif, Walied; Al-Lihaibi, Sultan; Ræder, Erik Magnus; Langberg, Håkon Austad; Kallenborn, Roland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021) -
Monitoring alkylphenols in water using the polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS): Determining sampling rates via the extraction of PES membranes and Oasis beads
Silvani, Ludovica; Riccardi, Carmela; Eek, Espen; Papini, Marco Petrangeli; Morin, Nicolas; Cornelissen, Gerard; Oen, Amy M P; Hale, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) have previously been used to monitor alkylphenol (AP) contamination in water and produced water. However, only the sorbent receiving phase of the POCIS (Oasis beads) is ... -
Multi-year double cropping biochar field trials in Nepal: Finding the optimal biochar dose through agronomic trials and cost-benefit analysis
Pandit, Naba Raj; Mulder, Jan; Hale, Sarah; Zimmermann, Andrew R.; Pandit, Bishnu Hari; Cornelissen, Gerard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Poor water and nutrient retention are the major soil fertility limitations in the low productivity agricultural soils of Nepal. The addition of biochar to these soils is one way these hindrances can be overcome. In the ... -
Nutrient effect of various composting methods with and without biochar on soil fertility and maize growth
Pandit, Naba Raj; Schmidt, Hans Peter; Mulder, Jan; Hale, Sarah; Husson, Olivier; Cornelissen, Gerard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This work showed for the first time that organic nutrient transformation techniques based on locally available materials (manure, green waste and advanced biochar) can increase fertilizing efficiency of the resulting ... -
Sorption of α-, β-, γ- and δ-hexachlorocyclohexane isomers to three widely different biochars: Sorption mechanisms and application
Silvani, Ludovica; Cornelissen, Gerard; Hale, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Within this study different biochars (BC) with widely varying characteristics have been tested as materials for the adsorption of hexachlorocyclohexane's (HCH) isomers (α, β, γ and δ) from water. Three BCs produced from ... -
Stabilization of PFAS-contaminated soil with activated biochar
Sørmo, Erlend; Silvani, Ludovica; Bjerkli, Nora; Hagemann, Nikolas; Zimmermann, Andrew R.; Hale, Sarah; Hansen, Caroline Berge; Hartnik, Thomas; Cornelissen, Gerard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Biochars are considered potential sustainable sorbents to reduce the leaching of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) fromcontaminated soils. However, biochar characteristicsmust probably be optimized to achieve ... -
The effect of biochar, lime and ash on maize yield in a long-term field trial in a Ultisol in the humid tropics
Hale, Sarah; Nurida, Neneng L.; Jubaedah, *; Mulder, Jan; Sørmo, Erlend; Silvani, Ludovica; Abiven, Samuel; Joseph, Stephen; Taherymoosavi, Sarasadat; Cornelissen, Gerard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A multi-season field trial was carried out to investigate the effect of the amendment of biochar, lime, ash and washed biochar on the growth of maize. A degraded, strongly acidic Ultisol (pHKCl 3.60), with a relatively ... -
The Effects of Gliricidia-Derived Biochar on Sequential Maize and Bean Farming
Castro, Ana; da Silva Batista, Nilcileny; Latawiec, Agnieszka E.; Rodrigues, Aline; Strassburg, Bernardo; Silva, Daniel; Araujo, Ednaldo; de Moraes, Luiz F.; Guerra, Jose G.; Galvão, Gabriel; Alves-Pinto, Helena; Mendes, Maiara; dos Santos, Juliana S.; Rangel, Marcio C.; Figueredo, Mariela; Cornelissen, Gerard; Hale, Sarah (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The addition of biochar to soils can improve soil fertility and increase agricultural productivity. We carried out a field experiment in which biochar produced from Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp. was added to ... -
The effects of soil organic matter on leaching of hexavalent chromium from concrete waste: Batch and column experiments
Eckbo, Cathrine; Okkenhaug, Gudny; Hale, Sarah (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Concrete is one of the most common building materials in the world and in accordance with the world’s shift to a circular economy, there is a need of an increase in concrete reuse and recycling. One of the environmental ... -
The fate of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in a marine food web influenced by land-based sources in the Norwegian Arctic
Aasim, Ali M; Langberg, Håkon Austad; Hale, Sarah; Kallenborn, Roland; Mortensen, Åse-Karen; Hartz, William F; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; McDonought, Carrie A.; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Breedveld, Gijs D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)