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Task 3.5 biodiversity PhD student collaborator

Department of soil biology and biological soil quality, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Carmen Vazquez Martin studied Environmental Sciences in Spain and followed up with a Masters’ degree in Forest and nature conservation in Wageningen University. Currently She is working on a PhD in Soil biology at Wageningen University and Research  in the SQUASH project. The aim of the project is to use principles of ecology to develop and test a protocol to derive indicator values for different soil fauna, and then link these indicators to soil functions using machine learning algorithms.

Key tasks in LANDMARK

She will contribute to:

  • provide data to validate the Task 3.5 soil biodiversity models
  • Models validation process and reporting