María earned her BSc in Environmental Technology and PhD in Applied Environmental and Health Sciences at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Her PhD and previous postdoctoral research focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the soil-atmosphere interface in relation to different land uses, principally evaluating the effect of changing natural ecosystems to anthropic ones. Maria’s research expertise includes conducting field experiments to study the effects of land use change on spatial-temporal variations in GHG fluxes and soil gas diffusivity using the static chamber technique combined with gas chromatography. Maria is now a USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub Fellow based at Kansas State University where she plans to focus on soil nitrogen in grazing land systems in the US.
María Is developing a comprehensive knowledge base and associated meta-analysis of scientific literature reporting grazing land management and soil nitrogen dynamics. This project will help inform the soil carbon analysis results and will is also expected to produce at least one referred scientific paper and associated outreach materials summarizing the knowns and unknowns about livestock grazing and soil nitrogen dynamics.
Featured Work
De Bernardi, M., Priano, M. E., Fernández, M. E., Gyenge, J., & Juliarena, M. P. (2022). Impact of land use change on soil methane fluxes and diffusivity in Pampean plains, Argentina. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 329, 107866.
De Bernardi, M., Diez, J. F., & Gatica, G. (2022, September). Mapping The Potential Soil CH4 Diffusion Coefficient For Buenos Aires Province (Argentina). In 2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
De Bernardi, M., Priano, M. E., Fusé, V. S., Fernández, M. E., Gyenge, J., Guzmán, S. A., & Juliarena, M. P. (2021). High methane uptake from soils of low and high density radiata pine afforestations compared to herbaceous systems. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 40(1), 99-109.
De Bernardi, M., Priano, M. E., Fusé, V. S., Guzmán, S. A., & Juliarena, M. P. (2019). Methane oxidation and diffusivity in mollisols under an urban forest in Argentina. Geoderma Regional, 18, e00230.
Fusé, V. S., Priano, M. E., De Bernardi, M., Marinone, E., Guzmán, S. A., & Juliarena, M. P. (2016, June). Regional variations in atmospheric methane in Argentina according to satellite data. In 2016 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
