Jagadeesh Yeluripati

My current research interests focus on interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the global atmosphere, with a particular focus on soils and their role in global carbon and nitrogen cycling, to understand how the ecology of ecosystems may be shifting in response to global climate change. This work has been conducted across many varied temperate and tropical ecosystems and has contributed directly to a number of international collaborative projects including the, NitroEurope-IP, GHG-Europe, SmartSoil, MACSUR and networks. Like Global Research Alliance in Agriculture Greenhouse gas emissions (GRA), FACE-JPI etc.

Current research focuses on:

• modelling soil carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry
• greenhouse gas fluxes from terrestrial ecosystems
• climate change impacts and adaptation in agriculture,
• sustainability of ecosystem services under changing climate
• land use change and food security.

Current responsibilities: 

• Group leader, Human and Environmental modelling group
• Research Deliverable (RD) leader for delivering Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme (RESAS, 2016-2022, RD 1.1.3) on Soils and Greenhouse Gas Emissions [3]
• Co-ordinator for Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform [4]
• Founding member of Asian Long-term Experimental Network (ALTENA), Japan [5]

External project funding

• [2012-15] DEFRA project entitled "Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform" (GRAMP) [6]. (2012-2016). Grant money: £489,000, Hutton value: £30,000
• [2014-15] ClimateXChange project entitled “Priorities for extending the Peatland Carbon Calculator, Grant money: £ 42,000
• [2015-17] FACCE JPI , Modelling European agriculture with climate change for food security [7].  Hutton value: £8,688
• [2016]  Scottish Water,  Feasibility study on a willow wetland treatment system for Orkney.  Matthews (R), Yeluripati.; Hutton value £3,027
• [2018-] ClimateXChange project entitled “Payment for carbon sequestration in soils [8]”, Grant money £ 30,000
• [2017 – 21] Norwegian Research Council funded project entitled “Climate Smart use of Norwegian organic soils (MYR) “Hutton value: £ 270,000
• [2019-21] Optimization of C and N cycles between livestock and cropping systems and predict GHG emissions using the DNDC model in the Brazilian savannah, CONFAP – THE UK ACADEMIES , Hutton value : £3000 
• [2019-22] Biochar to Address Air Pollution, Climate Change, Food Security and Farmers' Income, GCRF, Hutton value : £1600  
• [2021-2024] Indicators for successful carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation by rewetting cultivated peat soils (INSURE), EJP soils, Hutton value: £50,000
• [2020-2022] NERC - Dynamic monitoring, reporting and verification for implementing negative emission strategies in managed ecosystems (RETINA) [9]; Grant money: £1.03 million
• [2020-2022] First purpose-built UK tall tower for greenhouse gas research [10]; Grant money: £990,000
• [2022-2025] ERA-NET,  Synergies in integrated systems: Improving resource use efficiency while mitigating GHG emissions through well-informed decisions about Circularity [11]; Grant value: £1.33 million euros

Current Postdocs :

• Ms. Elizabeth Cowdery [12](Postdoctoral Fellow) 

Current Phd students : 

• Ms. RUJUTA NALAVADE (University of Aberdeen, 2020-Present) The potential impact of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India on food availability, poverty alleviation and soil degradation
• Mr. Jake Witherington  [13] (University of Highlands and Islands, 2021 – present) Modelling eco-hydrological feedbacks and resilience in blanket bogs undergoing restoration in the context of climate change

Graduated Phd and MSc Students: 

• Ms. Khadiza Begum (Aberdeen University, 2018) Assessing the sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to land management using ecosystem models
• Ms. Fortune Gomo (University of Dundee, 2019) Supporting better decisions across the nexus of water-energy-food challenges
• Ms. Valeria Mazzola (University of Aberdeen, 2021) Carbon and greenhouse gas implications of integrated energy security and climate change mitigation options for Scotland
• Ms. Julia Peraldi (University of Aberdeen, 2016, MSc dissertation) Assessing the carbon balance of windfarms in Scotland