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David A. Laird is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, with significant work in related subfields such as soil science, industrial and manufacturing engineering, biomedical engineering, agronomy and crop science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to key topics including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, phosphorus and nutrient management, bioenergy crop production and management, thermochemical biomass conversion processes, clay minerals and soil interactions, soil and unsaturated flow, and environmental impact and sustainability.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by David A. Laird are:

  • Estimating the organic oxygen content of biochar, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Enhancing Biochar as Scaffolding for Slow Release of Nitrogen Fertilizer, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Capture and Release of Orthophosphate by Fe-Modified Biochars: Mechanisms and Environmental Applications, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Biocharsupply-chain and challenges to commercialization, 2022, GCB Bioenergy
  • Global land-use and carbon emission implications from biochar application to cropland in the United States, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

David A. Laird regularly collaborates with a network of researchers, including Santanu Bakshi, Chumki Banik, Ryan Smith, Robert C. Brown, and Sotirios V. Archontoulis, illustrating a consistent interdisciplinary approach in their research projects.

The scientist publishes frequently in specific venues, prominently in the journals GCB Bioenergy, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cleaner Production, and the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Best Publications

  • Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy–Principal Components Regression Analyses of Soil Properties

    Cheng-Wen Chang;David A. Laird;Maurice J. Mausbach;Charles R. Hurburgh

  • Impact of biochar amendments on the quality of a typical Midwestern agricultural soil

    David A. Laird;Pierce Fleming;Dedrick D. Davis;Robert Horton

  • Biochar impact on nutrient leaching from a Midwestern agricultural soil.

    David Laird;Pierce Fleming;Baiqun Wang;Robert Horton

  • The Charcoal Vision: A Win–Win–Win Scenario for Simultaneously Producing Bioenergy, Permanently Sequestering Carbon, while Improving Soil and Water Quality

    David A. Laird

  • Review of the pyrolysis platform for coproducing bio-oil and biochar

    David A. Laird;Robert C. Brown;James E. Amonette;Johannes C. Lehmann

  • Bio-oil and bio-char production from corn cobs and stover by fast pyrolysis

    Charles A. Mullen;Akwasi A. Boateng;Neil M. Goldberg;Isabel M. Lima

  • Effects of long-term soil acidification due to nitrogen fertilizer inputs in Wisconsin

    Phillip Barak;Babou O. Jobe;Armand R. Krueger;Lloyd A. Peterson

  • Assessing potential of biochar for increasing water‐holding capacity of sandy soils

    Andres S. Basso;Fernando E. Miguez;David A. Laird;Robert Horton

  • NEAR-INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF SOIL C AND N

    Cheng-Wen Chang;David A. Laird

  • The Charcoal Vision : A Win – Win – Win Scenario for Simultaneously Producing Bioenergy , Permanently Sequestering Carbon , while Improving Soil and Water Quality

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  • Short-term CO2 mineralization after additions of biochar and switchgrass to a Typic Kandiudult ☆

    J.M. Novak;W.J. Busscher;D.W. Watts;D.A. Laird

  • Stability of Biochar in Soil

    Johannes Lehmann;Claudia Czimczik;David Laird;Saran Sohi

  • Influence of layer charge on swelling of smectites

    David A. Laird

  • Environmental benefits of biochar.

    James A. Ippolito;David A. Laird;Warren J. Busscher

  • Characterization and quantification of biochar alkalinity.

    Rivka B. Fidel;David A. Laird;Michael L. Thompson;Michael Lawrinenko

  • Sorption of tetracycline and chlortetracycline on K- and Ca-saturated soil clays, humic substances, and clay-humic complexes.

    Jutta R. V. Pils;David A. Laird

  • Atrazine Desorption from Smectites

    E. Barriuso;D. A. Laird;W. C. Koskinen;R. H. Dowdy

  • Characterization of volatile organic emissions and wastes from a swine production facility

    J. A. Zahn;J. L. Hatfield;Y. S. Do;A. A. DiSpirito

  • Adsorption of Atrazine on Smectites

    D. A. Laird;E. Barriuso;R. H. Dowdy;W. C. Koskinen

  • Arsenic sorption on zero-valent iron-biochar complexes.

    Santanu Bakshi;Chumki Banik;Samuel J. Rathke;David A. Laird

  • Anion exchange capacity of biochar

    Michael Lawrinenko;David A. Laird

  • Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization and Cropping System on Carbon Sequestration in Midwestern Mollisols

    Ann E. Russell;David Laird;Timothy B. Parkin;Antonio P. Mallarino

  • Stability of Biochar in the Soil

    Johannes Lehmann;C. I. Czimczik;David Laird;Saran Sohi

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Brown
Robert C. Brown Iowa State University
Douglas L. Karlen
Douglas L. Karlen Iowa State University
Kenneth J. Moore
Kenneth J. Moore Iowa State University
Hui Li
Hui Li Michigan State University
Sotirios V. Archontoulis
Sotirios V. Archontoulis Iowa State University
Dermot J. Hayes
Dermot J. Hayes Iowa State University
Cliff T. Johnston
Cliff T. Johnston Purdue University West Lafayette
Andrew W. Lenssen
Andrew W. Lenssen Iowa State University
Jeffrey M. Novak
Jeffrey M. Novak United States Department of Agriculture
Tyson Ochsner
Tyson Ochsner Oklahoma State University

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