Liam Fitzpatrick
Academic title(s):
MSc Candidate
Current research:
Manually-operated static chambers are widely used for measuring greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural soils. This method is laborious and measurements are infrequent. As such, short-term fluxes due to weather changes or soil disturbances associated with field management are not captured. In contrast, automated chambers systems can continually measure greenhouse gas fluxes from soils, but they are costlier to procure and operate. Liam Fitzpatrick鈥檚 research is focused on developing a hybrid system to leverage the advantages of both types of chamber and generate a flux estimation factor that could be used to compensate for the low temporal resolution of data collected with manual chambers only.
