Education:
Ph.D. Soils, Kansas State University, 1985
M.Sc. Soils, Kansas State University, 1981
B.Sc. Agronomy, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1972

Dr. César Izaurralde is a laboratory fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration of the University of Maryland with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is also an adjunct professor in the departments of Geography and the Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. Dr. Izaurralde is a soil scientist with more than 30 years of research experience in agronomy, soil science, and ecosystem modeling. His current research focuses in the areas of modeling the impacts of climate change and variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and carbon sequestration in and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. Before joining PNNL in 1997, Dr. Izaurralde served as Chair of Resource Conservation in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, Canada. There he taught courses in soil conservation and conducted research in the areas of soil conservation and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems and environmental-economic modeling. In his native Argentina, he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Dr. Izaurralde is Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.  Dr. Izaurralde is a member of the Soil Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union.