Nitrogen Management Essentials

This Professional Certificate includes the following short courses: Nitrogen: A Global Challenge, and Nitrogen-related field measurements.

The nitrogen challenge is one of the biggest environmental challenges of the 21st century. If we meet this challenge it can help us to tackle the climate, biodiversity and food crises. If we fail then it will make these threats worse. This Professional Certificate will provide you a basic understanding of effective nitrogen management. Regardless of your background, you will learn core concepts about nitrogen and global change, their challenges and opportunities. Key topics include food security, climate change, air pollution, water pollution, and human health.

In this course you will:

• Learn about the global nitrogen challenge, how nitrogen has helped human civilization to develop, and how its misuse now threatens us.
• Examine the solutions to the global challenges of nitrogen and how we can better manage this precious element.
• Get guided training in everything from greenhouse gas flux measurements, through ammonia flux measurements, to a number of plant and soil nitrogen measurements.
• Gain insight into laboratory analyses accompanied by detailed descriptions of procedures and calculations.

This course is for anyone with an interest in the environmental and nitrogen challenges of the 21st century. 

This programme is Introductory therefore no previous knowledge is required.