Affiliations
Professor and Head of Centre for Soil & Environmental Research
Faculty of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Lincoln University
Canterbury
New Zealand
Website:
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Research/Research-Centres/Centre-for-Soil-and-Environmental-Research/
Honours, awards, and memberships
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ)
Fellow of the NZ Society of Soil Science (FNZSSS)
Fellow of the NZ Institute of Agricultural Science (FNZIAS)
Awarded ‘A’ Grade Scholar (World Class Researcher) by PBRF assessment panel
Member, NZAGRC Global Alliance Senior Scientist Award (GRASS) Advisory Panel.
Research Interest
Nitrification Inhibitors, soil nitrogen, nitrate leaching from soils, nitrous oxide emissions from grazed pasture systems, soil fertility, and soil physics.
List of your recent publications
Di, H.J. & Cameron, K.C. (2016). Inhibition of nitrification to mitigate nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide emissions in grazed grassland: a review. Journal of Soils and Sediments 16: 1401-1420.
Selbie, D.R., Lanigan, G.J., Laughlin, R.J., Di, H.J., Moir, J.L., Cameron, K.C., Clough, T.J., Watson, C.J., Grant, J., Somers, C., Richards, K.G. (2015). Confirmation of co-dentrification in grazed grassland. Nature Scientific Reports 5:17361. doi: 10. 1038/srep17361.
Malcolm, B.J., Cameron, K.C., Edwards, G.R, Di, H.J. (2015). Nitrogen leaching losses from lysimeters containing winter kale: the effects of urinary N rate and DCD application. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 58(1), 13-25.
Cameron, K.C., Di, H.J., Moir, J.L. (2014). Dicyandiamide (DCD) effect on nitrous oxide emissions, nitrate leaching and pasture yield in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 57:251–270.
Robinson, A., Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C., Podolyan, A., He, J.Z. (2014).The effect of soil pH and dicyandiamide (DCD) on N2O emissions and ammonia oxidiser abundance in a stimulated grazed pasture soil. Journal of Soils and Sediments 14: 1434 – 1444.
Robinson, A., Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C., Podolyan, A. (2014). Effect of soil aggregate size and dicyandiamide on N2O emissions and ammonia oxidizer abundance in a grazed pasture soil. Soil Use and Management 30: 231-240.
Selbie, D.R., Cameron, K.C., Di, H.J., Moir, J.L., Lanigan, G.J., Richards, K.G. (2014). The effect of urinary nitrogen loading rate and a nitrification inhibitor on nitrous oxide emissions from a temperate grassland soil. Journal of Agricultural Science DOI: 10.1017/S0021859614000136.
Guo, Yan, J., Di, Hong, J., Cameron, Keith, C., Li, Bowen (2014). Effect of application rate of a nitrification inhibitor, dicyandiamide (DCD), on nitrification rate and ammonia-oxidising bacteria and archaea growth in a grazed pasture soil: an incubation study. Journal of Soils and Sediments 14: 897-903.
Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C., Podolyan, A., Robinson, A. (2014). Effect of soil moisture status and a nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide on ammonia oxidiser growth and Nitrous oxide emissions in a grassland pasture. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 73: 59-68.
Cameron, K.C., Di, H.J., Moir, J.L. (2013). Nitrogen losses from the soil/plant system: a review. Annals of Applied Biology 162: 145–173.
Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C. (2011). Inhibition of ammonium oxidation by a liquid formulation of 3,4-Dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) compared with a dicyandiamide (DCD) solution in six New Zealand grazed grassland soils. Journal of Soils and Sediments 11: 1032–1039.
Di, H.J., Cameron, K.C., Shen, J.P., Winefield, C.S., O’Callaghan, M., Bowatte, S., He, J.Z. (2009). Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen rich grassland soils. Nature Geoscience 2: 621–624.