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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv6.5.5//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oursymposium.sites.unlv.edu/ X-WR-CALNAME:Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Fall 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium X-WR-CALDESC: REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211115T000000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211120T000000 DTSTAMP:20211027T000000 UID:MEC-4ea6a546c19499318091a9df40a13181@oursymposium.sites.unlv.edu CREATED:20211027 LAST-MODIFIED:20211110 PRIORITY:5 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:HNSE-P5-4. Chemically Exhausted Biochar as a Sustainable Replacement for Chemical Fertilizers DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nAlexa Smolinski1\nAhdee Zeidman2, 3\nFaculty Mentor: Erick R. Bandala, Ph.D.2\n1Nevada State College\n2Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute\n3Department of Water Resource Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas\nABSTRACT\nBiochar is a carbon rich solid created from agricultural wastes via oxygen-less heat treatment (i.e., pyrolysis). It is used as a soil amendment for its potential to mitigate soil degradation and as an alternative for water treatment because of its ability to absorb nutrients. Recently, biochar has been successfully used by our research group in the removal of nutrients from contaminated water. After exhaustion, biochar has been found to retain significant amounts of nutrients that can be used to improve soil quality, plant growth, and viability. In this research, chemically exhausted biochar used for the removal of nitrate ions in water was incorporated into soil at different ratios and used to grow cherry tomato plants over the course of four weeks and compared against the use of chemical fertilizer. Results suggest chemically exhausted biochar aided in increased plant growth and biomass production of cherry tomato plants because of the increased nutrients supplied by the chemically exhausted biochar compared to the use of chemical fertilizer which created inhabitable conditions for the plants. These methods and results provide a foundation for future experiments exploring the use of water treatment chemically exhausted biochar as a soil amendment.\n URL:https://oursymposium.sites.unlv.edu/program/chemically-exhausted-biochar-as-a-sustainable-replacement-for-chemical-fertilizers/ ORGANIZER;CN=The Office of Undergraduate Research:MAILTO:our@unlv.edu CATEGORIES:Health & Natural Sciences & Engineering END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR