The SOILSPONGE project breaks new ground by studying the effects of biochar on total soil water storage (sponge function) at the slope scale and 2 modelling scales (catchment, water scarcity footprint).
SOILSPONGE is an interdisciplinary collaboration combining researchers in soil structure, moisture and organic matter dynamics, environmental biology, chemistry, spatiotemporal modelling, life cycle analysis and C footprints within CESAM, as well as vital consultants from Harper-Adams University (HAU, UK), civil engineering from the University of Aveiro, and the award-winning Portuguese company Terraprima.
