Profile

Elena Blanc‐Betes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 🇺🇸 US

Career Stage: Senior

CDR Specialization

Soil Carbon

Enhancing carbon storage in agricultural and terrestrial soils through management practices and biochar amendment.

Metrics

Top CDR Publications

1. Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering (2023) 74 citations · Enhanced Weathering

2. Bioenergy Underground: Challenges and opportunities for phenotyping roots and the microbiome for sustainable bioenergy crop production (2022) 24 citations · Soil Carbon

3. Assessing the Returns to Land and Greenhouse Gas Savings from Producing Energy Crops on Conservation Reserve Program Land (2021) 24 citations · Soil Carbon

4. Improving nitrogen cycling in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantify soil N ₂ O, NO, and NH ₃ emissions from enhanced rock weathering with croplands (2023) 15 citations · Enhanced Weathering

5. Climate vs Energy Security: Quantifying the Trade-offs of BECCS Deployment and Overcoming Opportunity Costs on Set-Aside Land (2023) 8 citations · BECCS

6. Improving nitrogen cycling in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantify soil N ₂ O, NO and NH ₃ emissions from enhanced rock weathering with croplands (2023) 4 citations · Enhanced Weathering

7. Land conversion to energy crops for sustainable aviation fuel production reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the United States (2025) 3 citations · Soil Carbon

8. Validating assumptions in calculating carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in Kantola et al., 2023 (2023) 2 citations · Enhanced Weathering

9. Comment on gmd-2023-47 (2023) 0 citations · Enhanced Weathering

10. Supplementary material to “Improving nitrogen cycling in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantify soil N ₂ O, NO and NH ₃ emissions from enhanced rock weathering with croplands” (2023) 0 citations · Enhanced Weathering

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