Mapping industrial and agricultural ammonia hotspots

Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh

Although Bangladesh made some remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and in improving social and economic outcomes in recent decades, about one-third of the rural population still lives below the upper poverty line most of whom depend on agriculture as their primary source of income. One of the reasons for their poverty is the low productivity that results from sub-optimal use of inputs an...

Composting Agricultural and Industrial Wastes

Agricultural Sector and Industrial Agglomeration∗

In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. Our conclusions show that the parameters in the agricultural sector are crucial to determine the spatial con...

Dissecting and fine-mapping trans-eQTL hotspots

These are slides for a talk that I gave to the Jackson Lab Center for Genome Dynamics (remotely) on 10 Feb 2015, at the Complex Trait Community meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 11 June 2015, the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University on 18 Apr 2016, and for the Queenstown Research Week conference in Nelson, New Zealand, on 1 Sep 2016, and at the Genet...

Ammonia Emissions from Agricultural Operations: Livestock

The global abundance of N fertilizer has dramatically increased agricultural productivity. However, when N escapes to the atmosphere as ammonia (NH 3 ) gas, NH 3 loss can cause undesirable effects. In addition to a loss of a valuable resource, it can have negative impacts on air quality, ecosystem productivity, and human health. Animal production is the largest source of NH 3 emission in North ...