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Below we provide examples of the outreach activities we are engaged with. The main goals are:

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1) To help disseminate our research results.

2) To inform the stakeholders interested in climate change mitigation and adaptation in natural, urban and terrestrial ecosystems

3) To inform the general public that funds and benefits from our research.

4) To contribute gaining the perspective that researchers may lose if they never take a walk outside their ivory towers.

Popular science blogs & interviews

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2024. El carbono del suelo en las zonas frías del planeta (Interview in RTVE show Españoles en la mar, from minute 38 in spanish)

2024. Soil organic carbon in Earth cold regions is dominated by the particulate fraction (Nature Portfolio Earth & Environment blog)

2023. Microbes hold the key to explain soil carbon losses under climate warming (Nature Portfolio Earth & Environment blog)

2023. City parks are a fundamental soil carbon reservoir worldwide (Nature Portfolio Sustainability blog)

2022. Can past climatic conditions influence soil microbes and functioning responses to present extreme climatic events? (Functional Ecologists' blog)

2022. Fungal communities play key roles in securing ecosystem stability (Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community blog)

2022. A missed opportunity for efficient nutrient use (Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community blog)

2022. Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change (Functional Ecologists' blog)

2021. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming (1-page summary of a Perspectives published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment)

2018. Ecological intensification of agriculture in drylands (Arida Cutis blog, only in spanish)​

2018. Plant domestication and agroecology (Ecomandanga blog, only in spanish)

2018. Ecological intensification and crop diversity (Ecomandanga blog, only in spanish)

2018. Crop traits, organic farming and soil C sequestration (The Applied Ecologist's blog)

2013. Behind the scenes of the Maestre lab (Maestre lab blog)

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2023. Short video about the PhD research of Ana Campos Cáliz on the benefits of soil organic carbon for agricultural production. This video is part of the contest #YoinvestigoYosoyCSIC 

https://yoinvestigoyosoycsic.csic.es/

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2023. Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación (Madrid, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias-CSIC).​

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Workshop for high-school students and the general public

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El suelo en la mitigación del cambio climático y en la sostenibilidad del planeta

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2024. Del laboratorio al aula: la investigación, un camino inspirador para mujeres y niñas​

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Seminar at Colegio SEI La Merced (Madrid) to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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2024. Todo lo que siempre quisiste preguntar a una científica y nunca pudiste.​

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Seminar at IES Madrid Sur (Madrid) to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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2022. High-school 4ºESO students visit at ICA-CSIC La Poveda Experimental Farm. Climate change and biodiversity issues discussed at the Sustainable Agriculture & Climate Change (SACC) trial.

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2023. Workshop on sustainable agriculture with 3ºESO students from the IES La Senda from Getafe . With the participation of @FundacionJuan23

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2022. Foro de Empleo de la ESCET (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos). Discussion panel about career opportunities in science.

Event program

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2021. Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación (Madrid, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias-CSIC)

Online wokshop for the general public

Del contenedor al campo, del plato al tejado: tratamientos y reutilización de residuos orgánicos

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2019. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Hands-on wokshop for high-school students

Investigating the effects of climate change on natural and agro-ecosystems

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2018. Pint of Science Festival (Madrid, De Raimundo Pub)

Science seminar in a pub (science & beer!)

Feeding 9 billion people without destroying the world

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2017. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Hands-on wokshop for high-school students

Anticipating the impacts of climate change

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2018. Two-day workshop in an Elementary School (Madrid, Lycée Français Molière)

What is science and how can we do it

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2018. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Hands-on wokshop for high-school students

Anticipating the impacts of climate change

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2016. XVI Semana de la Ciencia

(Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Ecosystems services of organic agriculture

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2016. One-day workshop in an Elementary School

(Madrid, Lycée Français Molière)

Soil diversity is important and fun

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