The International Biochar Initiative (IBI)

Technical Session 1: Biochar Production

• John Briggs: “Rapid Small-scale Biochar Production Methods”
• Gareth Clay: “Are the UK Peat lands a Natural Biochar Production Facility?”
• Adriana Downie: “Feedstock Choice: An Economic/agronomic Balance”
• Mariska Evelien: “The Potential for Atmospheric Reductions of CO₂ through Biochar in the UK”
• James Fournier: “Biochar Batch Maker”
• Bruno Glaser: “The potential of soils to produce Biochar”
• Bruno Glaser: “Biomass Pyrolysis for Clean Energy Production Combined with Long-Term Carbon Sequestration and Soil Fertility Enhancement”
• Andreas Hornung: ” Biochar from Intermediate Pyrolysis as a By-Product from Power Generation or from Pre-Conditioning for Gasification of Different Ash-Rich Biomasses”
• Odonchimeg Ichinkhorloo: “Low Tech Biochar Production in the Context of Ecotourism Development in the Lake Hovsgol Region of Mongolia”
• Witold Kwapinski: “Investigations of Methods of Recovery Products from Pyrolysis and Gasification and their Applications”
• Guillermo Rein: “Gains and Threats from Smoldering Combustion to Biochar Production and Storage”
• Andrew Ross: “Production and Properties of Biochar from the Slow Pyrolysis of Macroalgae”
• Elisabeth Schroder: “Waste Biomass as a Source for Activated Carbon Production”
• Yoshiyuki Shinogi: “Biochar: Our Previous Research Outputs”
• Edward Someus: “3R Biotechnology Integrated Industrialized Biochar Production”
• Dorisel Torres: “Biomass Availability, Energy Consumption, and Opportunities for Biochar use in Rural Households of Western Kenya”
• Shuji Yoshizawa: “The Effect of the Carbonization Condition on the Microstructure of Bamboo Charcoal with a Practical Furnace"

Technical Session 2: Biochar Characterization

• Carlos Francisco Brazão Vieira Alho: “Chemical Oxidation of Eucalyptus benthamii Charcoal”
• Philippa Ascough: “Black Carbon Characterization: Implications for Understanding Biochar Behavior in Depositional Environments”
• Christelle Braun: “BiocharTIS and BiocharDB: A Novel Biochar Standard and a Research Database for a Unified Description and Storage of Biochar Experiments”
• Yin Chan: “Nitrogen Content and Availability of Biochars from Slow Pyrolysis”
• Julia Gaskin: “Effect of Pyrolysis Chars on Corn Yield and Soil Quality in Loamy Sand Soil of the Southeastern United States”
• Emilie Grand-Clement: “Burning of Uplands Peat Soils: Effects on Pyrogenic Carbon Production”
• Mingxin Gou: “Characterization of Biochar Generated from Different Organic Residues”
• Mustafa Kamal Hossain: “Environmental and Agronomic Characterization of Wastewater sludge Biochar”
• Martin Jones: ” Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Biochars and Related Materials”
• Stephen Joseph: “Towards an Understanding of the Properties and Structure of High Mineral Ash Biochars”
• Stephen Joseph: “Examination of Different Structures in Organo-Clay Microaggregates and Possible Mechanism for their Formation”
• Stephen Joseph: “Development of  a Synthetic Terra Preta (STP); Characterization and Initial Research Findings”
• Jie Liu: “Biochar Sequestration in Agricultural Soil: Microbiological Activity and Short-term Degradability”
• F Miglietta: “The Charcoal-burning Site of Val Vobbia (1630 – 1950): A Resource for Examining Biochar Oxidation and Long-term Interactions with Living Soil Organisms”
• Adonis Moreira: “Extractants and Availability of Micronutrients in Central Amazonian Dark Earth Soil”
• Etelvino Henrique Novotny: ”¹³C-NMR Spectroscopy Evaluation of Different Pyrolysis Feedstock”
• Colleen Rostad: “Changes in Chemical Composition of Wood Chars as a Result of Varying Charring Conditions”
• David Rutherford: “The Sorption of Water by Wood Char”
• Yoshiyuki Shinogi: “Biochar: Our Previous Research Outputs”
• Guixue Song: “Composition of the Humin Fraction and Coarse Char of Terra Preta de Índios Soils by NMR, Multivariate Curve Resolution, and Scanning Electron Microscopy”
• Christoph Steiner: “Pyrolytic Char Characterization for its Use as Soil Amendment”
• Robert Wershaw: “Development of Porosity and Surface Area in Chars due to Thermal Degradation of Wood and Wood Components”
• Jeremy Wingate: “Mechanisms of Metal Sorption by Non-activated Charcoals”
• Shuji Yoshizawa: “Proliferation of Aerobic Complex Microorganisms during Composting of Food Industry Waste with Charcoal” 

Technical Session 3: Biochar Amendments to Soil

• Lyn Abbott: “Differential Effects of High Temperature Wood Biochars and Low Temperature Leaf and Stem Biochar on Wheat Growth and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization under Drought and Optimum Water Conditions”
• Murilo Rodrigues Arruda: “Use of Charcoal, Chicken Manure and Bone Meal in Guarana Crop”
• Kate Ballantine: “Ecosystem Functions of Restored Wetlands Amended with Biochar”
• Silvia Baronti: “The Italian Biochar Initiative (ITABI): Effects on soil Fertility and on Crops Production”
• Paul Blackwell: “Progress in Evaluation of Biochar for Benefits to Agriculture and Environment in Western Australia”
• Sander Bruun: “Stability and Physical Protection of Biochar in Soil”
• Annette Cowie: “Decomposition of Biochars in Soil (Vertisol) and their Turnover Time: An Important Factor Affecting the Greenhouse Balance”
• Vinicius de Melo Benites: “Agronomic Effect of Humic-like Substances Produced from Charcoal”
• Nikolaus Foidl: “Productivity Mapping Detects Charcoal/Ash Stripes at 18 Years”
• Lydiah Gatere: “Crop Yield with Biochar in Conservation Agriculture Along Climatic and Soil Gradients in Zambia”
• Alfred Gathorne-Hardy: “Surface Application of Char to Pasture—Changes in Yield, Diversity, Forage Quality, and its Incorporation into the Soil”
• Hongyan Jin: “Soil Microbial Community Response to Amending Field Soils with Corn Stover Biochar”
• Koji Kameyama: “Effects of the Addition of Bagasse-char on Nitrogen Adsorption Characteristics and Hydraulic Properties of Calcaric Dark Red Soil:
• Joseph Kimetu: “Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of Biochar”
• Christian Knoblauch: “Biochar in Rice-based Systems: Impact on Carbon Mineralization and Trace Gas Emissions”
• Johannes Lehmann: “Crop Yield, Nutrient Uptake and Leaching, Soil Water Availability, and Nitrous Oxide Emissions with Biochar from Different Feedstocks and Produced at Different Temperatures”
• Rodrigo Santana Macedo: “The Effects of the Application of Charcoal Residues Combined with Phosphorus and Nitrogen at a Banana Plantation in a Yellow Oxisol in the Central Amazon, Brazil”
• Julie Major: “Biochar Application to Soil Reduces Nutrient Leaching in the Field”
• Antonio S Mangrich: “Castor Meal Biochar as an Amendment and Slow Release Fertilizer”
• Binh Nguyen: “Biochar Decomposition Under Different Water and Temperature Regimes”
• Joseph Pignatello: “Attenuation of Char Surface Activity Over Time by Naturally-occurring Substances in Soil”
• Barry Rawlins: “Does Increasing Biochar Content Lead to Soil Aggregation and Soil Carbon Preservation?”
• Yoshiyuki Shinogi: “Biochar: Our Previous Research Outputs”
• Helen Sneath: “Charcoal as a Microbial Carrier for Organisms Involved in Soil Bioremediation”
• Saran Paul Sohi: “Evaluating Mechanisms of Organic Matter; Biochar Interactions in Soil”
• Zakaria Solaiman: ” Low Temperature Mallee Biochar Enhances Microbial Activity and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization after a Drought Year”
• Sibylle Steinbeiss: “Soil as a Carbon Deposit: Stability and Biological Activity of Synthetic Carbons in Soil”
• Christoph Steiner: “Enhancement of Potting Soil Performance with Biochar Amendments”
• Lukas Van Zwieten: “Agro-economic Valuation of Biochar using Field-derived Data”
• Naomi Wells: “How does Biochar Regulate Nitrous Oxide Emissions after Addition to Soil?”
• Zhen Xu: “Fossil Biochar in Soils in NE England and its Impact on Crop Growth”
• Edward Yeboah:” Food Sufficiency and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Soils: Is Biochar the Option?”
• Edward Yeboah: “Improving Soil Productivity through Biochar Amendments to Soils”

Technical Session 4: Carbon trading, Commercialization, and Policy Issues Concerning Biochar

• Joana Bezerra: “The Environmental Crisis and Sustainability: What is the role of Biochar?”
• Mark Breiter: “The CarbonZero Project”
• Karl Frogner: “A Simple Pass-through Model of Carbon Trading”
• Alfred Gathorne-Hardy: “The Availability of Biomass from Marginal Sources for Biochar Production in Eastern England—Economics, Sustainability, and GHG Balance”
• Rebecca Hood-Nowotny: “A Soil Scientist’s Business Analysis of Biochar”
• Ronal W Larson: “Carbon Trading and Biochar Policy Issues”
• Ronal W Larson: “Present Value of Future Biochar Economic Benefits”
• John Mathews: “The New Green Revolution could be Black”
• Terry Mock: “Sustainable Land Development with Biochar”
• Lukas Van Zweiten: “Biochar Holds Potential for Reducing Soil Emissions of Greenhouse Gases”
• Phillip Watts: ” The Commercial Realities of Establishing a Biochar Business”
• Dominic Woolf: “Net Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biochar Production—The Time Dimension”