Aldis KARKLINS

Professor , Dr. habil. agr. Aldis KARKLINS Professor of Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Director Institute of Soil and Plant  Sciences Latvia University of Agriculture Liela iela 2 Jelgava, LV 3001 Latvia Phone:  +371 3005634; +371 9182992 Fax: +371 3027238 E-mail: karklins@latnet.lv             Aldis.Karklins@llu.lv

Born: February 6, 1951

Interests:

• Soil Fertility
• Soil Diagnosis and Classification
• Soil Testing methods

Languages: Latvian, English, Russian

Education:

• Latvia University of Agriculture (Faculty of Agronomy), 1977
• Dr. agr. (Candidate of Science in former USSR, Ph.D. in Western countries), Lithuanian Agricultural Academy, 1982
• Dr. habil. agr., Latvia University of Agriculture, 1997

 

Experience:

Latvia University of Agriculture :

• Agronomist and Senior Researcher, Department of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, 1977 - 1982
• Lecturer and Asssociate Professor, Department of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, 1983 - 1996
• Head, Department of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, 1983 -
• Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, 1993 - 1998
• Professor of Soil Fertility,  Department of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, 1997 - 2005
• Director, Professor of Soil Fertility, Institute of Soil and Plant Sciences, 2005 -

 

Honours and Awards:

• Corresponding Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1997
• Full Member, Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science of Latvia, 1992 -
• Foreign Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry

Professional Activities and Memberships:

• Member, Latvian Council of Science Expert Committee for Agriculture, 1994 - 1996
• Vice-president, Latvian Society of Agronomy, 1994 - 1998
• President, Latvian Society of Soil Science, 1994 -
• Member, American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, 1997 -
• Member, International Society of Soil Science, 1997 -
• Member, Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists, 1996 -

Courses

Latvia University of Agriculture:

• Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use, 1983 -
• Soil Chemistry, 1995 -
• Fertilization Systems, 1995 -
• Soil Testing and Plant Analysis, 1995 -
• Soil Science, 1998 -

Recent/Representative Publications

• A. Karklins. Compatibility of CEC determination methods used in Latvia and Nordic Countries. - Proceedings of NJF-seminar No. 228 "Soil Tillage and Environment", Jokioinen, Finland, 8 - 10 June 1993, pp. 319 - 324.
• A. Karklins, A. Znutina and H. Kaush. Status of H, S, T and V values in Latvia soils. - Papers, International Symposium "Long-term Static Fertilizer Experiments", Warszawa-Krakow, 15 - 18 June 1993, 2, pp. 99 - 107.
• A. Karklins. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers (textbook), Riga:Raziba, 382 pp. (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins. Comparison of some soil total nitrogen determination methods. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1995, vol. 1 (278), pp. 1 - 7.
• A. Karklins. Comparison of determination methods for soil acidity and base saturation. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1996, vol. 3 (280), pp. 3 - 6 (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins. Comparison of CEC determination methods. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1996, vol. 6 (283), P. 26 - 35 (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins. Soil description according to the internationally recognized principles. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1996, vol. 6 (283), pp. 36 - 41 (in Latvian).
• A. Vucans, I. Gemste, A. Karklins. First results of the complex observations of Agricultural Land monitoring (1992 - 1995). - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1996, vol. 6 (283), pp. 42 - 54 (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins. Model of soils agrochemical properties. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1997, vol. 11 (288), pp. 3 - 8 (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins. Comparison of soil organic matter determination methods. - Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture, 1997, vol. 11 (288), pp. 9 - 13.
• A. Karklins. Soil resources inventory and fertilizer use according to the principles of sustainable agriculture. - Research summary for Dr.habil.agr. degree (in Agriculture), 1997, Jelgava, 113 pp. (in Latvian).
• A. Karklins, A. Vucans, I. Gemste. The three level agricultural land monitoring in Latvia. -  Proceedings of the 16^th World Congress of Soil Science, August 20 – 26, 1998, Montpellier, France, on CD-ROM / file://DI/en/symt12.htm, pp. 1 – 5.
• A. Karklins. Plant available phosphorus in Latvian soils and trend in fertilizer use // Bibliotheca Fragmenta Agronomica. - Proceedings International Symposium CIEC, PFS and Workshops IMPHOS, IPI, September 27 – 30, 1998, Pulawy, Poland, vol 3. – Polish Society of Agrotechnical Sciences. - Pulawy, 1998. pp. 310 - 316.
• A. Karklins. Book review “Jie Shen, R. L. Kushwaha. Soil – Machine Interactions: A Finite Element Perspective, 1998, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York-Basel-Hong Kong, 333 p.” / Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation, 1998, vol. 13.
• A. Karklins, A. Vucans, I. Gemste. The three level agricultural land monitoring in Latvia. - 16^th World Congress of Soil Science, August 20 – 26, 1998, Montpellier, France / Summaries of Symposiums, vol. 1, 1998, P 226.
• A.Karklins. Soil map of Latvia - a new version. - Nordisk Jordbruksforskning, 1999, vol. 81, N 2, P 142.
• L.Skrastina, A.Karklins. Nutrient balances in the Mellupite watershed. - Agriculture Scientific Articles/ Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian University of Agriculture, 1999, vol. 66, pp. 186-197.
• A.Karklins. Soil resources management in Latvia. - Rural Development: Contents, Models and Policies in the E.U., Towards the 21th  Century (Book of Abstracts), University of Perugia, 1999, pp. 1-5.
• A. Karklins. Soil degradation in Latvia – current status and actualities. - Conference “Soils in Central European Countries, New Independent States, Central Asian Countries and in Mongolia”, August 26 – 29, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic.
• A. Karklins. Use of World Reference Base for Soil Resources in Latvia.- 3^rd International Crop Science Congress 2000 ICSC, August 17 – 22, 2000, Hamburg, Germany.
• A.Karklins. Soil testing in Latvia. - In: Fertilizers and Fertilization/ Journal of the Polish Fertilizer Society - CIEC, 2000, N 2(3), pp. 10-18.
• A.Karklins. Model for the calculation of nutrient offtake by crop: 'OFTAKE ' model. - Journal of the Polish Fertilizer Society - CIEC, 2001, N 1(6), pp. 63-74.
• H.ten Berge, E. Fotyma, P.Cermak, R.Bujnovski, A.Karklins, A.Pogulis, J.Bos. Using crop nitrogen response functions in nutrient fertilizer recommendation at field and farm level.   - Journal of the Polish Fertilizer Society - CIEC, 2001, N 2(7), pp. 77-94.
• R.Bujnovski, E. Fotyma, T.Jadczyszyn, A.Karklins, J.Klir, et al. Towards the strategy for phosphorus and potassium rate calculation. - Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava), 2002, vol. 48, pp. 44-50.
• A. Karklins. A comparative study of the Latvian Soil Classification with WRB. - In: Soil Classification 2001. E. Micheli, F. O. Nachtergaele, R. J. A. Jones, L. Montanarella (eds). European Soil Bureau Research Report No. 7, EUR 20398 EN, (2002). Luxembourg: Office for Official publications of the European Communities, pp. 199-209.
• A.Karklins. Fertilize recommendations to meet the requirements of Good Agricultural Practice. - In: Fertilisers in Context with Resource Management in Agriculture (Ed. by E.Schnug, J.Nagy, T.Nemeth, et al.). Proc. 14 th Int. Symposium on Fertilizers,   Faculty of Agriculture, University of Debrecen, June 22-25, 2003, Debrecen, Hungary, 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 272-278. 
• A. Karklins. WRB and Latvian soil classification – applicability for soil information users // In: Soil Classification 2004, Ed. by: P. V. Krasilnikov / Book of abstracts of the International Conference and Field Workshop, Petrozavodsk, Russia, August 3 – 8, 2004. – Petrozavodsk, 2004, P. 51 – 52.
• A. Karklins, J. Livmanis. Soil quality monitoring in Latvia – past and present situation // In: Eurosoil 2004 Abstracts / Book of abstracts of the International Congress, Freiburg, Germany, September 4 – 12, 2004. – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 2004, P. 243.
• Soil Atlas of Europe. – European Soil Bureau Network, European Commission, 2005. – 128 p. A. Karklins: Author and contributor.
• A. Karklins. Soil information in Latvia. In: Soil Resources of Europe, 2^nd edition. R.J.A. Jones, B. Hou?kova, P. Bullock and L. Montanarella (eds). European Soil Bureau Research Report No. 9, EUR 20559 EN, (2005), 420 pp. Office for Official publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, pp. 201 – 209.
• A. Karklins, I. Lipenite. Potassium balance in selected farms of Latvia / Fertilizers and Fertilization: Journal of the Polish Fertilizer Society – CIEC, Nr 3 (24), 2005, pp. 81 – 88.
• A. Karklins, I. Lipenite. Reference values for NPK balance calculations in Latvia // Agronomijas Vestis (Latvian Journal of Agronomy) / LLMZA, LLU LF. 2005, No. 8: Jelgava: LLU, 2005, 32. – 38. lpp.
• Augsnes diagnostika un apraksts: Lauku darbu metodika / Sast. A. Karklinš. – Jelgava: LLU, 2007. – 120 lpp.
• Augsnes diagnostika un apraksts / Sast. A. Karklins. – Jelgava: LLU, 2008. – 336 lpp.
• Environmental Assessment of Soil for Monitoring Desertification in Europe / M. Kibblewhite, J.L. Rubio, C. Kosmas, R. Jones, D. Arrouays, S. Huber, F. Verheijen, Cranfield University Press, 2007. – 62 p. A. Karklins – contributor.
• Csathó, P., Sisik, I., Radimszky, A., Karklins, A., et al. Agriculture as a source of phosphorus causing eutrophication in Central and Eastern Europe. - Soil Use and Management, 2007, No. 23 (Suppl. 1): pp. 36 – 56.
• Moran X., Richer de Forges A., Arrouays D., Karklins A., et al. Une analyse des stratégies d'échantillonnage des réseaux de surveillance de la qualité des sols en Europe. -  Etude et Gestion des Sols: Association Franeaise pour L’Etude du Sol, Vol 14, No. 4, 2007, pp. 1 – 9.

Research Projects:

• A. Karklins (Co-author). Agricultural Run-off Management Study in Latvia ( Swedish Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Latvia University of Agriculture). Swedish Government. (1992 - 1993).
• A. Karklins (Coordinator of Baltic part of Project). Soil Classification and Land Evaluation in the Baltic States (Cornell University, Agricultural Universities of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia). USDA (1994 - 1997).
• A. Karklins (Head of Latvia part of Project). Soil Classification in Latvia ( Latvia University of Agriculture, Agricultural Universities of Denmark, Norway and Finland). Nordic Council of Ministers. (1995 - 1996).
• A.Karklins  (Head of Latvian part of Project). Environmental Assessment of Soil for Monitoring. (Coordinator - Cranmfield University). EC No. 022713.

• A. Karklins. (Head of Project). Three Level Agricultural Land Monitoring in Latvia. Latvian Council of Science (1994 - 1996).
• A. Karklins. (Head of Project). Soil Diagnosis and Classification According to the Internationally Recognized Systems. Latvian Council of Science (1997 - 2000).
• A.Karklins (Coordinator of the Latvian Part of Project). Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Database.Assessment of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability ton Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe. International Soil Reference and Information Centre (1998 -  ).
• A.Karklins (Participant). Managing Inputs of Nutrients to Avoid Insufficient or Excess - MAINTAINE. INCO-COPERNICUS PL 950231 (1998-2002).
• A. Karklins. (Head of Project). Fertilization Optimization According to the Principles of Good Agricultural Practice. Latvian Council of Science (2001 -2003).  
• A. Karklins. (Head of Project). Development of Integrated Soil Information System in Latvia. Latvian Council of Science (2001 -2007).

Last update 27.12.2007