Cecile De Klein – Treasurer
AgResearch

Dr Cecile De Klein is based at AgResearch’s Invermay campus near Dunedin. Born and educated at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Cecile arrived in New Zealand in 1995, following a 2-year postdoc in Cambridge, UK.

Cecile’s expertise lies in environmental science and soil science. She has a particular interest in research into greenhouse emissions from soils, and the effect of catchment management on nitrogen transformations. She is currently the Programme Leader for the research component of the Dairy InSight Environmental Sustainability platform. She is leading a cross-organisation R&D programme focused on the development of farmer-friendly tools and technologies for reducing losses of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and faecal indicator organisms to our surface water bodies.

Cecile is the New Zealand representative on an international panel to review the IPCC inventory methodology for estimating N2O emissions. She has also coordinated national research programmes on N2O emissions from soil to improve New Zealand’s inventory methodology and has developed the soil acidification module of the OVERSEERR nutrient budgeting model.

Cecile has been the treasurer of NZSSS since March 2003.