2523 Agronomy Hall
716 Farm House Ln
Ames, IA 50011
luisb@iastate.edu
Luis Bentancor was born and raised in Montevideo the Capital City of Uruguay. He studied Agronomy Engineering with focus on forestry in Universidad de la Republica. After that, he did the Euroforester Master Program at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences broadening his horizons through international studies. Back in Uruguay, he joined the Soil and Water Department in the Agronomy Faculty of Universidad de la Republica, and he started his master’s studies in Soil Sciences. Two years later he started to work as a teaching assistant in Edaphology and Management and Soil Conservation. In his master’s thesis, he studied the nutrient extraction and energy yield in Eucalyptus dunnii evaluating different population densities and harvest systems. In 2019, Lui’s joined the Geospatial Laboratory for Soil Informatics at Iowa State University. His project is focused on digital soil mapping of soil change. Particularly, Luis has been using DSM to detect how the mollic epipedon thickens has been changing in Iowa in the last 70 years. Also, he has been exploring the effect of Dakota Access Pipeline installation in dynamic soil properties. And he has been working on evaluating different laboratory methods to capture changes on soil organic carbon stocks for voluntary carbon markets certification.