Bio
Adam Liska is an expert in biofuels, life cycle assessment, greenhouse gas emissions, and soils. He teaches about energy sciences, bioenergy, biofuels, and climate change. He has published more than 10 journal articles about greenhouse gas emissions from the production of corn-ethanol, sweet sorghum-ethanol, and cellulosic ethanol, which includes how biofuels made from crop residue can reduce soil carbon and increase carbon dioxide emissions compared to gasoline. He has also performed a life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. beef cattle. In 2022, he published the first greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the state of Nebraska, where he found that beef cattle contribute roughly a quarter of state emissions. He has also researched long-term projections of greenhouse gas emissions and resulting drought in the central United States. He is currently using eddy covariance measurements of CO2 fluxes from the production of corn and soybean to estimate their climate change impacts. (Updated November 2024)