Resham Thapa
Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion
Assistant Research Professional, Agricultural and Soil Amendments
Resham Thapa is an Assistant Research Professional in the Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion at the School of Energy Resources.
Originally from Pyuthan, Nepal, Thapa came Wyoming for his Master’s degree in Agriculture and Applied Economics and has his since proved himself an indispensable resource with a talent for interfacing between academia and industry.
Over the duration of his doctoral program, Thapa conducted numerous experiments in the lab and at the UW greenhouses to document the properties of the coal char as a soil amendment and its effects on soil health and crop yields. He then worked with important partners at the UW Agricultural Extension Centers in Powell and Lingle to conduct field experiments on full crops using the coal char in order to collect comparative result against the current industry standard products. At SER, he continues to analyze those results while collecting more data from future studies.
With expertise and proven leadership on the soil amendment product, Thapa will also be overseeing a collaborative study with Peabody Energy Inc. at their North Antelope Rochelle Mine (NARM) utilizing coal char in reclamation and restoration of mined land.
Thapa has also published extensively on he soil amendment project results to date.
