Mario Guevara SantamariaDr. Mario Guevara is Professor of Geostatistics and a research associate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is an expert on digital soil mapping. He completed his PhD studies in the University of Delaware (USA) developing soil organc carbon maps across Mexico and the United States using machine learning and remote sensing. Mario has postdoctoral experience working on selected topics of digital agronomy in the University of California, and in the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Salinity lab. Since 2017, Mario has served as the Pillar 4 (soil data and soil information) representative for the Global Soil Partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization and is a member of the Science Leadership Group of the North American Carbon Program. His research interests are rooted in the spatial and temporal variability of soil properties, soil functions and soil degradation signals from the plot to the continental scale. Read More Read Less