Rate My Professor Md. Abdul Kader

Dr. Md. Abdul Kader serves as Associate Professor and Discipline Coordinator for Agriculture and Food Technology in the School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences at the University of the South Pacific, Samoa Campus. He is a distinguished soil scientist with more than 25 years of teaching and research experience in soil fertility, soil organic matter, and nitrogen availability across institutions in Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. Kader holds a PhD in Applied Biological Science (2012) and an MSc in Physical Land Resources (Soil Science option, Great Distinction, 2006) from Ghent University, Belgium, an MSc in Soil Science (A+, 2000) and BSc in Agriculture (First Class, 1994) from Bangladesh Agricultural University. Before joining USP in 2017, he was affiliated with Bangladesh Agricultural University and conducted post-doctoral research at Murdoch University, Australia via the Endeavour Fellowship (2015). He has supervised six PhD students and over 50 Master's theses.

Dr. Kader's research specializes in soil fertility, nitrogen mineralization, carbon sequestration, soil organic matter quality and stabilization mechanisms, N2 fixation, agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint analysis, soil enzyme activities, and conservation agriculture. He has authored over 80 refereed journal and conference papers and five book chapters, 54 of which appear in high-impact journals. Notable publications include: Omuto et al. (2023) "Harmonization service and global library of models to support country-driven global information on salt-affected soils" in Scientific Reports; Khan et al. (2023) "Complementing compost with biochar for agriculture, soil remediation and climate mitigation" in Advances in Agronomy; Kader et al. (2022) "Long-term Conservation Agriculture increases nitrogen use efficiency by crops, land equivalent ratio and soil carbon stock in a subtropical rice-based cropping system" in Field Crops Research; Suruban et al. (2022) "Influence of selected composted organic amendments..." in Agriculture; and Saha et al. (2022) "Potential methane emission reduction strategies from rice cultivation systems in Bangladesh" in Journal of Environmental Management. His accolades include USP Research Awards (2018, 2019), Future Thinkers’ Awards (ACIAR, 2023), VLIR ICP-PhD Scholarship (2007), and Bangladesh Agricultural University best publication award (2018). Dr. Kader is a member of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science, Soil Science Society of Australia, and the executive committee of the Australasian Soil and Plant Analysis Council. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in soil science and plant nutrition.