Agricultural research

We are involved in several collaborative research projects conducted in agricultural systems.

We recently completed a project with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Ste. Foy, led by Dr. Philippe Rochette. With Dr. Andy VanderZaag of AAFC, Ottawa, we evaluated the ammonia volatilization measured using wind tunnels.

We are currently collaborating with Dr. Zhiming Qi in McGill's Bioresource Engineering Department. Dr. Qi is interested in evaluating hydrological models focusing on the evaporation during the snowmelt period.

We are starting a new collaboration with Dr. Sergio Borgos in McGill's Animal Science Department. Dr. Borgos is interested in the emissions of GHG's during normal dairy cattle operations.

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Results:

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Publications and theses:

Watt, D., Rochette, P., VanderZaag, A., Strachan, I.B., Bertrand, N., 2016. Impact of the oasis effect on wind tunnel measurements of ammonia volatilization. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 96:1–11 dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0025

Devon Watt, 2016. “Impacts of soil physical properties and of the wind-tunnel measurement technique on ammonia volatilization from urea-fertilized soils” 103 pp. MSc thesis, McGill University.