Devon Watt
Education: M.Sc. Department of Natural Resource Sciences in 2016; B.Sc. Atmospheric Science (Honours) from McGill in 2013
Devon finished a Master’s thesis on the impact of several soil physical properties on ammonia volatilization from urea applied to agricultural land, and on testing the validity of the wind tunnel measurement technique used during the experiments. The objective from the soil experiments is to quantify the impacts of soil water content, soil aggregate size and soil type on ammonia volatilization rates to allow them to be better represented in models, and eventually to provide producers with a set of optimum soil conditions to apply urea fertilizer to minimize N loss.
Awards:
2014-2015 - NSERC CGSM; McGill Graduate Excellence Award
2013-2014 - Walter M. Stewart Scholarship; McGill Graduate Excellence Award
2012-2013 - J. Stewart Marshall Prize (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, McGill)
Publications:
Watt, D., Rochette, P., VanderZaag, A., Strachan, I.B., Bertrand, N. [Accepted] Impact of the oasis effect on wind tunnel measurements of ammonia volatilization. Canadian Journal of Soil Science
Other activities and interests:
Department representative for Natural Resource Sciences to Macdonald Campus Graduate Student Society
Ice hockey, indoor and outdoor soccer
Restoring old bicycles and cycling in general
Awards:
2014-2015 - NSERC CGSM; McGill Graduate Excellence Award
2013-2014 - Walter M. Stewart Scholarship; McGill Graduate Excellence Award
2012-2013 - J. Stewart Marshall Prize (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, McGill)
Publications:
Watt, D., Rochette, P., VanderZaag, A., Strachan, I.B., Bertrand, N. [Accepted] Impact of the oasis effect on wind tunnel measurements of ammonia volatilization. Canadian Journal of Soil Science
Other activities and interests:
Department representative for Natural Resource Sciences to Macdonald Campus Graduate Student Society
Ice hockey, indoor and outdoor soccer
Restoring old bicycles and cycling in general
