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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

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Contact : Prof. Ian B. Strachan
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
Macdonald Campus of McGill University
21111 Lakeshore Rd., Ste Anne de Bellevue, QC  H9X 3V9
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 © 2015-19 Dr. Ian Strachan; created Nov 15, 2015
Last updated September 5, 2019
  • Home
    • News
  • Meet the AER-heads
    • Lab Alumni
  • Our Research
    • Reservoir GHG
    • Restored peatlands
    • Marsh wetlands
    • Agricultural systems
  • The Toys
  • Teaching
    • ENVB301 Meteorology
    • NRSC/GEOG221 Environment and Health
    • GEOG321 Climatic Environments
    • WILD475 Desert Ecology
  • Join Us
    • PhD Opportunity
  • Contact Us