Growing Forward - Sustainable Agriculture Environmental Systems Initiative
Title: Sustaining Grassland Systems in the Face of Climate Change
Principal Investigator: BARON, VERNON S
Team Members: BELANGER, GILLES; BERTRAND, ANNICK; CASTONGUAY, FRANCOIS; CASTONGUAY, YVES; IWAASA, ALAN; LEMKE, REYNALD L; MCCONKEY, BRIAN G; SCHELLENBERG, MICHAEL P; THOMPSON, DONALD J; TREMBLAY, GAETAN; WANG, HONG
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Exploring new farming systems that promote environmental health and enhance ecosystem services
Principal Investigator: BEAUCHEMIN, KAREN A
Team Members: ANGERS, DENIS; BITTMAN, SHABTAI; BOEHM, MARIE; DESJARDINS, RAYMOND L; ELLERT, BENJAMIN H; GREGORICH, EDWARD G; HELGASON, ROBERTA L; IWAASA, ALAN; JANZEN, HELMUT H; KOENIG, KAREN M; MCALLISTER, TIM A; MCGINN, SEAN M; NEWLANDS, NATHANIEL K; ROCHETTE, PHILIP
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Investigations of land use change and BMP implementation scenarios through the application of non-point source water quality modeling to reduce nutrient loadings to tributaries in the Red-Assiniboine Basin
Principal Investigator: BENOY, GLENN
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Assessing biological community shifts, and nitrogen and carbon transformations during winter in Canadian agricultural soils
Principal Investigator: CHANTIGNY, MARTIN
Team Members: ANGERS, DENIS; BITTMAN, SHABTAI; BOITEAU, GILLES; BUCKLEY, KATHERINE; GOYER, CLAUDIA M; HAO, XIYING; JANZEN, HELMUT H; LAPEN, DAVID R; LARNEY, FRANCIS J; NORONHA, CHRISTINE M; ROCHETTE, PHILIPPE; ZEBARTH, BERNIE J
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Development of ecological performance standards for sediments, nutrients and pesticides in streams across gradients of agricultural intensity
Principal Investigator: CHOW, THIEN L
Team Members: BENOY, GLENN
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Understanding the impact of manure management practices on pathogen survival and transport in tile drained agricultural soils.
Principal Investigator: FULLER, KEITH D
Team Members: BEZANSON, GREGORY S; BISHOP, GARY; CHOW, THIEN L; FILLMORE, SHERRY A; GRIMMETT, MARK; RODD, VERNON
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Determining interactions between land use and climate to evaluate impacts and adaptations to climate variability and change
Principal Investigator: GAMEDA, SAMUEL
Team Members: BOURGEOIS, GAETAN; DEJONG, REINDER; DESJARDINS, RAYMOND L; HUFFMAN, EDWARD; NEWLANDS, NATHANIEL K; QIAN, BUDONG
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Understanding and predicting nitrogen dynamics in Canadian cropping systems to improve efficiency of nitrogen utilization and reduce environmental losses
Principal Investigator: GRANT, CYNTHIA A
Team Members: BITTMAN, SHABTAI; BLACKSHAW, ROBERT E; BOURGEOIS, GAETAN; CAMBOURIS, ATHYNA; CHANTIGNY, MARTIN; CHOW, THIEN L; DEJONG, REINDER; DRURY, CRAIG; FULLER, KEITH D; GAN, YANTAI; GREGORICH, EDWARD G; GRIMMETT, MARK; HARKER, KNEIL; JOHNSON, ERIC N; LAFOND, JOSEPH
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Soil organic matter dynamics in a warming world
Principal Investigator: GREGORICH, EDWARD G
Team Members: BEYAERT, RONALD P; ELLERT, BENJAMIN H; HELGASON, ROBERTA L; JANZEN, HELMUT H; KROETSCH, DAVID J; TARNOCAI, CHARLES; VANDENBYGAART, ALBERT
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: The future Canadian agriculture system in a changing world: environmental and economic adaptation, impacts, and risks
Principal Investigator: HUFFMAN, EDWARD
Team Members: BRIERLEY, JAMES A; NEWLANDS, NATHANIEL K; SMITH, WARD; WANG, HONG
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Assessment and management of risk to water from emerging organic contaminants in agroecosystems
Principal Investigator: LARNEY, FRANCIS J
Team Members: CESSNA, ALLAN J; LAPEN, DAVID R; MASSE, DANIEL; MCALLISTER, TIM A; OLFERT, OWEN O; TOPP, EDWARD; TURKINGTON, TKELLY
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: AeroNet: Aerobiota Monitoring and Forecasting Network
Principal Investigator: LEVESQUE, ANDRE C
Team Members: BACH, SUSAN J; BILKHU, SATPAL; BISSETT, JOHN D; CARISSE, ODILE; DELAQUIS, PASCAL J; DIARRA, MOUSSA S; HAMBLETON, SARAH; LEWIS, CHRISTOPHER T; REDHEAD, SCOTT A; SEIFERT, KEITH A; TAMBONG, JAMES
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Development of an environmentally-sound dry anaerobic digestion bioprocess to reduce odours, pathogens, and organic pollutants and recover usable green energy and value added by-products from farm solid wastes and energy crops.
Principal Investigator: MASSE, DANIEL
Team Members: MASSE, LUCIE; TALBOT, GUYLAINE; TOPP, EDWARD
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Integrated Earth Observation Information on Crops and Soils for Agri-Environmental Monitoring in Canada
Principal Investigator: MCNAIRN, HEATHER
Team Members: FRASER, WALTER R; JARVIS, IAN E; MERZOUKI, AMINE; NEWLANDS, NATHANIEL K; PACHECO, ANNA; QIAN, BUDONG; SHANG, JIALI
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Improving the resilience of Canadian agro-ecosystems to climate change and variability
Principal Investigator: NEILSEN, DENISE
Team Members: ACHARYA, SURYA N; BELAIR, GUY; BENOIT, DIANE L; BOIVIN, GUY; BOURGEOIS, GAETAN; BRIERLEY, JAMES A; CARISSE, ODILE; EHRET, DAVID L; FORGE, THOMAS; GAMEDA, SAMUEL; JENNI, SYLVIE; JUDD, GARY J; KENNEY, ELIZABETH A; KHANIZADEH, SHAHROKH; NEILSEN, GERRY H; NEW
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Linking Soil Nitrogen Dynamics to Gaseous (N2O and NH3) Emissions in Agricultural Soils
Principal Investigator: ROCHETTE, PHILIPPE
Team Members: ANGERS, DENIS; CHANTIGNY, MARTIN
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Herbicide use reduction by inter-row weed emergence stimulation and detection.
Principal Investigator: SIMARD, MARIEJOSEE
Team Members: NURSE, ROBERT; PANNETON, BERNARD
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Unlocking Soil Processes and Nutrient Cycling Using a Heritage of Long-Term Field Experiments
Principal Investigator: SMITH, ELWIN G
Team Members: ELLERT, BENJAMIN H; JANZEN, HELMUT H; LARNEY, FRANCIS J
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Development of gene expression indicators and genetic markers to improve nitrogen use efficiency and water use efficiency and accelerate adaptation to climate change in potatoes.
Principal Investigator: TAI, HELEN
Team Members: CAMBOURIS, ATHYNA; DEKOEYER, DAVID; LI, XIUQING; MOHR, RAMONA M; MURPHY, AGNES M; ZEBARTH, BERNIE J
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Assessment and management of water and air quality risks associated with the use of organic fertilizers
Principal Investigator: TOPP, EDWARD
Team Members: BACH, SUSAN J; BEZANSON, GREGORY S; BRASSARD, JULIE; DELAQUIS, PASCAL J; DIARRA, MOUSSA S; HOUDE, ALAIN; INGLIS, GORDON D; JONES, TINEKE H; KALMOKOFF, MARTIN L; LANTHIER, MARTIN; LAPEN, DAVID R; MASSE, DANIEL; MASSE, LUCIE; MCALLISTER, TIM A; SHARMA, RANJ
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Mitigating nitrate contamination of vulnerable aquifers by agricultural production
Principal Investigator: ZEBARTH, BERNIE J
Team Members: BITTMAN, SHABTAI; DANIELESCU, SERBAN; FORGE, THOMAS; GRIMMETT, MARK; KENNEY, ELIZABETH A; NEILSEN, DENISE; SMITH, SCOTT C
DURATION: 2009-2013
Title: Soil and plant phosphorus assessment and modeling in Canadian agro-ecosystems
Principal Investigator: ZIADIKHELIFI, NOURA
Team Members: BELANGER, GILLES; CADEMENUN, BARBARA J; GRANT, CYNTHIA A; HAMEL, CHANTAL; LAFOND, JEAN; LAJEUNESSE, JULIE; LALANDE, ROGER; MALHI, SUKHDEV S; PAGEAU, DENIS; TREMBLAY, GAETAN; ZHANG, TIEQUAN
DURATION: 2009-2013