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Our team working on sustainable farm management practices
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Navin Ramankutty, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia
Navin is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Global Environmental Change and Food Security at the University of British Columbia.
His current research uses global data and models to explore strategies for sustainable food systems. He has contributed to international scientific assessments including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, IPCC, and IPBES.
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Elena Bennett, Professor and Canada Research Chair, McGill University
Elena is a Professor and CRC (Tier 1) Chair of Sustainability Science at McGill University.
Her work focuses on the interactions among ecosystem services and how we can manage these interactions for multifunctional working landscapes. She was the leader of the Montérégie Connection project that worked with stakeholders to understand the role of landscape connectivity in the provision of about a dozen ecosystem services and how those might change across a range of future scenarios.
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Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Professor, University of Guelph
Claudia is a Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences of the University of Guelph.
Claudia leads an internationally-renowned research program utilizing the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions to determine the carbon footprint of food, feed, and fuel produced by agriculture. Claudia currently leads several projects focused on evaluating how soil health impacts ecosystem services, including a new $2 million infrastructure using large scale soil weighing lysimeter.
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Kate Congreves, Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Kate is an Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Saskatchewan.
Her research supports sustainable agriculture by better understanding the mechanisms that regulate nutrient cycling, soil health, and greenhouse gas emissions—and determining the implications for ecosystem functioning.
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Helen Baulch, Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Helen is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability of the University of Saskatchewan.
Her research focuses on water quality, eutrophication and algal blooms, winter limnology, biogeochemical cycling, and greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
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Jumi Gogoi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
Jumi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo.
Her research integrates geospatial datasets (earth observation, census, and precision-agriculture data) with machine and deep learning to study agricultural systems. She examines crop production, profitability, and the impacts of legacy wetlands, aiming to support conservation and sustainable agricultural management.
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Jeff Liebert, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
Jeff is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia.
With interdisciplinary training & extensive farmer-focused experience, Jeff explores the co-benefits and trade-offs associated with multifunctional agricultural landscapes.
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Jon MacDonald, PhD Student, University of Saskatchewan
Jon is a PhD Researcher at the University of Saskatchewan.
Jon's research explores the intricate relationship between food systems, wetlands, and agriculture.
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Setareh Alamdar, PhD Student, University of Guelph
Setareh is a PhD researcher at the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, and a Research Assistant at the Wagner-Riddle Lab.
Her focus is on advancing agricultural research by integrating AI and remote sensing into the analysis of Lysimeter water content data to understand the impact of climate change on the water aspect of the agricultural sector. She aims to contribute to more efficient and sustainable agricultural practices.
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Daphnée Ferland, Master's Student, University of Saskatchewan
Daphnée is a Master’s researcher at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Plant Sciences.
She is investigating the effects of nitrogen fertilizer management on the greenhouse gas emissions of a canola-wheat cropping system in Saskatchewan.