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Graduate student listing

Last Updated: 17 September 2010

Ph.D. Students

Khaled Alotaibi (Schoenau)
- biofuel & crop processing by-products as soil organic amendments

Melissa Arcand (Farrell & Knight), NSERC CGS-D award recipient
- cycling of biologically fixed nitrogen under pulse production

Samiran Banerjee (Siciliano)
- spatial scaling of nitrifier & denitrifier functional gene prevalence and diversity

Navid Bazghaleh (Knight & Hamel)
- bioactive molecules & their function in soil microbial interactions with chickpea
Anisha Biswaray (Walley & Germida)
- impact of rhizobium–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interactions on pulse crop production
Adriana Navarro Borrell (Hamel & Germida)
- optimizing the sequence of annual pulses in agriculture systems

Martin Brummell (Siciliano)
- biogeography and community interactions of microbes in polar soils

Henry Chau (Si)
- effect of fungal surface properties on soil water repellency & hydraulic properties

Joel Ens (Farrell & Belanger), NSERC PGS-D award recipient
- nutrient dynamics in short-rotation intensive culture willow plantations
Phillip Garvey (Siciliano)Scholarship
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Ryan Hangs (Schoenau), NSERC CGS-D and CGSR Dean's Scholarship recipient
- environmental constraints influencing the growth of hybrid willow
- proud dad of Rosalie and Raymond
Nazrul Islam (Germida)
- impact of AMF inoculants on indigenous microbial communities under pulse production

Gourango Kar (Schoenau & Peak)
- effects of manure management practices on phosphorous speciation

Tom King (Schoenau)
- manure management effects on P & N loading and mobility

Min Li (Si)
- spatial variability and dynamics of soil water

Ravinder Pannu [Siciliano & Nelson O'Driscoll (Acadia Univ.)]
- factors affecting mercury volatilization from soils

Lindsay Tallon (Si); School of Environment & Sustainability
- spatial variability of water and energy in mine waste soil covers
Ha Van Thuan (Pennock & Bentham)
- assessment and modeling of carbon change due to forest expansion
Brian Wallace [Bedard-Haughn & Derek Lynch (NSAC)]
- dynamics of soil nitrogen loss from crop rotations that support organic dairy systems

Tanja Wildemann (Siciliano); Toxicology
- cardiovascular effects of mercury vapor, methylmercury and lead in rodents

Nils Yannikos (Walley & Farrell)
- urease & nitrification inhibitors  improve N use efficiency and reduce GHG emissions

M.Sc. Students
Hasan Ahmed (Schoenau)
- biochars as amendments for agricultural soils in Saskatchewan
Jennifer Bentz (Farrell); NSERC GGS-M & CGSR Dean's Scholarship recipient
- soil effects on root exudation patterns in metal hyperaccumulator and excluder plants
Aaron Betts (Farrell & Siciliano); Dep. of Soil Science Entrance Scholarship recipient
- amelioration of metal toxicity using soil amendments

Louis-Pierre Comeau (Bedard-Haughn); NSERC GGS-M & CGSR Dean's Scholarship recipient
- impact of pulse crops on carbon & nitrogen dynamics
Jessica Cutter; Toxicology
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Cody David [Farrell & Helgason (Biol. Engineer.)]
- net warming potential of dryland and irrigated agricultural production systems

Alana DeBusschere
- effect of tarballs on water storage in reclaimed soils

Kathy Dobrovolskaya (Si); School of Environment & Sustainability
- maximizing soil water storage in waste-rock soil covers

Brett Ewen (Grevers & Schoenau)
- effect of paraplowing on soil properties & crop yield under irrigated management
Jordan Hamilton (Peak & Farrell)
- soil type effects metal speciation in smelter-impacted soils of the Boreal forest

Gazali Issah (Kimaro)
- effects of alley cropping systems on yield and nutrition of forage crops in Saskatchewan

Kyle James (Siciliano & Farrell); Toxicology Program
- identifying critical remediation targets for a northern brownfield
Meghan Johnson (Si)
- soil water dynamics in hydrocarbon affected and layered coarse textured soils
Erin Karppinen (Farrell & Siciliano)
- role of phosphorus in the bioremediation of petroleum impacted soils

Hannah Konschuh (Helgason & Bedard-Haughn)
- characterizing microbial communities associated with buried carbon across a landscape
Aaron Mackay (Farrell & Lemke)
- comparison of nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated and dryland cropping systems
Zaho Matheos (Bedard-Haughn)
- wetlands and greenhouse gas flux

Sean McKnight (Knight)
- phosphorus fertilization effects on nitrogen fixation

Dean Ngombe (Knight & Wolf)
- on-farm remediation of pesticide wastes using biobeds
Augustine Osei (Kimaro)
- estimating carbon stocks in tree biomass & soils in rotational woodlot systems (Tanzania)
Rebecca Parham (Knight)
- phosphorus cycling on organic farms
Trent Pernitsky (Si)
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Rachel Peters (Siciliano); Toxicology Program
- bioavailability and bioaccessibility of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Courtney Phillips (Peak)
- in situ spectroscopic studies of Cu(II)-organic complexes

Marcus Phillips (Bedard-Haughn), CGSR Dean's Scholarship recipient
- carbon cycling in cryoturbation-affected arctic soils

Robyn Prestley (Knight & Farrell)
- development of cereal crop inoculants for nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixation
Noabur Rahman (Kimaro)
- fertilization to optimize the growth of tree seedlings at a reclaimed oil sands site
Tim Repas (Germida); Biology
- phytoremediation of the Alberta oil sands using an endophytic fungus

Morgan Sather (Farrell & Knight)
- hydrogen utilization and nitrous oxide emissions from pea and lentil

Cassandra Specht (Walley & Knight)
- effect of climate on revegetation in smelter-affected soils

Jocelyn Stefankiw (Schoenau & Farrell)
-novel organic amendments for improved soil quality

Kaitlin Strobbe (Walley)
- soil amendments to support revegetation of smelter-affected landscapes
Clare Sullivan (Knight), A.E. Slinkard Postgraduate Scholarship recipient
- innovative use of pulses in organic systems