College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Research Area(s)

  • Applied pedology
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Wetland soils
  • Digital soil mapping
  • Soil information management

Department

Soil Science, College Administration

Research Interests

The foundation of my research program is how land use and climate changes affect – and are affected by – soil properties and processes, with emphasis on carbon and nitrogen dynamics and wetland soils. Through this work, I have found that high-quality, high-resolution soil information is essential to contextualize, scale-up, and model field and laboratory work, so my research team has a strong focus in digital soil mapping (DSM) and soil information management.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
  • M.Sc., University of Saskatchewan
  • B.Sc., University of Saskatchewan

Selected Publications

Chizen, C.J., Helgason, B.L., Weiseth, B., Dhillon, G.S., Baulch, H.M., Schoenau, J.J. and Bedard-Haughn, A.K., 2024. Soil carbon dynamics in drained prairie pothole wetlands. Frontiers in Environmental Science 12: 1353802.

Sorenson, P.T., Kiss, J. and Bedard-Haughn, A., 2024. A Proposed Methodology for Determining the Economically Optimal Number of Sample Points for Carbon Stock Estimation in the Canadian Prairies. Land 13: 114.

Gowera, G.T., Sorenson, P., Bedard-Haughn, A., Rivard, B., Peak, D. and Feng, J., 2024. Evaluating performance of miniaturized spectrometers in predicting soil properties using multivariate statistical analysis. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 104: 216-226

Shahariar, S., Soolanayakanahally, R. and Bedard-Haughn, A., 2024. Short rotation willow to restore degraded marginal land and enhance climate resiliency within the Prairie Pothole Region: A potential nature-based solution. Nature-Based Solutions 5: p.100129

Gobezie, T.B., Scott, S.D., Daggupati, P., Bedard-Haughn, A. and Biswas, A., 2024. Soil data recency: The foundation for harmonizing soil data across time. Journal of Environmental Management 364: 121484.

Sorenson, P.T., Kiss, J., Bedard-Haughn, A.K. and Shirtliffe, S., 2022. Multi-Horizon Predictive Soil Mapping of Historical Soil Properties Using Remote Sensing Imagery. Remote Sensing 14: 5803

Kiss, J., Bedard-Haughn, A. and Sorenson, P., 2022. Predictive mapping of wetland soil types in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region using high-resolution digital elevation model terrain derivatives. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 103: 21-46.

Sorenson, P.T., Kiss, J. and Bedard-Haughn, A.K., 2022. Improved parent material map disaggregation methods in the Saskatchewan prairies using historical bare soil composite imagery. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 103: 47-63

Baulch, H., Whitfield, C., Wolfe, J., Basu, N., Bedard-Haughn, A., Belcher, K., Clark, R., Ferguson, G., Hayashi, M., Ireson, A. and Lloyd-Smith, P., 2021. Synthesis of science: findings on Canadian Prairie wetland drainage. Canadian Water Resources Journal/Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques 46: 229-241.

Shahariar, S., Farrell, R., Soolanayakanahally, R. and Bedard-Haughn, A., 2021. Elevated salinity and water table drawdown significantly affect greenhouse gas emissions in soils from contrasting land-use practices in the prairie pothole region. Biogeochemistry 155: 127-146.

Courses

  • EVSC 380.3 – Grassland Soils and Vegetation
  • SLSC 825.3 – Field Studies and Research Design of Saskatchewan Soil Landscapes