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Congratulations to Dr. Chandra Madramootoo on receiving the Kishida International Award by ASABE.
The Kishida International Award honours outstanding contributions to engineering-mechanization-technological programs of education, research, development, consultation or technology transfer that has resulted in significant improvements outside the United States. Dr. Madramootoo, a distinguished James Mcgill professor and ASABE Fellow, is the recipient of this award for his significant contributions to soil and water engineering, and water and food security in the Caribbean, Central and South Asia, Middle-East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
July 31, 2024
Congratulations听to lab members, Farhan Ahmad and Meaghan Kilmartin who received their MSc degrees, and Emily Lafond who received her B.Eng. at the June 2024 convocation ceremonies.
June 5, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Chandra Madramootoo, Distinguished James 苹果淫院 Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering who received $1.5 million from the NFRF鈥檚 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation competition.
June 3, 2024
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Congratulations to Shane Sankar and Sunny Han on receiving their MSc degrees in Integrated Water Resources Management.
November 15, 2023
Congratulations听to Ekwunife Kosoluchukwu and Guia Marie Mortel听on receiving their PhD and MSc degrees, respectively at the June 2023 convocation ceremonies.
August 15,听2023
Congratulations to Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Optical NDVI for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1" at the听NABEC 鈥� Northeast Agricultural 鈥� Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 30 鈥� August 02, 2023
Congratulations to听Farhan Ahmad for presenting "Modelling Soil Water Dynamics of an Intensively Cultivated Histosol" at the听NABEC 鈥� Northeast Agricultural 鈥� Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 30 鈥� August 02, 2023
Congratulations to Calista Brown for presenting 鈥淚mpacts of Fertilizer Management and Soil Type on Nitrate Contamination of Intensive Subsurface Drained Corn Fields鈥� at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23-26, 2023
Congratulations to Sushree Sangita Dash for presenting 鈥淎pproaches to Estimate Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations鈥� at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23-26, 2023
Congratulations to听Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Effect of vegetation indices on soil moisture retrieval using Sentinel-1"听at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23- 26, 2023
Congratulations to Meaghan Kilmartin and Dr. Chandra Madramootoo for presenting "Simulating Irrigation Requirements in Lanoraie, Quebec using AquaCrop: Optimizing Agricultural Needs in an Ecologically-Sensitive Environment" at the CSBE Annual Technical Conference.
July 24-26, 2023
Dr. Chandra Madramootoo gave an invited talk at the CSBE Annual Technical Meeting, entitled "Bioengineered Solutions for Coastal Flood Protection" in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 24-26, 2023
Dr. Chandra Madramootoo presented a talk entitled "Challenges with drainage modelling in organic soils in temperate regions" at the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
July 8-12, 2023
Thank you to Calista Brown for her work helping to plan OutLoud: The Queer Voices in Research Symposium supporting our EDI initiatives.
May 24, 2023
Chandra Madramootoo, together with former graduate students, Genevieve Grenon and Miranda Xiao, presented a paper titled "Improved Water Management Systems to Reduce Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in Lake Simcoe" At the International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference in Toronto.
May 8-10, 2023
