Reclamation and Restoration of Land and Water
With a rapidly increasing human population and associated increased pressures on global land and water resources, ecosystem degradation is one of the greatest environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Our research focuses on:
- Reclaiming terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems impacted by anthropogenic activities, including agriculture, forestry, urban development and industry
- Natural disturbance such a fire and floods
- Research domains that contribute to enhancing success and informing new approaches in contaminant remediation, reclamation and ecological restoration include soil science, plant science, aquatic science, hydrology, ecology, microbiology and forestry.
An integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to reclamation and restoration ensures establishment of functional and resilient ecosystems in a changing environment
Researchers
- Scott Chang: Forest Soils & Nutrient Dynamics
- Miles Dyck: Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Physics
- Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez: Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes in Agroecosystems
- Justine Karst: Mycorrhizal & Below-ground Ecology
- Simon Landhäusser: Forest Land Reclamation and Restoration
- Derek MacKenzie: Soil-Plant Relations
- M. Anne Naeth: Land Reclamation and Restoration Ecology
- Scott Nielsen: Forest Ecology & Wildlife Management
- David Olefeldt: Catchment and Wetland Sciences
- Rick Pelletier: Spatial information systems, GIS, remote sensing
- Brad Pinno: Silviculture
- Mark Poesch: Stream and Lake Restoration
- Sylvie Quideau: Soil Biogeochemistry
- Bill Shotyk: Geochemistry of the Soil Environment
- Tariq Siddique: Soil Chemistry and Environmental Microbiology
- Janusz Zwiazek: Tree Physiology
