ASABE 2025 Annual International Meeting - Lab Highlights
Our lab was well represented at the ASABE 2025 Annual International Meeting in Toronto, July 14-16. It was an excellent opportunity to share our work with the broader agricultural and biological engineering community, receive valuable feedback, and engage in meaningful professional exchanges.
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Presenters from our group included:
- Dr. Chandra A. Madramootoo - Presented on Building successful capstone design projects in the 涩里番 university bioresource engineering program
- Sushree Sangita Dash - Presented on A Dual-Platform Approach to Methane Emission Monitoring in Feedlots Using Open-Path Lasers and UAVs
(Received First Place in the Graduate Student Award, presented by the AABFEIO Committee) - Daniel Dikio - Presented on Evaluating the Impact of Soil Compaction on Subsurface Tile Drain Efficiency in Intensively Cropped Fields
- Harmanpreet Singh Grewal - Presented on Using Machine learning models to predict phosphorous loads in drainage discharge
- Calista Brown received the Graduate Thesis Award (MSc.) 2025 from CSBE.
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July 14-16, 2025
Dr. Aidan DeSena was awarded his PhD at the Macdonald convocation in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
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June 4, 2025
Congratulations to听Naresh Thangaraju who successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: Regional Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration Estimates for Irrigation Optimization.
June 3, 2025
Professor Madramootoo visited the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in Wallingford, UK
Professor Madramootoo visited the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in Wallingford, UK on March 07, to meet with research collaborators on the jointly funded project: A Collaboratively Designed and Managed Flood Resilience Framework for Affected Communities in the Caribbean Region. He also gave a seminar to the scientists titled: 鈥淢anaging Water in Difficult Climatic Environments鈥�. There was also a wide ranging discussion on expanding research collaboration between 涩里番 and UKCEH in water and the environment in Guyana with the support of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Government of Guyana.
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March 7, 2025
Professor Madramootoo delivered a seminar on March 03, 2025 to the scientists at ICRISAT headquarters in Patancheru, India: Will the drylands contract or expand under a changing climate?
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March 3, 2025
Congratulations to Professor Chandra Madramootoo who received the Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academic Leadership at the December 04, 2024 涩里番 Convocation.
Read more about the听Lifetime Achievement Award in the 涩里番 Reporter
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December 04, 2024
Congratulations to Calista Brown who obtained her MSc at the Fall Convocation.
Congratulations to Aidan DeSena who successfully defended his PhD thesis.
October 24, 2024
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 3-5, 2024
2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation competition
Congratulations to Professor Chandra Madramootoo, Distinguished James 涩里番 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.
November 15, 2023
Congratulations to Shane Sankar and Sunny Han on receiving their MSc degrees in Integrated Water Resources Management.
August 15,听2023
Congratulations to Ekwunife Kosoluchukwu and Guia Marie Mortel on receiving their PhD and MSc degrees, respectively at the June 2023 convocation ceremonies.
July 30 鈥� August 02, 2023
Congratulations to Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Optical NDVI for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1" at the NABEC 鈥� Northeast Agricultural 鈥� Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 30 鈥� August 02, 2023
Congratulations to Farhan Ahmad for presenting "Modelling Soil Water Dynamics of an Intensively Cultivated Histosol" at the NABEC 鈥� Northeast Agricultural 鈥� Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 23-26, 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 Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Effect of vegetation indices on soil moisture retrieval using Sentinel-1" at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 24-26, 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 8-12, 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.
May 24, 2023
Thank you to Calista Brown for her work helping to plan OutLoud: The Queer Voices in Research Symposium supporting our EDI initiatives.
May 8-10, 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.
