Dr. Budong Qian

Research Scientist

Climate change impacts and adaptation

Current research and/or projects

Sustainable crop production in Canada under climate change

 

Research and/or project statements

The project addresses many research gaps in sustainable crop production in Canada facing a changing climate.

Professional activities / interests

  • Climate variability and climate change
  • Applied climatology in agriculture
  • Stochastic weather generation for agricultural modelling
  • Climate downscaling and scenarios for agricultural applications
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in the agricultural sector
  • Crop modelling for climate change impacts on crop growth and production
  • Statistical analysis 

Education and awards

Ph.D. Physics, University of Lisbon, 2000

M.Sc. Climatology, Hohai University, 1990

B.Sc. Climatology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 1982

Key publications

  1. Jégo, G., Delmotte, S., Crépeau, M., Larbi-Youcef, Y., Chantigny, M., Qian, B. Simulation par une approche participative de l’effet de systèmes agroécologiques sur l’évolution de la matière organique des sols. XIII STICS Seminar STICS, 13-16 November 2023, Bordeaux, France.

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  2. Binggeli S., Jégo, G., Ouellet, V., VanderZaag, A., Thivierge, M.-N., Wright, T., Qian, B., Charbonneau, É. 2023. Consommation d’eau par les fermes laitières: bilans actuels et projections futures. 47e Symposium sur les bovins laitiers, Drummondville, QC, 8 novembre 2023. Affiche scientifique.

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  3. Smith, W., Grant, B., Jing, Q., Qian, B., Jégo, G., Crépeau, M. 2023. Impacts of climate change on soybean yields and potential expansion in Canada. Modeling the Future of Food, 9th Global Workshop of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project, June 26th-30th, 2023 Columbia University, New York, NY

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  4. Mariely Lopes dos Santos, Kritika Kothari, Rafael Battisti , Kenneth J. Boote , Sotirios V. Archontoulis , Adriana Confalone , Julie Constantin , Santiago V. Cuadra , Philippe Debaeke , Babacar Faye , Brian Grant , Gerrit Hoogenboom , Qi Jing , Michael van der Laan , Hanna Poffenbarger , Fernando Antônio Macena da Silva , Alireza Nehbandani , Claas Nendel , Larry C. Purcell , Budong Qian , Alex C. Ruane , Céline Schoving , Ward Smith , Afshin Soltani , Amit Srivastava , Montserrat Salmeron (2023) Variability of soybean models for simulation of crop nitrogen dynamics under changing CO 2 , temperature, water, and nitrogen fertilization. 9th Global Workshop of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project New York 2023/06/26 - 2023/06/30.

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  5. VanderZaag, A., Le Riche, E., Balde, H., Kalil, S., Ouellet, V., Charbonneau, E., Coates, T., Wright, T., Luimes, P., Gordon, R., Smith, W., Qian, B. In-barn and outdoor THI conditions in Canadian dairy barns in current and future climates. ADSA Annual Meeting Ottawa, June 25, 2023. (Presentation)

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  6. Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Guillaume Jégo, Gilles Bélanger, Ward Smith, Andy VanderZaag, Jiali Shang, Jiangui Liu, Brian Grant, Marianne Crépeau.2023. Warmer future climate in Canada – implications for plant hardiness and winter survival of perennial forage crops. Canadian Geophysical Union 2023 Annual Meeting, May 07-10, 2023, Banff, Alberta, Canada

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  7. VanderZaag, A., Qian, B., Smith, w., Balde, H., Gordon, R. Indicators of Potential Heat Stress in Livestock Barns in Current and Future Climates. Dairy Climate Banff, May 2023. (Poster)

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  8. Ward Smith, Budong Qian, Brian Grant, Qi Jing, Guillaume Jego, Marianne Crepeau (2022) How may a changing climate impact cropping systems in Canada? Invited Speaker, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - Ottawa Executive Seminar, (Virtual) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. October 20, 2022

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  9. Ward Smith, Budong Qian, Brian Grant, Qi Jing, Guillaume Jego, Marianne Crepeau (2022) Cropping system resiliency under a changing climate in Canada. Invited Speaker, STB National Seminar Series, (Virtual) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. September 21, 2022

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  10. Budong Qian, Ward Smith, Yong Min Kim, Qi Jing, Brian Grant, Guillaume Jego, Scott Duguid, Ken Hester, Alison Nelson (2022) What will projected near-term climate mean for soybeans in Canada? Invited Keynote Speaker, Northern Soybean Summit, (Virtual) Toronto, Ontario, Canada. January 25, 2022..

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  11. Jiang, R., He, W., He, L., Yang, J.Y., Qian, B., Zhou, W., He, P. (2021). Modelling adaptation strategies to reduce adverse impacts of climate change on maize cropping system in Northeast China. Scientific Reports, [online] 11(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79988-3

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  12. Ward Smith, Brian Grant, Ray Desjardins, Andrew VanderZaag, Craig Drury, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Elizabeth Pattey, Budong Qian, Mervin St. Luce, Brian McConkey, Wentian He, Rong Jiang. 2021. Canada DNDC, a full farm agroecosystem model for identifying sustainable and resilient agricultural management. Workshop on Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Modeling in Agriculture. AAFC, Agricultural Climate Solutions. Nov. 3-4, 2021.

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  13. Qian, B. (2021). Dealing with uncertainty in modelling climate change impacts. Oral presentation (Invited). Workshop on Soil C and Emissions Mitigation Modeling in Agriculture. Virtual, November 3-4, 2021, The Canadian Agroecosystem Living Laboratories.

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  14. Jing, Q., McConkey, B., Qian, B., Smith, W., Grant, B., Shang, J., Liu, J., Bindraban, P., Luce, M.S. (2021). Assessing water management effects on spring wheat yield in the Canadian Prairies using DSSAT wheat models. Agricultural Water Management, [online] 244 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106591

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  15. Zhang, Y., Qian, B., Hong, G. (2020). A long-term, 1-km resolution daily meteorological dataset for modeling and mapping permafrost in canada. Atmosphere, [online] 11(12), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121363

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  16. Smith, W., Grant, B., Qi, Z., He, W., Qian, B., Jing, Q., VanderZaag, A., Drury, C.F., St. Luce, M., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2020). Towards an improved methodology for modelling climate change impacts on cropping systems in cool climates. Science of the Total Environment, [online] 728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138845

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  17. Qian, B., Jing, Q., Smith, W., Grant, B., Cannon, A.J., Zhang, X. (2020). Quantifying the uncertainty introduced by internal climate variability in projections of Canadian crop production. Environmental Research Letters, [online] 15(7), http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab88fc

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  18. Smith, W., B. Grant, Z. Qi, W. He, B. Qian, Q. Jing, A. VanderZaag, C.F. Drury, M. St Luce, and Claudia Wagner-Riddlee. Towards an improved methodology for modelling climate change impacts on cropping systems. The 54th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), Virtual session, May 27, 2020.

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  19. Shang, J., Liu, J., Poncos, V., Geng, X., Qian, B., Chen, Q., Dong, T., Macdonald, D., Martin, T., Kovacs, J., Walters, D. (2020). Detection of crop seeding and harvest through analysis of time-series Sentinel-1 interferometric SAR data. Remote Sensing, [online] 12(10), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12101551

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  20. Di Ma, Qi Jing, Yue-Ping Xu, Alex J Cannon, Taifeng Dong, Mikhail A Semenov, Budong Qian (2020) The potential of using ensemble-mean climate scenarios for crop yield projection. Abstract, The 54th CMOS Congress, May 24-28, 2020, Ottawa.

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Research facility

960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Canada

Affiliations

  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality (2015 – 2020)
  • American Meteorological Society
  • American Geophysical Union 

Language

English