Dr. Budong Qian

Research Scientist

Climate change impacts and adaptation

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6

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

Additional links

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Budong_Qian

Key publications

Budong Qian, Xuebin Zhang, Ward Smith, Brian Grant, Qi Jing, Alex Cannon, Denise Neilsen, Brian McConkey, Guilong Li, Barrie Bonsal, Hui Wan, Li Xue, and Jun Zhao. 2018. Climate impacts on Canadian productions of major crops for global warming levels of 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5°C. The 7th AgMIP Global Workshop, April 24-26, 2018. San Jose, Costa Rica.
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Smith, W., Grant, B., He, W., VanderZaag, A., Qian, B., Desjardins, R., Jerecki, M., Wagner-Riddle, C., Deen, W., and Drury, C. 2018. Poster: Management strategies to reduce adverse impacts of climate change on cropping systems. World Meteorological Organization Technical Conference on Future Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Meteorology, Songdo Convensia, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 14-20 April, 2018
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Zhang, Y., Sherstiukov, A.B., Qian, B., Kokelj, S.V., Lantz, T.C. (2018). Impacts of snow on soil temperature observed across the circumpolar north. Environmental Research Letters, [online] 13(4), http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab1e7
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He, W., Yang, J.Y., Drury, C.F., Smith, W.N., Grant, B.B., He, P., Qian, B., Zhou, W., Hoogenboom, G. (2018). Estimating the impacts of climate change on crop yields and N2O emissions for conventional and no-tillage in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Agricultural Systems, [online] 159 187-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.01.025
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Chen, P., Shang, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Liu, J. (2017). A new regionalization scheme for effective ecological restoration on the loess plateau in China. Remote Sensing, [online] 9(12), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs9121323
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Qi Jing, Malcolm Morrison, Budong Qian. 2017. Attributing soybean yield increases from the 1930s to 1990s in Canada to cultivar improvement and climate change. Poster presentation. SA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings, Tampa, Florida, USA. 2017/10/22 - 2017/10/25.
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Budong Qian, Xuebin Zhang, Qi Jing, Alex Cannon, Denise Neilsen, Guilong Li, Brian McConkey, Barrie Bonsal. 2017. Canola production in Canada facing climate change. Oral Presentation. International Congress of Biometeorology 2017, Durham, UK. September 03-07, 2017.
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Yang, J.Y., Drury, C.F. He, W.T., Smith, W.N., Grant, B.B., He, P., Qian, B., Zhou, W., Hoogenboom, G. 2017. Evaluating the impacts of climate change on crop yields and N2O emissions in Southwestern Ontario using the DNDC model. Poster presentation In: The annual meeting of Canadian Society of Soil Science, Trent University, Peterborough 2017/06/10 - 2017/06/14.
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Budong Qian, Xuebin Zhang , Qi Jing, Alex Cannon, Guilong Li, 2017. Projecting yield change of canola on the Canadian Prairies under climate scenarios of the 1.5ºC climate target. The 51st CMOS Congress, Toronto, Canada. June 04-08, 2017.
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Gregorich, E.G., Janzen, H., Ellert, B.H., Helgason, B.L., Qian, B., Zebarth, B.J., Angers, D.A., Beyaert, R.P., Drury, C.F., Duguid, S.D., May, W.E., McConkey, B.G., Dyck, M.F. (2017). Litter decay controlled by temperature, not soil properties, affecting future soil carbon. Global Change Biology, [online] 23(4), 1725-1734. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13502
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Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Gilles Bélanger, Jiali Shang, Ted Huffman, Jiangui Liu. 2017. Limitations of earlier seeding of canola as an adaptation measure to climate change in Canada. 2nd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference, March 26-28 2017, Stiges, Spain.
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Jing, Q., Shang, J., Huffman, T., Qian, B., Pattey, E., Liu, J., Dong, T., Drury, C.F., Tremblay, N. (2017). Using the CSM-CERES-Maize model to assess the gap between actual and potential yields of grain maize. Journal of Agricultural Science, [online] 155(2), 239-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021859616000290
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Jing, Q., Qian, B., Shang, J., Huffman, T., Liu, J., Pattey, E., Dong, T., Tremblay, N., Drury, C.F., Ma, B.L., Jégo, G., Jiao, X., Kovacs, J., Walters, D., Wang, J. (2017). Assessing the options to improve regional wheat yield in eastern canada using the csm–ceres–wheat model. Agronomy Journal, [online] 109(2), 510-523. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/agronj2016.06.0364
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Dong, T., Liu, J., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Croft, H., Chen, J., Wang, J., Huffman, T., Shang, J., Chen, P. (2017). Deriving Maximum Light Use Efficiency from Crop Growth Model and Satellite Data to Improve Crop Biomass Estimation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, [online] 10(1), 104-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2605303
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Morissette, R., Jégo, G., Bélanger, G., Qian, B., Nyiraneza, J., and Zebarth, B.J. (2016). "Assessment of the effect of climate change on potato growth in eastern Canada with the STICS soil-crop model.", CSBE/SCGAB 2016 Annual Conference, Halifax, Canada, 3-6 July, 2016.
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Liu, j., Shang, J., Qian, B., Huffman, T., Pattey, E., Geng, X., Dong, T. 2016. “Approach to soil productivity assessment over Canada’s agricultural land using Earth observation technology”. The Fifth International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics. July 18-20, 2016. Tianjin, China.
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Liu, J., Huffman, T., Shang, J., Qian, B., Dong, T., Zhang, Y., Jing, Q. 2016. Estimation of crop yield in regions with mixed crops using different cropland masks and time-series MODIS data. IGARSS 2016, July 10-15, Beijing, China. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730868.
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"From fields to regions: Improving crop model predictions, using remote sensing-derived biophysical descriptors and climate data." Pattey, E.,Jégo, G. ,A. Vanderzaag, J. Liu, B. Qian, X. Geng; Res. Team: S. Admiral, M. Mesbah, D. Dow, T. HotteF. Baret, M. Weiss, R. Lacaze, F. Camacho, N. Beaudoin, R. Desjardins, T. Huffman, H. McNairn 2016. 2016 Canadian JECAM Site Update: CFIA-Ottawa. JECAM Science Meeting Kyiv, 11-12 Oct 2016 (poster).
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Budong Qian, Qi Jing, Gilles Belanger, Jiali Shang, Ted Huffman, Jiangui Liiu. 2016. Simulated responses of canola development and growth to climate change in Canada. 7th International Crop Science Congress, Beijing, 2016/08/14 - 2016/08/19
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Budong Qian,2016. Sustainable agricultural production under climate change: challenges and opportunities. The 3rd International Symposium on Environment, Natural Resources and Ecological Conservation: Sustainable High-Output Agricultural Systems – East Asia and North America Experiences. Keynote speaker. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2016/08/09 – 2016/08/15.
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