Dr. Andrew VanderZaag

Chercheur

Scientifique à la Ferme expérimentale centrale, à Ottawa (Ontario). Je dirige et collabore à des projets de recherche portant sur :

les émissions de méthane et le biogaz;
les émissions d’oxyde de diazote;
l’efficacité de l’utilisation de l’eau;
le traitement décentralisé des eaux usées;
l’agrométéorologie;
la durabilité de l’agriculture.

Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada

Ottawa (Ontario)

Recherche et / ou projets en cours

Comprendre les émissions de méthane découlant de l’entreposage du fumier liquide au Canada (fonds internes d’AAC).
Efficacité de l’utilisation de l’eau par les exploitations laitières (AAC et Fédération canadienne des producteurs de lait).
Aspects environnementaux du biogaz (AAC et fonds sectoriels).
Efficience environnementale des systèmes de cultures pour la production laitière (collaborateur).
Émissions d’ammoniac découlant de la gestion du fumier (collaborateur).
Flux de carbone et d’eau des systèmes de cultures (collaborateur).
Émissions d’oxyde de diazote durant le dégel printanier.

Prix et études

Doctorat, génie biologique (Dalhousie, 2009)
Baccalauréat ès sciences, Sciences environnementales (Guelph, 2003)

Expérience et / ou de travail international

Émissions de gaz à effet de serre au Cameroun

Liens additionnels

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=g91Ds5YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Principales publications

VanderZaag, A., Balde, H., Desjardins, R., Wagner-Riddle, C., Gordon, R., MacDonald, D., Crolla, A. Emission from Biogas and Digestate in Canada. Federal Provincial Territorial Biogas Collective Webinar, November 10, 2021. (Presentation)
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VanderZaag, A. Manure storage emission measurement techniques. Living Labs Workshop, November 4, 2021. (Presentation)
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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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VanderZaag, A., Rajagopal, R. Desjardins, R., Coates, T., Hao, X., Bittman, S. 2021. Reducing Emissions from Manure Management. Report to AAFC’s Climate Change Roadmap project. 32 pp
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VanderZaag, A. Combining biogas with nutrient recovery for enhanced environmental benefits. BioProducts AgSci Webinar, February 24, 2021. Online (Presentation)
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VanderZaag, A. Combining biogas with nutrient recovery for enhanced environmental benefits. Value of Biogas Conference, January 20, 2021 Online (Invited Presentation)
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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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VanderZaag, A. Digestate Research at Seabreeze. FPT Industry Biogas Collective. June 22, 2020. (Presentation)
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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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He, W., Dutta, B., Grant, B.B., Chantigny, M.H., Hunt, D., Bittman, S., Tenuta, M., Worth, D., VanderZaag, A., Desjardins, R.L., Smith, W.N. (2020). Assessing the effects of manure application rate and timing on nitrous oxide emissions from managed grasslands under contrasting climate in Canada. Science of the Total Environment, [online] 716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135374
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Smith, W., Grant, B., Qi, Z., He, W., VanderZaag, A., Drury, C.F., Helmers, M. (2020). Development of the DNDC model to improve soil hydrology and incorporate mechanistic tile drainage: A comparative analysis with RZWQM2. Environmental Modelling and Software, [online] 123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104577
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Libby, M.D., Vander Zaag, A.C., Gregorich, E.G., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2020). An improved laboratory method shows that freezing intensity increases n2o emissions. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, [online] 100(2), 136-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2019-0073
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He, W., Grant, B.B., Smith, W.N., VanderZaag, A.C., Piquette, S., Qian, B., Jing, Q., Rennie, T.J., Bélanger, G., Jégo, G., Deen, B. (2019). Assessing alfalfa production under historical and future climate in eastern Canada: DNDC model development and application. Environmental Modelling and Software, [online] 122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104540
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Jayasundara, S., Worden, D., Weersink, A., Wright, T., VanderZaag, A., Gordon, R., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2019). Improving farm profitability also reduces the carbon footprint of milk production in intensive dairy production systems. Journal of Cleaner Production, [online] 229 1018-1028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.013
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Smith, W., Z. Qi, B. Grant, W. He, A. VanderZaag, C. Drury, C. Tan, M. and Helmers. Towards improving the DNDC model for simulating soil hydrology and tile drainage. 2019 ASABE Annual International Meet, Boston, Massachusetts, July 7–10, 2019. DOI:https://doi.org/10.13031/aim.20
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Baldé, H., Zaag, A.V., Smith, W., Desjardins, R.L. (2019). Ammonia Emissions Measured Using Two Different GasFinder Open-Path Lasers. Atmosphere, [online] 10(5), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos10050261
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Smith, W., B. Grant, W. He, Z. Qi, A. VanderZaag, Kamaljit Banger, Craig Drury, and Claudia Wagner-Riddle. Modelling approach for identifying management practices that reduce GHG emissions from cropping systems in Canada. Proceedings of the workshop on “Climate change, reactive nitrogen, food security and sustainable agriculture”, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 15-16 April, 2019. https://mopga.imk-ifu.kit.edu/workshop-presentations
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Ngwabie, N.M., Wirlen, Y.L., Yinda, G.S., VanderZaag, A.C. (2019). Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from municipal solid waste dumpsites in Cameroon. Waste Management, [online] 87 947-953. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.048
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Smith, W., Grant, B., Qi, Z., He, W., VanderZaag, A., Drury, C.F., Vergè, X., Balde, H., Gordon, R., Helmers, M.J. (2019). Assessing the impacts of climate variability on fertilizer management decisions for reducing nitrogen losses from corn silage production. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 48(4), 1006-1015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.12.0433
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Smith, W., Qi, Z., Grant, B., VanderZaag, A., Desjardins, R. (2019). Comparing hydrological frameworks for simulating crop biomass, water and nitrogen dynamics in a tile drained soybean-corn system: Cascade vs computational approach. Journal of Hydrology X, [online] 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2018.100015
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