Dr. Andrew VanderZaag

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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.

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

Principales publications

  1. 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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  2. VanderZaag, A.C., Baldé, H., Habtewold, J., Le Riche, E.L., Burtt, S., Dunfield, K., Gordon, R.J., Jenson, E., Desjardins, R.L. (2019). Intermittent agitation of liquid manure: effects on methane, microbial activity, and temperature in a farm-scale study. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, [online] 69(9), 1096-1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1629359

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Sokolov, V., VanderZaag, A., Habtewold, J., Dunfield, K., Wagner-Riddle, C., Venkiteswaran, J.J., Gordon, R. (2019). Greenhouse gas mitigation through dairy manure acidification. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 48(5), 1435-1443. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.10.0355

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  6. Taki, R., Wagner-Riddle, C., Parkin, G., Gordon, R., VanderZaag, A. (2019). Comparison of two gap-filling techniques for nitrous oxide fluxes from agricultural soil. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, [online] 99(1), 12-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2018-0041

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  7. He, W., Smith, W.N., Grant, B.B., VanderZaag, A.C., Schwager, E.A., Qi, Z., Reynolds, D., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2019). Understanding the fertilizer management impacts on water and nitrogen dynamics for a corn silage tile-drained system in Canada. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 48(4), 1016-1028. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.11.0414

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  8. Habtewold, J., Gordon, R., Sokolov, V., VanderZaag, A., Wagner-Riddle, C., Dunfield, K. (2018). Reduction in methane emissions from acidified dairy slurry is related to inhibition of methanosarcina species. Frontiers in Microbiology, [online] 9(NOV), http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02806

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  9. Vergé, X., VanderZaag, A.C., Desjardins, R.L., McConkey, B. (2018). Synergistic effects of complementary production systems help reduce livestock environmental burdens. Journal of Cleaner Production, [online] 200 858-865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.016

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  10. Maldaner, L., Wagner-Riddle, C., VanderZaag, A.C., Gordon, R., Duke, C. (2018). Methane emissions from storage of digestate at a dairy manure biogas facility. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, [online] 258 96-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.12.184

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  11. Baldé, H., VanderZaag, A.C., Burtt, S.D., Wagner-Riddle, C., Evans, L., Gordon, R., Desjardins, R.L., MacDonald, J.D. (2018). Ammonia emissions from liquid manure storages are affected by anaerobic digestion and solid-liquid separation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, [online] 258 80-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.036

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  12. Evans, L., VanderZaag, A.C., Sokolov, V., Baldé, H., MacDonald, D., Wagner-Riddle, C., Gordon, R. (2018). Ammonia emissions from the field application of liquid dairy manure after anaerobic digestion or mechanical separation in Ontario, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, [online] 258 89-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.02.017

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  13. Kariyapperuma, K.A., Johannesson, G., Maldaner, L., VanderZaag, A., Gordon, R., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2018). Year-round methane emissions from liquid dairy manure in a cold climate reveal hysteretic pattern. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, [online] 258 56-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.12.185

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  14. Jarecki, M., Grant, B., Smith, W., Deen, B., Drury, C., VanderZaag, A., Qian, B., Yang, J., Wagner-Riddle, C. (2018). Long-term trends in corn yields and soil carbon under diversified crop rotations. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 47(4), 635-643. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2017.08.0317

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  15. Habtewold, J., Gordon, R., Voroney, P., Sokolov, V., VanderZaag, A., Wagner-Riddle, C., Dunfield, K. (2018). Sodium persulfate and potassium permanganate inhibit methanogens and methanogenesis in stored liquid dairy manure. Journal of Environmental Quality, [online] 47(4), 786-794. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.01.0054

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  16. Rennie, T.J., Gordon, R.J., Smith, W.N., VanderZaag, A.C. (2018). Liquid manure storage temperature is affected by storage design and management practices—A modelling assessment. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, [online] 260 47-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.03.013

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  17. VanderZaag, A.C. (2018). On the systematic underestimation of methane conversion factors in IPCC guidance. Waste Management, [online] 75 499-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.01.037

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  18. 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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  19. Habtewold, J., Gordon, R., Sokolov, V., VanderZaag, A., Wagner-Riddle, C., Dunfield, K. (2018). Targeting bacteria and methanogens to understand the role of residual slurry as an inoculant in stored liquid dairy manure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, [online] 84(7), http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02830-17

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  20. Dutta, B., Grant, B.B., Congreves, K.A., Smith, W.N., Wagner-Riddle, C., VanderZaag, A.C., Tenuta, M., Desjardins, R.L. (2018). Characterising effects of management practices, snow cover, and soil texture on soil temperature: Model development in DNDC. Biosystems Engineering, [online] 168 54-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.02.001

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