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Join us for an enlightening webinar as we dive into the tools and strategies for agricultural water management.
Abstract:
This talk will examine some of the benefits, side-effects, and trade-offs of beneficial management practices (BMPs) and natural capital in agricultural landscapes using a One Health framework. That is, considering human, animal, and environmental well-being together whenever possible. The talk will address processes from the microbiome level to the watershed scale with a focus on results from the Environmental Change OneHealth Observatory (ECO2); a long term initiative designed to examine BMPs and natural feature influences on ecosystem services in, primarily, eastern Ontario, Canada. There will also be discussion of how hydrological modeling tools, including HydroGeoSphere, are used to help understand the fate and transport of contaminants in soil, surface water, and ground water environments. As well, how virtual hydrological landscapes can provide cost-effective and holistic insights into the influences of natural capital on water quantity endpoints.
Presenter Bio:
David Lapen has been a research scientist at AAFC-STB for over 25 years. David currently leads research related to the benefits, trade-offs and side-effects of natural capital and beneficial management practices (BMPs) in agricultural ecosystems via the Environmental Change One Health Observatory (ECO2). He has developed and/or enhanced numerical tools to predict the impact of natural capital/BMPs on agriculture, and vice versa, under a range of climate, hydrological, weather, and land use scenarios. He is AAFC’s lead for Canada1Water.