Water Quality & Quantity Projects

Advancing the science of Knowledge Translation and Transfer using a community-engagement approach: Co-developing private water well best management practice awareness and education materials

Lead Applicant: Sheri Longboat

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Knowledge Translation and Transfer – Research

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: NA

Evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of harvestable biomass crops as regenerative buffer strips and silt sock packing for nutrient runoff control

Lead Applicant: Emily Yi Wai Chiang

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity 

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: NA

Watershed-level evaluation of the efficacy of riparian buffers on reducing nutrient and pesticide loading to protect water quality and biodiversity in streams

Lead Applicant: Ryan Prosser

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: NA

Quantifying ephemeral gully erosion in Lake Erie basin using field experimentation and modeling

Lead Applicant: Prasad Daggupati

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: NA

Bio-based sorbents for the removal of zinc from agricultural water collection ponds

Lead Applicant: Erica Pensini

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Developing inexpensive bio-based materials to remove zinc from Ontario water collection ponds to reach concentrations below regulatory limits.

 

Dominant soil water flow processes and associated agricultural nutrient leaching under different management practices in southern Ontario

Lead Applicant: Genevieve Ali

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Elora

Research Summary: Further understanding how tillage, soil compaction, manure and cover crops affect nitrogen and phosphorus leaching into Ontario soils.

 

Development of risk indicators for crop fields prone to extreme weather, flooding and hydrologic connectivity in the Lake Erie Basin

Lead Applicant: Genevieve Ali

Research Priority: Water Quality & Quantity

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: N/A

Research Summary: Investigating potential relationships between indicators of extreme weather and water-related processes under past and future climate change scenarios.