Contact
Department of Bioresource Engineering
Macdonald Campus, McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec H9X 3V9
Tel.: 514-398-7775
Fax: 514-398-8387
shiv [dot] prasher [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Dr. Prasher)
Profile
Dr. Shiv O. Prasher is Chair and Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering at Macdonald Campus of McGill University. He has been a member of the McGill teaching staff since 1983.
Dr. Prasher teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and carries out research and extension in the area of soil and water engineering. He has published 104 research papers in refereed journals and over 45 papers in refereed conference proceedings. In addition, he has presented over 90 technical full-length papers at various scientific and technical conferences around the world. Dr. Prasher has also been
a member of CSAE/ASAE since 1978.
Dr. Prasher completed his undergraduate studies as well as his Masters degree in Agricultural Engineering at the Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab, India. He received his PhD at the University of British Colombia, British Colombia, Canada, in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Research Interests
Dr. Prasher has established a very strong research program in soil and water engineering over the last ten years. A well-equipped laboratory for analyzing pesticide residues in soil and water samples and a field lysimeter site have both complemented his research efforts and the training of graduate students in the agro-environmental area.
The focus of Dr. Prasher's program is in the area of on-farm pollution control, pesticide fate and transport in agricultural soils and drainage/subirrigation design. One of his recent papers was featured on the cover page of the November-December 1999 issue of Soil Science Society of America Journal, a world-renowned journal in the field of soil hydrology.
In addition, one of Dr. Prasher's research projects was also featured in the December 2000 issue of the Resource magazine of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. These are rare honors for a researcher, and it also signifies the importance of his research efforts in the eyes of his peers throughout North America and the world.
Dr. Prasher was also awarded the prestigious Jim Beamish Award for 1995 by the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) at the AIC/CSAE Annual Meeting in Ottawa in July 1995. This award is given annually to a CSAE member who, in the opinion of the Society, has made outstanding contributions in teaching, research extension, or industry in the area of soil and water engineering.
Patents
A US patent was awarded on February 22, 2000 on the development of an innovative bio-remediation system. A Canadian patent application was also made and its awarding is expected in the next few months. Another patent application on the use of certain kinds of microorganisms for biodegradation of PCBs, nitrate-N residues, bio-fertilizers, and bio-herbicides has been made to the US Patent Office.
Current Projects
- Characterization of Preferential Flow Pathways in Soil.
- Characterization of Plant Root Growth Under Stressful Conditions Using X-Ray CAT Scanning.
- Machine Vision for Weed Detection in Corn Fields.
- Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture.
- Artificial Intelligence (ANN & DT).
- Modeling Pesticide Fate and Transport.
- Analysis of Uncertainty.
- Pollution from Organic Fertilizers (Manure).
- Best Management Practices for Pollution Control.
- Bioremediation of Industrial Contaminants.
- Applications of Data Mining Technology to Remote Sensing Imagery Classification.
Curriculum Vitae
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Activities
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