grant.clark [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Grant Clark) (Principal Investigator)

Grant Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University, and leads the Ecological Engineering Research Group. Grant grew up on a mixed farm in Central Alberta, Canada. He received an industry-cooperative BSc in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton (1993) and a PhD in Biosystems Engineering from McGill University, Montreal (2000). He then worked as a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta until returning to McGill in 2007. He is an affiliate member of the Bieler School of Environment and the Trottier Institute for Sustainable Engineering and Design. In 2016-2017 he was an invited professor at the Autonomous University of Chapingo, Mexico. He is a Past President of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering, serves on the editorial board of Canadian Biosystems Engineering, and reviews for numerous other journals. 

McGill Bioresource Engineering department profile

michael.boh [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Michael Boh) (Research Associate)

Michael holds a B.Sc. degree in Geography with a minor in Economics from the University of Buea, Cameroon. In 2008, he obtained an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Science, Food Security and Natural Resource Management from the University of Hohenheim, Germany and a PhD in Agricultural Science in the field of agronomy in 2013 from the same university.  Michael has several years of experience in teaching and collaborative research. He has taught college level courses in biogeography, hydrology, meteorology and climatology. He received the Principal’s Best Teacher Award (BTA) for the 2001/2002 academic year in St. Joseph’s College, Sasse – Cameroon. At the university level, he has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ecology and agroecosystems, organic farming and plant production systems at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. In addition, he provided academic mentorship to graduate and postgraduate students in the Agroecology Lab of the Institute of Plant Production and Agro-ecology in the Tropics and Subtropics in the same university. For more than four years, Michael was graduate students seminar coordinator in the same institute.

roberto.fortetaylor [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Roberto Forte) (PhD Candidate)

Roberto Forte holds a Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) and a Permaculture Teacher Certificate (PTC) from the Permaculture Education Institute in Australia. He is a certified Environmental Professional (EP) by ECO Canada. Roberto holds a Master of Resource & Environmental Management (MREM) from Dalhousie University in Canada, an MBA from the University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from the Technological University of Panama. Roberto worked in the private, public, consulting, and NGO sectors in Panama and Canada including six years as CEO of the Panama Green Building Council. In 2011, he occupied the position of Project Manager at the Summerhill Group Consulting Company in NS, Canada. Roberto's PhD research focuses on developing a framework to help smallholder farmers in Panama’s rural areas transition from conventional agriculture to permaculture.

liam.fitzpatrick2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Liam Fitzpatrick) (MSc Candidate)

Manually-operated static chambers are widely used for measuring greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural soils. This method is laborious and measurements are infrequent. As such, short-term fluxes due to weather changes or soil disturbances associated with field management are not captured. In contrast, automated chambers systems can continually measure greenhouse gas fluxes from soils, but they are costlier to procure and operate. Liam Fitzpatrick’s research is focused on developing a hybrid system to leverage the advantages of both types of chamber and generate a flux estimation factor that could be used to compensate for the low temporal resolution of data collected with manual chambers only.

Elissa.Saliba [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Elissa Saliba) (Msc Candidate)

Elissa Saliba’s research seeks to assess the environmental impacts associated with the processing, handling and land application of three different types of municipal biosolids: anaerobically digested, composted, and lime stabilized biosolids. Her research is a collaboration with the International reference center for the life cycle products, processes and services (CIRAIG), Polytechnique Montreal. The results of her research will support policy decisions with regards to the production and use of biosolids in crop production.

jing.ren [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Jing Ren) (MSc Candidate)

Jing was born and grew up in the venerable city of Zhengzhou in east-central China. She spent the first two years of her undergraduate program in Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (China). Then she moved all the way across the Pacific Ocean and North America to beautiful Truro, Nova Scotia, where she obtained her BSc degree (2017) from Dalhousie University in the major of Integrated Environmental Management (IEM). Jing is currently aspiring to her MSc degree under the supervision of Dr. Grant Clark. She is now working with Dr. Clark’s ecological engineering research group on the Montreal tree pit project. A new expedition has begun!

manoj.guttula [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Manoj Krishna Guttula) (MSc Candidate)

Sahar Fazeli

Shanwei Xu

Tania Lanphere

Jillian Treadwell

Kayode Nwanze

Brendan Peachey

Marie Nouvellon

Eyad Jamaleddine

Michel Duteau

Rubayat Shahid

Edsel Phillip

Samuel Lingwood

Pierre Courvoisier