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Professor Madramootoo visited the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in Wallingford, UK
Professor Madramootoo visited the UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in Wallingford, UK on March 07, to meet with research collaborators on the jointly funded project: A Collaboratively Designed and Managed Flood Resilience Framework for Affected Communities in the Caribbean Region. He also gave a seminar to the scientists titled: “Managing Water in Difficult Climatic Environments”. There was also a wide ranging discussion on expanding research collaboration between McGill and UKCEH in water and the environment in Guyana with the support of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Government of Guyana.
March 7, 2025
Professor Madramootoo delivered a seminar on March 03, 2025 to the scientists at ICRISAT headquarters in Patancheru, India: Will the drylands contract or expand under a changing climate?
March 3, 2025
Congratulations to Professor Chandra Madramootoo who received the Morty Yalovsky Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academic Leadership at the December 04, 2024 McGill Convocation.
December 04, 2024
Congratulations to Calista Brown who obtained her MSc at the Fall Convocation
December 04, 2024
Congratulations to Aidan DeSena who successfully defended his PhD thesis
October 24, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Chandra Madramootoo on receiving the Kishida International Award by ASABE.
The Kishida International Award honours outstanding contributions to engineering-mechanization-technological programs of education, research, development, consultation or technology transfer that has resulted in significant improvements outside the United States. Dr. Madramootoo, a distinguished James Mcgill professor and ASABE Fellow, is the recipient of this award for his significant contributions to soil and water engineering, and water and food security in the Caribbean, Central and South Asia, Middle-East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
July 31, 2024
Congratulations to lab members, Farhan Ahmad and Meaghan Kilmartin who received their MSc degrees, and Emily Lafond who received her B.Eng. at the June 2024 convocation ceremonies.
June 5, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Chandra Madramootoo, Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering who received $1.5 million from the NFRF’s 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation competition.
https://www.mcgill.ca/caribbeanfloodresilienceframework/
June 3, 2024
To read more about this fantastic initiative, click here
To view the video announcing these grants, click here
Congratulations to Shane Sankar and Sunny Han on receiving their MSc degrees in Integrated Water Resources Management.
November 15, 2023
Congratulations to Ekwunife Kosoluchukwu and Guia Marie Mortel on receiving their PhD and MSc degrees, respectively at the June 2023 convocation ceremonies.
August 15, 2023
Congratulations to Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Optical NDVI for soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1" at the NABEC – Northeast Agricultural – Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 30 – August 02, 2023
Congratulations to Farhan Ahmad for presenting "Modelling Soil Water Dynamics of an Intensively Cultivated Histosol" at the NABEC – Northeast Agricultural – Biological Engineering Conference in Guelph, Ontario.
July 30 – August 02, 2023
Congratulations to Calista Brown for presenting “Impacts of Fertilizer Management and Soil Type on Nitrate Contamination of Intensive Subsurface Drained Corn Fields” at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23-26, 2023
Congratulations to Sushree Sangita Dash for presenting “Approaches to Estimate Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations” at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23-26, 2023
Congratulations to Naresh Arumugagounder Thangaraju for presenting "Effect of vegetation indices on soil moisture retrieval using Sentinel-1" at the Lethbridge 2023 CSBE/SCGAB AGM conference in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 23- 26, 2023
Congratulations to Meaghan Kilmartin and Dr. Chandra Madramootoo for presenting "Simulating Irrigation Requirements in Lanoraie, Quebec using AquaCrop: Optimizing Agricultural Needs in an Ecologically-Sensitive Environment" at the CSBE Annual Technical Conference.
July 24-26, 2023
Dr. Chandra Madramootoo gave an invited talk at the CSBE Annual Technical Meeting, entitled "Bioengineered Solutions for Coastal Flood Protection" in Lethbridge, Alberta.
July 24-26, 2023
Dr. Chandra Madramootoo presented a talk entitled "Challenges with drainage modelling in organic soils in temperate regions" at the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
July 8-12, 2023
Thank you to Calista Brown for her work helping to plan OutLoud: The Queer Voices in Research Symposium supporting our EDI initiatives.
May 24, 2023
Chandra Madramootoo, together with former graduate students, Genevieve Grenon and Miranda Xiao, presented a paper titled "Improved Water Management Systems to Reduce Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in Lake Simcoe" At the International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference in Toronto.
May 8-10, 2023
