Sean Smukler, University of British Columbia

Research

greenhouse gas emissions soil carbon sequestration agriculture climate change mitigation climate resilience carbon dynamics landscape analysis digital soil mapping

Latest papers

Native bacterial communities and Listeria monocytogenes survival in soils collected from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
Canadian journal of microbiology · 2018
Protection from wintertime rainfall reduces nutrient losses and greenhouse gas emissions during the decomposition of poultry and horse manure-based amendments.
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995) · 2018 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Quantifying climate change mitigation and resilience of agricultural soils through cost-effective temporal analyses from the field to landscape scales
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$50,000
Development of a sensor network for sustainable agriculture
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$683,000
Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potential of Kelp as an Agricultural Biostimulant
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$20,000

All 16 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Native bacterial communities and Listeria monocytogenes survival in soils collected from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

Falardeau J, Walji K, Haure M, Fong K, Taylor G, Ma Y, Smukler S, Wang S

Canadian journal of microbiology2018

DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2018-0115 PMID: 29775543

02

Protection from wintertime rainfall reduces nutrient losses and greenhouse gas emissions during the decomposition of poultry and horse manure-based amendments.

Maltais-Landry G, Neufeld K, Poon D, Grant N, Nesic Z, Smukler S

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/10962247.2017.1409294 PMID: 29215969

Quantifying climate change mitigation and resilience of agricultural soils through cost-effective temporal analyses from the field to landscape scales

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean

Keywords: soil carbon sequestration; agriculture; climate change mitigation; climate resilience; carbon dynamics; landscape analysis; digital soil mapping; remote sensing; greenhouse gas emissions; carbon fractions

$50,000

Development of a sensor network for sustainable agriculture

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Taghipour, Fariborz F

Keywords: gas sensor; greenhouse gas emission measurement; nitrogen in soil; nutrient monitoring; photocatalyst; precision agriculture; sustainable agriculture; uv-led sensor

$683,000

Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potential of Kelp as an Agricultural Biostimulant

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean SM

Keywords: climate change; crop productivity; greenhouse gas emissions; kelp biomstimulant; microbial community; nitrogen use effeciency

$20,000

Agroecological Transitions for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - International

Principal investigators: Wittman, Hannah

$976,625

PERCS: Perennial Plant Restoration for Carbon Sequestration in Canadian Agricultural Landscapes

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Sargent, Risa RD

Keywords: adoption; carbon sequestration; connectivity; ecosystem services; farmer/producer values; natural climate solutions; remote sensing; socio-economic drivers; spillover effects; woody perennial plantings

$1,408,019

The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Heung, Brandon BL

Keywords: applied behaviour analysis; chemometrics; cost-benefit analysis; data mining; data sharing & privacy; digital soil data management; machine learning; pedometrics; predictive digital soil mapping; soil spectroscopy

$2,000,000

Field deployable instrumentation for spatiotemporal quantification of greenhouse gas emissions

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean

$143,263

Quantifying greenhouse gas emission reduction potential of a novel manure additive

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean SM

$20,000

The 2018 BC agricultural climate adaptation research workshop

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Connect Grants Level 2

Principal investigators: Smukler, Sean

$5,000

Platform for studying the impact of environmental factors and climate change on crops

Co-investigatorNSERC2018Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Castellarin, Simone

$137,116

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Siyun Wang

Land and Food Systems, Faculty of

1 shared papers, latest 2018

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: greenhouse gas emissions Dear Professor Smukler, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Native bacterial communities and Listeria monocytogenes survival in soils collected from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada." (2018), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Quantifying climate change mitigation and resilience of agricultural soils through cost-effective temporal analyses from the field to landscape scales" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]