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Shaun Watmough
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Latest papers
Enhanced rock weathering has greater promise as a sustainable farming practice than a CO2 removal technology.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · senior author
Global Patterns of Metal and Other Element Enrichment in Bog and Fen Peatlands.
Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology · 2024 · senior author
Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a Microbial Perspective
Microbial Ecology · 2023
Latest funding
- $20,130
Enhanced weathering of wollastonite for carbon dioxide removal at Haliburton Forest, Ontario
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $500,000
The mixed blessings of rare earth elements as critical minerals
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $89,170
Carbon-Nitrogen Analyzer
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Enhanced rock weathering has greater promise as a sustainable farming practice than a CO2 removal technology.
Power IM, Spence J, Guo M, Wilson S, Watmough S
Global Patterns of Metal and Other Element Enrichment in Bog and Fen Peatlands.
Osborne C, Gilbert-Parkes S, Spiers G, Lamit LJ, Lilleskov EA, Basiliko N, Watmough S, Global Peatland Microbiome Project
Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a Microbial Perspective
Seward J, Bräuer S, Beckett P, Roy-Léveillée P, Emilson E, Watmough S, Basiliko N
Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale.
Watmough S, Gilbert-Parkes S, Basiliko N, Lamit LJ, Lilleskov EA, Andersen R, Del Aguila-Pasquel J, Artz RE, Benscoter BW, Borken W, Bragazza L, Brandt SM, Bräuer SL, Carson MA, Chen X, Chimner RA, Clarkson BR, Cobb AR, Enriquez AS, Farmer J, Grover SP, Harvey CF, Harris LI, Hazard C, Hoyt AM, Hribljan J, Jauhiainen J, Juutinen S, Kane ES, Knorr KH, Kolka R, Könönen M, Laine AM, Larmola T, Levasseur PA, McCalley CK, McLaughlin J, Moore TR, Mykytczuk N, Normand AE, Rich V, Robinson B, Rupp DL, Rutherford J, Schadt CW, Smith DS, Spiers G, Tedersoo L, Thu PQ, Trettin CC, Tuittila ES, Turetsky M, Urbanová Z, Varner RK, Waldrop MP, Wang M, Wang Z, Warren M, Wiedermann MM, Williams ST, Yavitt JB, Yu ZG, Zahn G
Beyond the usual suspects: methanogenic communities in eastern North American peatlands are also influenced by nickel and copper concentrations.
Bear SE, Seward JD, Lamit LJ, Basiliko N, Moore T, Lilleskov E, Yavitt JB, Schadt CW, Smith DS, Mclaughlin J, Siljanen H, Mykytczuk N, Williams S, Roulet N, Harris L, Carson MA, Watmough S, Bräuer SL
Letter to the editor: Impacts of industrial atmospheric emissions on watershed export of dissolved ions in coastal streams: a Bayesian modeling approach.
Watmough S, Aherne J, Marmorek D
Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S.
Horn KJ, Thomas RQ, Clark CM, Pardo LH, Fenn ME, Lawrence GB, Perakis SS, Smithwick EAH, Baldwin D, Braun S, Nordin A, Perry CH, Phelan JN, Schaberg PG, St Clair SB, Warby R, Watmough S
An assessment of the Ca weathering sources to surface waters on the Precambrian Shield in central Ontario.
Watmough S
Enhanced weathering of wollastonite for carbon dioxide removal at Haliburton Forest, Ontario
Principal investigators: Power, Ian IM
Keywords: biogeochemistry; carbon dioxide removal; climate change mitigation; enhanced rock weathering; environmental geochemistry; forest management; forestry; mineral weathering; silviculture; soil
The mixed blessings of rare earth elements as critical minerals
Principal investigators: Dang, Duc Huy DH
Keywords: benefits; cellular mecanisms; contaminants; fertilizers; Geochemistry; hormetic effects; Rare earth elements; Soil; toxicology; Water
Carbon-Nitrogen Analyzer
Principal investigators: Eimers, Catherine
Can nutrients put the breaks on forest carbon capture?
Principal investigators: Watmough, Shaun
Keywords: forests; carbon; nitrogen; calcium; soil; recovery; isotopes; modelling
X-ray Diffractometer for Analyzing Earth Materials
Principal investigators: Power, Ian
Landscape carbon accumulation through reductions in emissions (L-CARE): developing brownfield management protocols for carbon sequestration and habitat use
Principal investigators: Basiliko, Nathan
Calcium in the envionment: the highs and the lows
Principal investigators: Watmough, Shaun
Causes and implications of changes in phosphorus delivery to Precambrian Shield lakes during the critical spring melt period
Principal investigators: Eimers, Catherine
Nutrient dynamics in sugar maple forests and assessment of long-term sensitivity to nitrogen deposition
Principal investigators: Watmough, Shaun
Nutrient dynamics in sugar maple forests and assessment of long-term sensitivity to nitrogen deposition
Principal investigators: Watmough, Shaun
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
- Eric Emilson and Nathan Basiliko: 7 shared papers
- Nadia Mykytczuk and Nathan Basiliko: 5 shared papers
- Shaun Watmough and Nathan Basiliko: 4 shared papers
- Nadia Mykytczuk and Tim Moore: 2 shared papers
- Nadia Mykytczuk and Shaun Watmough: 2 shared papers
- Nadia Mykytczuk and Nigel Roulet: 2 shared papers
- Tim Moore and Nigel Roulet: 2 shared papers
- Tim Moore and Nathan Basiliko: 2 shared papers
- Nigel Roulet and Nathan Basiliko: 2 shared papers
- Eric Emilson and Shaun Watmough: 1 shared paper
- Tim Moore and Shaun Watmough: 1 shared paper
- Shaun Watmough and Nigel Roulet: 1 shared paper
- Geography
- School of the Environment
- Biology - Biologie
- Goodman School of Mines
- Department of Biology
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