Faculty profile
Merrin Macrae
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Research
Latest papers
Multiyear changes in snowmelt phosphorus runoff with soil P drawdown or application of struvite to an organic forage crop.
Journal of environmental quality · 2025
Evaluating the potential for snowmelt phosphorus losses from perennial forage crops.
Journal of environmental quality · 2025
One size does not fit all: Toward regional conservation practice guidance to reduce phosphorus loss risk in the Lake Erie watershed.
Journal of environmental quality · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $153,000
Phosphorus mobilization in artificially drained agricultural landscapes
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $688,685
Food-Water Nexus Education & Training
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $790,943
Optimizing Phosphorus 4R Nutrient Stewardship for water quality protection in Canadian Cropping Systems
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Multiyear changes in snowmelt phosphorus runoff with soil P drawdown or application of struvite to an organic forage crop.
Wilson H, Vivekananthan K, Macrae M, Elliott J, Schneider K, Thiessen Martens J, Glenn A
Evaluating the potential for snowmelt phosphorus losses from perennial forage crops.
Wilson H, Elliott J, Macrae M, Kokulan V, Glenn A
One size does not fit all: Toward regional conservation practice guidance to reduce phosphorus loss risk in the Lake Erie watershed.
Macrae M, Jarvie H, Brouwer R, Gunn G, Reid K, Joosse P, King K, Kleinman P, Smith D, Williams M, Zwonitzer M
Hydroclimatic influences and physiographic controls on phosphorus dynamics in prairie pothole wetlands.
Haque A, Ali G, Macrae M, Badiou P, Lobb D
Phosphorus mobilization in artificially drained agricultural landscapes
Principal investigators: Macrae, Merrin
Keywords: agriculture; water quality; tile drainage; solute transport; vadose zone; variable source area hydrology; phosphorus; sediment transport
Food-Water Nexus Education & Training
Principal investigators: Helgason, Warren WD
Keywords: decisions and food-water policy; fate; food security; nutrient stewardship; plant-root-soil interaction; precision farming practices and crop; remote sensing and soil mapping; water security; water stewardship
Optimizing Phosphorus 4R Nutrient Stewardship for water quality protection in Canadian Cropping Systems
Principal investigators: Macrae, Merrin ML
Keywords: cold regions; conservation practices; crop yield; eutrophication risk; nutrient management; stewardship; tile drainage; water use efficiency
Reactive interfaces in agroecosystems: quantifying coupled biogeochemical dynamics across scales using a comprehensive lab-field-modeling approach
Principal investigators: VanCappellen, Philippe
Runoff generation and phosphorus mobilization in agricultural landscapes
Principal investigators: Macrae, Merrin
The analyses of soil and water for determinations of nitrogen fate and transfer in agricultural riparian zones
Principal investigators: Macrae, Merrin
Effect of antecedent hydrologic conditions and agricultural activity on riparian zone biogeochemistry
Principal investigators: Macrae, Merrin
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
- Merrin Macrae and David Lobb: 1 shared paper
- Merrin Macrae and Grant Gunn: 1 shared paper
- Merrin Macrae and Helen Jarvie: 1 shared paper
- Merrin Macrae and Joanne Thiessen Martens: 1 shared paper
- Merrin Macrae and Roy Brouwer: 1 shared paper
- Grant Gunn and Helen Jarvie: 1 shared paper
- Grant Gunn and Roy Brouwer: 1 shared paper
- Helen Jarvie and Roy Brouwer: 1 shared paper
- Geography and Environmental Management
- Soil Science
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Grant Gunn
Geography and Environmental Management
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Helen Jarvie
Geography and Environmental Management
1 shared papers, latest 2021
David Lobb
Soil Science
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Roy Brouwer
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Joanne Thiessen Martens
Soil Science
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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