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Student award winners
George Furey, University of British Columbia - How will N-Mineralization change in cover crop residues by increasing the functional diversity of a planted cover stand to include three crops: Fall Rye, Hairy Vetch and Forage Chicory, measured over a period of four weeks in mesh bags with PRS-probes?
Nicholson Jeke, University of Manitoba - Examining trends in plant available N, P, trace elements and uptake by cattail (Typha latifolia) in a constructed wetland designed for in situ phytoremediation of municipal biosolids.
Insu Jo, Syracuse University - Do invading shrubs change soil mineral cycling regimes, an expected de-stabilizing effect of invaders, in monoculture plots planted with native and invading shrubs?
Dasvinder Kambo, Queen's University - What role does nitrogen mobilization and micronutrient availability play in tree seedling establishment and escapement across a forest-‐tundra ecotone in southwest Yukon?
Joshua Lynn, The University of New Mexico - Do soil nutrients and other abiotic variables limit plant species distributions, or are biotic interactions more important in limiting distributions?
William Shaw, University of Manitoba - What is link between the residual/applied nitrogen and what we measure in the soil and petiole during the growing season along with the plant and tuber nearing senescence and at harvest?
Ben William Thomas, McGill University - 1- Can PRS-probes act as surrogates of soil N supply (SNS) lab-based incubations with a plant in contrasting soil textures with a short-term manure history? 2- Is priming by plant root exudates important in the soils with a manure history that have more labile organic matter that is mineralizable?
Ross K Wagstaff, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana - In urban food production systems will heavy metal deposition lead to increased plant uptake? Can this lead to plant growth effects?
Post-doc award winners
Mohsen Mohseni-Moghadam, The Ohio State University-The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center - How much nutrient does each layer in a long-term no-tillage soil profile, compared to a plowed soil profile, contribute to crop growth?
Luis Valenzuela, Oregon State University - Determining the effects of weed mat on soil nutrient availability in an organic planting of trailing blackberry using PRS probes.
Also congratulations to Mekonnen Giweta, University of Alberta for the best photo of PRS® Probes.
