Vegetation
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APSIM: Comparing Traditional Fallow vs Conservation Tillage Strategies
One popular conservation tillage strategy is to leave ample crop residue on fallow land over a growing season, as opposed to fallowing the traditional way (leaving the crop empty to…
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Digital Crop Modelling: APSIM
I have been exploring software that integrates soil science and agrology into the digital world. I recently started learning a program called APSIM. We can use these types of programs…
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Soil Survey and Wildlife Sweeps: Where do they intersect?
I had an interesting opportunity in my winter wildlife sweeps to go over sites that I had previously done summer soil surveys on, now with the help and guidance of…
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Erosion Control Seeding Project
Back to work
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My travel experience in Taiwan
I’ve put together a small video to commemorate my time spent in Taiwan. What started as a blind vacation, originally planned for less than one week, turned into perhaps one…
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Seed collection
When reclaiming land, it’s important to collect samples of native species from the area so that future replanting and rec efforts can closely match the state of the ecosystem before…
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Why are Japan’s farms emptying?
After my trip to Japan
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Land Reclamation Tree Planting Project
This was a land reclamation project at a mine site in Alberta. My role lasted 18 days straight, and I helped a team of tree planters plant about 300,000 trees…
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Invasive Vegetation Management Project
I recently completed a vegetation management project, which had me identifying noxious weeds, using GIS softwares like ArcGIS and Fieldmaps to track growth and spread of species, manual and mechanical…
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Kobayashi Nouen in Japan
I recently visited Japan for a week. It was a great time, and I decided I wanted to get a feel for agricultural practices in the country, so I volunteered…
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Visualization of Green Spaces distribution in Toronto
An ArcGIS project
Jaron Rosso Wiigs 