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Scott Smith

PhD, soil scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Organisation:

Education:

• B.Sc. (Ag) McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1974
• M.Sc. ( Soil Science) Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1979
  

Science interests & Projects:

Selected Activities:

Experience:

• Soil Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Whitehorse, YK 1983 - 1998

  Directed and carried out research into the following areas:

  · Pleistocene paleoenviromental reconstruction
  · Thermal regimes of permafrost affected soils
  · Soil survey, agriculture capability and ecological mapping
  · Development of national agri-environmental indicators

• Soil Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, B.C. 1998 to present

  · Assessment of crop water requirements in the Okanagan Valley in response to climate change
  · GIS modeling of land use, climate and landscape processes
  · Development of spatial databases in support of entomological research
  · National Study Leader, Land Resource Inventory
  

Selected publications:

Recent Journal Publications

• Smith, C.A.S., P.L. Ping, C.A.Fox and E. Kodama 2000. Weathering characteristics of three pedons formed in Holocene White River tephra, Yukon Territory, Canada. Earth Cryosphere 4: 74-82 [in Russian]
• Preston, C. M., J. A. Trofymow and the Canadian Intersite Decomnpositon Experiment Working Group 2000. Variability in litter quality and its relationship to litter decay in Canadian forests. Canadian Jounrnal of Botany 78: 1269-1287
• Kennedy, C.E., Smith, C.A.S. and Cooley, D.A. 2001. Observations of change in the cover of Polargrass, Arctagrostis latifolia, and Arctic Lupine, Lupinus arcticus, in upland tundra on Herschel Island, Yukn Territory. Canadian Field-Naturalist 115(2): 323-328
• Trofymow, J.A., T.R. Moore, B. Titus, C. Prescott, I. Morrison, M. Siltanen, S.Smith and S. Visser. 2002. Rates of litter decomposition over 6 years in Canadian forests: influence of litter quality and climate. Canadian Journal Forest Research 32:789-804
• Kokelj, S.V., S.A.S. Smith and C.R. Burn 2002. Physical and chemical characteristics of the active layer and permafrost, Herschel Island, Western Arctic Coast, Canada. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 13: 171-185
  

Some Recent Miscellaneous Publicaitons

• Smith, C.A.S., C. Kennedy and D. Cooley 2000. Climate change research on the north slope. Pages 67-68 in 2000 Yukon North Slope Conference Summary Report. Yukon Dept of Renewable Resources, Whitehorse, YT. 171pp.
• McRae, T, C.A.S. Smith and L.J. Gregorich (eds) 2000. Environmental Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture: Report of the Agri-Envirionmental Indicator Project. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa 224 pp.
• Smith C.A.S. and C.E. Kennedy 2001. Observations of change in cryoturbation and plant cover in upland tundra, Western Canadian Arctic: Climate change or natural variation? In Dynamics and Challenges of Cryosols, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cryopedology, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Smith, C.A.S., McRae, T. and McConkey, B.G. 2001. Information needs to support development of agri-environmental indicators: The Canadian experience. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricultureal Science and Technology, Nov 7-9, Beijing China. Vol 6: 18-24.
• Neilsen, D., S. Smith, W. Koch, G. Frank, J. Hall and P. Parchomchuk. 2001. Impact of climate change on crop water demand and crop suitability in the Okanagan Valley, B.C. Technical Bulletin 01-15. Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Summerland, B.C. 32p.
• Smith, C.A.S. 2002. Report and recommendations of the expert meeting on soil organic carbon indicators. Joint Working Party of Agricuture and the Environment. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Publication COM/AGR/CA/ ENV/ EPOC(2002)103. Paris. 34p.
  

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