Environmental Monitoring Equipment for Water Quality Monitoring and Agricultural Best Management Practice Research in the Muskrat Lake Watershed

麝鼠湖流域水质监测环境监测设备及农业最佳管理实践研究

• 批准号: 539587-2019
• 负责人: Sylvestre, Julie
• 金额: $ 4.14万
• 依托单位: Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research Tools and Instruments Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=690690
• 关键词: Environmental; Monitoring; Equipment; Water; Quality

The Office of Applied Research at Algonquin College in Pembroke leads water quality monitoring and the implementation of agricultural best management practices in the Muskrat Lake watershed, located in the County of Renfrew, Ontario. The Muskrat Lake watershed is a eutrophic watershed experiencing frequent blue-green algae blooms resulting from nutrient pollution. Past and current projects in the watershed include quantifying the benefits of buffer strips, installing and monitoring controlled tile drainage, testing remediation technologies, measuring crop biomass, conducting soil analysis for nutrient management, and monitoring weather and climate conditions. Implementing a diversity of agricultural best management practices represents a multi-pronged approach to tackling non-point source pollution. Pollution pathways are broad and varied, from groundwater and surface runoff to erosion and cattle entering waterways. Projects that tackle multiple pathways can improve many ecosystem components. Additional field monitoring equipment for these projects will increase capabilities for monitoring soil, water, weather/climate, and crop health, ultimately safeguarding the continuation of projects and supporting the exploration of new projects in the agri-environmental sector. In addition, the equipment will support new viticulture research in the watershed by assisting a start-up company gather environmental data to explore new methods and techniques for growing less tolerant grapevine species in cold climate regions.

彭布罗克阿冈昆学院应用研究办公室领导安大略省伦弗鲁县麝鼠湖流域的水质监测和农业最佳管理实践的实施。麝鼠湖流域是一个富营养化流域，由于营养物污染，经常出现蓝绿藻大量繁殖的情况。该流域过去和当前的项目包括量化缓冲带的效益、安装和监测受控瓷砖排水、测试修复技术、测量作物生物量、进行土壤分析以进行养分管理以及监测天气和气候条件。实施多样化的农业最佳管理实践是解决面源污染的多管齐下的方法。污染途径广泛多样，从地下水和地表径流到侵蚀和牛进入水道。解决多种途径的项目可以改善许多生态系统组成部分。这些项目的额外现场监测设备将提高监测土壤、水、天气/气候和作物健康的能力，最终保障项目的持续进行并支持农业环境领域新项目的探索。此外，该设备还将协助一家初创公司收集环境数据，探索在寒冷气候地区种植耐性较差的葡萄品种的新方法和技术，从而支持该流域的新葡萄栽培研究。