Research

Projects EPAA have been involved in since 2015:

Living Laboratories Initiative

Project Partners include:

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 
  • PEI Potato Producers
  • PEI Potato Board 
  • Kensington North Watersheds Association
  • Souris and Area Branch of PEI Wildlife Federation
  • PEI Dept. Agriculture and Land 
  • PEI Dept. Environment, Energy, and Climate Action
  • Genesis Crop Systems
  • PEI Watershed Alliance 
  • University of New Brunswick
  • Dalhousie University – Faculty of Agriculture 
  • St. Francis Xavier University
  • University of Prince Edward Island 
  • Ducks Unlimited Canada
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada

Planting Willow Riparian Buffers to reduce greenhouse gas emission

Project Partners include:

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 
  • Kensington North Watersheds Association
  • Souris and Area Branch of PEI Wildlife Federation
  • Dalhousie University 
  • Bill Schroeder, GreenTree Agroforestry Solutions
  • Emily K. Murphy, Research Consultant

Purposive Soil Sampling for Watershed

Research led by: Xiaoyuan Geng, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Tillage Trials (Identification and mitigation of yield limitations in processing potato fields)

Research led by: Bonnie Robertson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 

Farmable Gullies (measuring water erosion and tillage erosion)

Research led by: Li Sheng, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Cover Crops and Nurse Crops

Research led by: Josée Owen & Judith Nyiraneza, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Linking Land Use to Water Quality

Research led by: Yefang Jiang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Nitrate Cell Installation and Creating Soil Erosion Control Structures

Research led by: Tyler Wright, PEI Dept. of Agriculture and Land; Scott Anderson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Wire Worm Research (intern student setting traps and recording data for EPAA members)

Research led by: Bob Vernon & Christine Noronha, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada