Meet Prof. Ivan O'Halloran Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Ivan O'Halloran describes his current research on nutrient cycling in agricultural ecosystems.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College
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Text: Prof. Ivan O'Halloran
School of Environmental Sciences
Ridgetown Campus
Ivan: My research deals with the cycling of nutrients
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in agricultural ecosystems.
And that involves both looking at nutrient use efficiency by the crops we produce, the retention
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of nutrients in the soils that it's applied to, and then the potential losses of those nutrients to other parts of the environment.
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Ivan: Currently some of the research projects that we're involved in that I'm quite excited about, is looking at the movement of phosphorus in tile lines to surface water. 
In Ontario we require tile drainage as an important part of production, but it also serves as a pathway for nutrient loss to surface water bodies. 
And so we're looking at methods to either improve the nutrient use or retention on the farm field, as well as how we might mitigate
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those losses of phosphorus into tile lines.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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