Meet Prof. Jon Warland Descriptive Transcript

Summary: A brief description by Prof. Jon Warland, University of Guelph, of his research into plant exchange funtions and particularly his research working with the Toronto Blue Jays. 

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Text: :60 Second Snapshots
Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Text: Prof. Jon Warland
School of Environmental Sciences
Jon: My research focuses on the exchange of gases and energy

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between the surface and the atmosphere.
So we measure how much carbon dioxide is taken up 
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by plants or how much nitrous oxide comes out of a soil.
This is important for greenhouse gas exchange in understanding those budgets.
It's also important for understanding how to properly irrigate a crop without wasting water.
It's very interesting just to understand how a plant system behaves to the atmosphere,
how it responds to drought, how it responds to changing conditions. 
So it's a fascinating field of study.

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Jon: An exciting project I'm currently working 
on is trying to figure out how they can grow turfgrass,
 natural grass, inside at the Rogers Centre for the Blue Jays. 
In this project I have been able to develop 
new technology to measure temperature and humidity, that we can deploy very cheaply all around the stadium.
So we've been able to able to build about forty of these
sensors, these data logging units, and deploy them to get the measurements of what 
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the air temperature and humidity are like in the stadium right now.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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