On February 23 and 24, the BC living Lab (LL-BC) and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network (ACARN) hosted a BC Agricultural Research Data Protocol workshop. during the two-day interdisciplinary workshop participants and presenters worked together to define collective approaches for measuring soil organic carbon, greenhouse has emissions and co-benefits of beneficial management practices for agricultural production systems in BC.
Research methods for a range of objectives related to agricultural climate solutions were discussed in depth with the goals of defining common approaches, better integrating data collection efforts and advancing data sharing.
Day one of the workshop focused on how to build common approaches through the LL-BC and day two looked at how to extend beyond the LL-BC.
RESOURCES & DOWNLOADS:
DAY 1 PRESENTATIONS
ACS Living Labs strategy for socio-economics | Video
Challenges of scaling soil carbon data over space and time | Video
Co-benefits measurements for the BC Living Lab: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada’s approach | Video
Choosing soil health measurements for large-scale adoption | Video
Farm Nitrogen Budgets | (see video below)
Nutrient management with growers | Video
Socio-economics designing the research | Video
Soil Microbiology Evaluation Methods | Video
Soil organic carbon measurements for BC Living Lab: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada’s approach | Video
Prevalence of soil-borne pests and diseases in relation to soil health | Video
DAY 2 PRESENTATIONS
Data requirements to model carbon and GHG emissions and removals for Canada’s GHG inventory | Video
Data stewardship and data governance | Video
i-Open agri-data: ethical use | Video
LITEFARM: tools for farmers | Video
Remote sensing for evaluating health of agricultural ecosystems | Video
Soil technical working group draft recommendations | Video
Soil health and carbon sequestration protocol for B.C. | Video
Priorities, programming, & reporting | Video
ADDITIONAL:
Soil health indicator selection summary 2022
SUPPORTING RESEARCH PAPERS
Munro, P, et al, 2020, ‘Soil biota from newly established orchards are more beneficial to early growth of cherry trees than biota from older orchards,’ Applied Soil Ecology, vol. 155 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103658
Paul, S.S, et al, 2020, ‘Tracking changes in soil organic carbon across the heterogeneous agricultural landscape of the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia,’ Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138994
Rochette, P, et al, 2018, ‘Soil nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils in Canada: Exploring relationships with soil, crop and climatic variables,’ Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 254, pp. 68-81 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.021
Wang, S, et al, 2023, ‘Cross-scale sensing of field-level crop reside cover: Integrating field photos, airborne hyperspectral imaging, and satellite data,’ Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 285 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113366
This workshop was supported in part by the BC Living Lab. Additional funding was provided by the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
