Si, B.C. and L.S. Barbour. Investigation on the causes of hydrophobicity of reclamation soils. $203,000. CONRAD. 2008-2009.
B.C. Si, L. Barbour and L. Leskew, Maximizing Soil Water Availability in Coarse-Grained Soil, $371,239. Cumulative Environmental Management Association, September 12, 2006 - September 30, 2008.
B.C. Si, Soil Water Redistribution and the Fate and Transport of Chemicals in Nonlevel Landscapes, $124,950. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grant – Category 1, April 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006.
G. Henry and 49 others, Climate Change Impacts on Canadian Arctic Tundra Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary and Multi-scale Assessments, $7,000,000. Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year. May 1, 2007-April 30, 2012.
Select Publications
Lungal, M. and B.C. Si. 2008. A coiled TDR probe for measurement of soil water potential. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. (In Press) .
Liu, G., and B.C. Si. 2008. Dual-Probe Heat Pulse method for snow density and thermal properties measurement. Geophysical Research Letters (In Press).
Liu, G., and B.C. Si. 2008. Multilayer diffusion model applied to chamber-based measurements of gas fluxes. Agricultural and Forestry Meteorology (Accepted).
Biswas, A., B.C. Si and F. Walley. 2008. Spatial relationship between delta N-15 and elevation in agricultural landscapes. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. 15:397-403.
Liu, G., and B.C. Si. 2008. Analytical modeling of one-dimensional diffusion in layered systems with position-dependent diffusion coefficients. Advances in Water Resources. 31:251–268.
Si, B.C., and E. de Jong. 2007. Determining Groundwater Recharge from Multiple Tracers. Journal of Environmental Quality, 36: 1686-1694.
Tallon, L., B.C. Si, D. Korber and X. Guo, 2007. Soil Wetting State and Preferential Transport of Escherichia coli in Heavy Clay Soils. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 87, 61-72.
Si, B.C., 2007. Spatial Scaling Analyses of Soil Physical Property: A Review of Spectral and Wavelet Methods. Vadose Zone Journal (Accepted for publication, April 2006)
Luca, C., B.C. Si and R.E. Farrell, 2007. Assessing Spatial Distribution and Joint Uncertainty of TPH-Fractions: Indicator Kriging And Sequential Indicator Simulation. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 87-551-56
Zeleke, T.B., and B.C. Si, 2007. Field Scale Variability and Power-law Correlations in Soil Water Retention Parameters: Wavelet Based Multifractal Analysis. Water Resource Research, 43, WO7446,doi 10.1029/2006WR004957.
Yates, T., B.C. Si, R.E. Farrell and D. Pennock, 2007. Time, Location and Scale Dependence of Soil Nitrous Oxide Emission, Water and Temperature using Wavelets Coherency Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D09104, doi:10.1029/2006JD007662
Current Courses
ENVS 805.3 - Environmental Data Analysis and Management
Current Research
Hydrophobicity of reclamation soils.
Soil layering on soil water storage and land reclamation.
Scale dependence of arctic soil properties.
Other Courses
SLSC 322.3 - Environmental Soil Physics
SLSC 821.3 - Soil Physics
SLSC 898.3 - Spatial Statistics for Environmental Science
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