Graduate student research featured at Trent Farm Research Centre open house

Community members visiting the Trent Farm Research Centre on August 6, 2025 got to see graduate student research in action.

MSc students Victoria Vanslyke and Aleisha Cassidy demonstrated the use of ground penetrating radar and custom built rhizoboxes as they talked about their novel investigations of carbon inputs to soil from cover crops (funded by NSERC Alliance Missions).

MSc student Carling Serran showcased our new li-6800 to measure photosynthesis of crops planted in his peri-urban agricultural experiment investing greenhouse gas emissions and crop outcomes following land use transitions to organic methods (funded by NSERC-SSHRC Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative).

Left image (L to R): Tyra Lewis (from Dr. Sanela Martic's group), Dillon Muldoon (Dr. Karen Thompson's group), Aleisha Cassidy, Maggie Wareham (Dr. Anne Pasek's group), Victoria Vanslyke. Right image: Carling Serran.

Jennifer Nash from the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) did a great write up of the event and student research in the OSCIA newsletter Innovator (September 2025).