Ian Strachan
Associate Professor
Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Ian Strachan received PhD (2000) and MSc degrees at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) following an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. He completed post-doctoral research with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa. He joined McGill in 2001 and became the Faculty’s first Associate Dean (Graduate Education) in 2012. He is past-President of the Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorologists and served as a two-term member of the American Meteorological Society’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Research Interest
Professor Strachan studies the mechanisms controlling the release and uptake of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) in a variety of ecosystems. He is especially interested in ecosystems which have been disturbed or are managed by human activity. He measures these gas exchanges at large spatial scales and continuously through time using fast-response environmental sensors.
Publications
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Net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a temperate cattail marsh in relation to biophysical properties Authors Marie-Claude Bonneville, Ian B Strachan, Elyn R Humphreys, Nigel T Roulet
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Impact of nitrogen and environmental conditions on corn as detected by hyperspectral reflectance Authors Ian B Strachan, Elizabeth Pattey, Johanne B Boisvert
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Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture Authors Driss Haboudane, John R Miller, Elizabeth Pattey, Pablo J Zarco-Tejada, Ian B Strachan
