Dr. Jianghua Wu

Several projects conducted by Dr. Jianghua Wu and his team focus on a concept everyone on the planet is familiar with: greenhouse gases.

"The goals of our work are, one, to find out how the boreal peatland ecosystems respond to agricultural drainage and climate change in terms of carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions and to use the empirical observation and measurements to feed into the process-based ecosystem model that will help us predict how boreal peatlands work in the projected future; and, two, to look into a way for which we can increase the forage crop production in NL while mitigate greenhouse gas emissions," explained Dr. Wu.

"So far, we have six papers published in the top-tier journals from these research projects," he said. "One of the papers was published in Communications Biology, a satellite journal of Nature.com, and two were published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, the top journal in forestry. Two project reports were submitted to the provincial government, and three poster presentations were made at conferences." Dr. Wu received a Discovery Grant from NSERC, a grant from Memorial University’s seed fund, a Growing Forward 2 grant (a federal/provincial partnership) and funding from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership program for this research.

"In addition to our research at Grenfell Campus, I have been collaborating with my colleagues in China to study the carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in lakes in China and peatlands in China," he added. "My collaborators in China are from Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; International Centre of Bamboo and Rattan; Northeast Normal University; and South China Normal University. I have co-authored with my collaborators to publish six papers in top-tier journals."