Dr. Cynthia Grant, President
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon Research Centre Brandon, Manitoba
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Dr. Grant has conducted research on nutrient management in crop production since beginning of her M.Sc. in 1980. In that time, she has worked on a wide range or prairie crops and a range of macro- and micro-nutrients. Cynthia has published more than 95 scientific journal articles on nutrient management including invited review papers on nutrient management in diversified cropping systems for the American Society of Agronomy, on managing for low cadmium levels in crops for the International Conference of the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, on nitrogen management in reduced tillage systems for the European Journal of Soil Science, and on phosphorus fertility management for Canadian Journal of Plant Science. She has also co-edited a book on Integrated Nutrient Management published by Haworth Press. Dr. Grant has been recognized internationally for her work on nutrient management, being awarded the International Fertilized Industry Association Award (Paris, France), the Robert E. Wagner Award (PPI-Atlanta), the Fluid Fertilizer Foundation Researcher of the Year Award (Phoenix), and the Manitoba – North Dakota No-Till Non-Farmer of the Year Award. She also is a member of the International Fertilizer Industry Association Advisory committee, and the North American advisory committee for the International Plant Nutrition Institute. Dr. Grant is the lead for the NAHARP Trace Element Indicator.

Dr. David Lobb (President-Elect)
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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Dr. David Lobb is a Professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Manitoba.  He received his B.Sc. (1987) in physical geography from the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1998) in soil science from the University of Guelph.  Before moving to Manitoba in 1999, David worked in Ontario and across Atlantic Canada.  He grew up on a cash crop farm in southern Ontario. Dr. Lobb's research, teaching and extension activities are in the areas of soil erosion, soil and water conservation and sustainable agriculture.  David is internationally recognized for his research in tillage translocation and tillage erosion, particularly for his advances in experimental methods and modelling.  He has published over 40 scientific papers and book chapters in this area.  His expertise in soil erosion and conservation has been sought by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in
addition to provincial and federal government agencies in Canada.  In support of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's agri-environmental risk indicator program, David has made major contributions to the development of the tillage erosion risk and soil erosion risk indicator models.

Dr. Gordon Price, Past President

Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Department of Engineering, Truro, Nova Scotia
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Dr. Price’s research program ranges from evaluating composting of slaughterhouse wastes, to examining alternative energy capture systems, management and disposal of Specified Risk Materials (SRM), degradation of resistant proteins in soils and biological systems, and environmental impact of contaminants from organic amendments. Gordon is developing a long-term research program involving the environmental monitoring of organic contaminants in soil and water systems from municipal biosolids.

Dr. Barbara Cade-Menun (Secretary)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Saskatchewan
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Barbara is interested in phosphorus cycling in soils and water. She has earned her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biology from Queen’s University, M.Sc. in Soil Science (soil biology) from the University of British Columbia, and Ph.D. in Soil Science (soil chemistry / forest soils) from the University of British Columbia. Barbara did her post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkley, and at Stanford University in California, and then worked as a research scientist at Stanford University. Barbara recently returned to Canada as a research scientist (nutrient cycling) for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Semi-arid Prairie Agricultural Research Station at Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Barbara has been a member of CSSS since 1991, but has not yet had a chance to serve the Society. She was treasurer, vice –president, and president of the Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science as a graduate student. While in California, Barbara served on several committees for the Soil Science Society of America, including the Emil Truog Soil Science Award committee and the Emerging Issues in Soil Science (EISS) committee, chairing the EISS committee in 2006. Dr. Cade-Menun is also a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, and she has co-convened topical sessions for both societies at their annual meetings.

Bert VandenBygaart was awarded his Ph.D. in Soil Science in 1998 from the Department of Land Resource Science at the University of Guelph. At present he is a soil scientist in the Research Branch at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa where he studies soil organic carbon cycling, the accounting of carbon in Canadian agriculture, and pedology and landscape processes. Dr. VandenBygaart defines, organizes and carries out investigations in the field of soil carbon and pedology in support of national research programs. He also utilizes existing and new techniques for quantifying changes in soil carbon storage from field measurements and through modeling approaches. Dr. VandenBygaart has written or co-authored 35 peer-reviewed research papers in national and international journals, along with 4 book chapters. Dr. VandenBygaart has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Science since 2007.

Aimé Jean Messiga (Ph.D. Student), Graduate Student Representative
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Soils and Crops R&D Centre, Sainte-Foy, Quebec.
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Aimé Jean is PhD student at Laval University (Quebec) and conducts his research at the Soils and Crops R&D Center, Sainte-Foy (Quebec), under the supervision of Drs. Noura Ziadi (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) and Léon-Etienne Parent (Laval University). He has an “Ingénieur Agronome” degree from Dschang University (Cameroon) and a M.Sc. in Soil Science from Ghent University (Belgium). His concerns about sustainable agriculture and the protection of the environment have oriented his research on the effects of tillage practices and nutrients budgets on soil phosphorus status in various long-term agricultural systems including monoculture (corn) and crop rotations (corn/soybean). He uses mechanistic process-based modeling to study the dynamics of soil P using isotopic dilution techniques and radioactive 32P as such modeling could be useful to predict long-term changes in soil available P with agricultural practices.