Dr. Denis Angers, President

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec City, Québec

Denis is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Québec City. His research has involved soil structure, and C and N cycling, with the overall objective of reducing soil degradation and net greenhouse gas emissions. He obtained his B.Sc.A. (Bio-Agronomie) from the Université Laval, his M.Sc. in Soil science from the University of Guelph, and his Ph. D. in Soil Science from McGill University.

Denis is Adjunct Professor of Soil Science at Laval and McGill Universities, and has been visiting scientist at INRA, France and at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Invited Professor at the Faculty of Agronomy in Rennes, France. He has been a scientific advisor for the OECD and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

Denis has served on the editorial board of several scientific journals (Soil and Tillage Research, Plant and Soil, Étude et Gestion des Sols) and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality. He was Section Editor of Soil Sampling and Methods of Analysis and one of the Editors of the Soil and Environmental Science Dictionary, both sponsored by the CSSS. He was Associate Editor and the first Special Issues Editor of the CJSS. He has served as Eastern Councillor of the CSSS and was Chair of the CSSS Annual Meetings in Montréal (2003) and Québec City (2007). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science and of the Soil Science Society of America.

Dr. Frank Larney, President Elect

Dr. Frank Larney is a Research Scientist (1989-present) in Soil Conservation with Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada at the Lethbridge Research Centre in southern Alberta . He conducts research on erosion effects on soil productivity, feedlot manure composting, nutrient management, soil reclamation, soil quality and irrigated and dryland cropping systems. He has B.Agr.Sc. (General Agriculture, 1979), M.Agr.Sc. (Soil Science, 1981), and Ph.D. (Soil Science, 1985) degrees from The National University of Ireland, University College Dublin. Frank spent his early career in Ireland as a Research Officer (tillage, soil compaction) with The Agricultural Institute, Oak Park , Carlow (1981-86). He also gained research experience in the US as a Post-doctoral Research Associate (no-till, soil physics), Dept. of Agronomy, Purdue Univ. , West Lafayette , Indiana (1986-88), and Australia as a Visiting Scientist (wind erosion), Dept. of Land & Water Conservation, Gunnedah , New South Wales (1997-98).

Dr. David Lobb, Past President
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. 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.

Isabelle Royer is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Québec City . She obtained her B.Sc.A. (Bio-Agronomie) from Université Laval, her M.Sc. in Soil Science also from Université Laval, and her Ph.D. in Water Science and Environment from Université du Québec, le centre INRS-ETE in Québec. Her research and extension activities focus on improving the utilization of organic amendments, while minimizing their negative impact on soil and water especially with regards to heavy metals and phosphorus. She has been a member of CSSS for several years. She is also the secretary of the AQSSS (Association Québécoise de Spécialistes en Sciences du Sol) since 2000. She has been part of every organizing meeting since then, and especially the joint meeting between CSSS and AQSSS in 2007 in Duchesnay, Québec where she was in charge of registration and logistics. She is also in the organizing committee of the CSSS/AQSSS meeting to be held in Québec in June 2012. She will be in charge of the scientific program with the chair of the organizing committee as well as the logistics. For eight
years, she was also in charge of editing the annual Newsletter of the AQSSS and she is looking forward to do the same for the CSSS Newsletter as Eastern Councillor of the CSSS.

Dr. Joselito Arocena (Western Councillor)
Ecosystem Science and Management Faculty, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia
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Lito M. Arocena has a PhD (University of Alberta) and Licentiate in Bodemkunde (Great Distinction) from the International Training Center for Post-Graduate Soil Scientists (State University of Ghent, Belgium). His research areas are based on the biogeochemical transformations of soil minerals and their applications to soil genesis, nutrient cycling in forestry and agriculture, ecology, environmental integrity and engineering, geomorphology and archaeology. In addition, the principles of micropedology guide his efforts to understand the ecosystem functions of soils. His service to the soil science community includes a continuing associate editor or member of the editorial board for the following journals: Canadian J Soil Science, J Environmental Quality, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Open Forestry J, Pedosphere, Spanish J Soil Science. Lito held appointments as the Canada Research Chair in Soil and Environmental Sciences and visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and the Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena (Spain). He is a professor at the Environmental Science and Engineering program at the University Northern British Columbia in Prince George, BC.

Mervin St. Luce, Graduate Student Representative
McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec

Mervin St.-Luce is currently a PhD student at McGill University and conducts research in nitrogen cycling at the Soils and Crops Research and Development Center of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Quebec, under the supervision of Drs Noura Ziadi AAFC, Quebec), Bernie Zebarth (AAFC, Fredericton) and Joann Whalen (McGill University). He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Agriculture and M.Phil. in Soil Science from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. His research objective is to gain a better understanding of nitrogen mineralization and the factors that control soil nitrogen supply in order to improve nitrogen management. He is focusing on labile organic nitrogen fractions, their biochemical transformation, and their individual and collective contribution to soil nitrogen supply under contrasting agricultural practices and soil properties.