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Data for: A Living Laboratory for Water Sustainability at UBC Farm Johnson, Mark; MacLennan, Erik; Kals, Morten; Morillas, Laura

Description

This dataset contains data collected through the UBC Farm Long-Term Water Monitoring Program, which started in July 2019.

The project will develop a water innovations node for UBC’s Campus as a Living Laboratory initiative to conduct water monitoring and evaluate water use reduction strategies to minimize the water footprint of agriculture at UBC Farm and support UBC’s Water Action Plan. The project will increase the capacity of UBC Farm as a leading living laboratory for research, teaching and learning on water sustainability with academic, public sector and industrial partners. The project will implement new, smart, integrated water and climate monitoring technology at UBC Farm. This will enable living-lab based research to develop water conserving strategies and conduct innovative research across the food-energy-water nexus. The project will also inform best practices on water management and irrigation for urban agriculture and climate change, which can be scaled across campus to reduce UBC’s water footprint, and serve as a focal node for research related to water use in the regional agrifood system.

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Title
Data for: A Living Laboratory for Water Sustainability at UBC Farm
Creator
Johnson, Mark; MacLennan, Erik; Kals, Morten; Morillas, Laura
Contributor
McDowell, Mollie
Date Issued
2020-02-24
Description
This dataset contains data collected through the UBC Farm Long-Term Water Monitoring Program, which started in July 2019.

The project will develop a water innovations node for UBC’s Campus as a Living Laboratory initiative to conduct water monitoring and evaluate water use reduction strategies to minimize the water footprint of agriculture at UBC Farm and support UBC’s Water Action Plan. The project will increase the capacity of UBC Farm as a leading living laboratory for research, teaching and learning on water sustainability with academic, public sector and industrial partners. The project will implement new, smart, integrated water and climate monitoring technology at UBC Farm. This will enable living-lab based research to develop water conserving strategies and conduct innovative research across the food-energy-water nexus. The project will also inform best practices on water management and irrigation for urban agriculture and climate change, which can be scaled across campus to reduce UBC’s water footprint, and serve as a focal node for research related to water use in the regional agrifood system.
Subject
Agricultural Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Engineering; organic agriculture; irrigation; water management; soil water content; soil chemicophysical properties
Geographic Location
Vancouver; UBC Farm; British Columbia
Type
Dataset
Date Available
2020-02-18
Provider
University of British Columbia Library
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0388685
URI
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/HZVXDU
Publisher DOI
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/HZVXDU
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Country
Canada
Aggregated Source Repository
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