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PLANT CANADA 2024

Laura Van Eerd Joshua Nasielski Jagroop Gill Kahlon
Eastern Director Eastern Director Industry Representative

Ben Thomas Alexa Peterson
CJPS Representative Student Representative

CSA Activities

The CSA executive met five times over the last year. Key highlights of this year include:
The “Green Bagger” virtual lunch session started in October 2020 running once each month to
May. An initiative brought to the CSA by Amy Mangin, Laurel Thompson and Sheri Strydhorst
with the goal of building the CSA student community and helping to prepare students for live
oral presentations. The four students who presented in these sessions are well-represented
among our student award winners. This initiative will continue in 2023-2024.

Our annual conference, the CPS-CSA-CSHS tri-society conference was held June 17-20, 2023
and was a major success. There were over 250 registrants, about 20% of whom were CSA
members. There were 14 technical sessions composed of 106 oral presentations, and 3 invited
keynote speakers. A total of 101 posters were presented. The Canadian Society of Agronomy
also hosted a workshop on “Practical Carbon Capture GHG Emission Measurements: Methods,
Implementation and Uses” which also linked with a field tour of environmental science research
at the CFIA-Fallowfield station and plant breeding and environmental science research at the
Ottawa Research and Development Centre. There was a panel discussion on Equality,
Diversity, and Inclusion which was well attended by the participants. CSA also finalized and
singed the MOU with Canadian Science Publication. With the sincere efforts of Kathleen Glover,
multiple crop specific graduate student awards were build which will be awarded at the annual
meeting of 2024.

CSA members Jamie Larsen Mumtaz Cheema, Harpinder Randhawa, Kathleen Glover,
Gurcharn Singh Brar, Leonardo Galindo, André Lévesque, Jagroop Gill Kahlon, Hiroshi Kubota,
Nate Ort, Jaswinder Singh, Andrew Burt, Simon Lackey, Kui Liu Kui, Milad Eskandari and

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