Jay Woosaree is a senior researcher and owner of Woosaree Environmental Inc., an environmental consulting firm providing services to natural resource companies. With over 29 years of experience, he specializes in reclamation, revegetation of disturbed lands, and validating environmental technologies and protocols. He has commercially released 22 varieties of native grasses and legumes and serves as a subject matter expert, providing environmental knowledge to decision-makers. His work includes evaluating best reclamation practices, identifying fire-resistant native plant species, examining salt impacts on plants, and training Aboriginal youth in land stewardship.
Systematic framework to assess restoration actions and outcomes based on meas...Richard Thackway
A unifying framework is presented for tracking the outcomes of intentional and unintentional land management practices on the condition components of plant communities. The framework is based on 22 indicators hierarchically organised into 10 functional, structural and compositional criteria. Changes in the values of criteria and indicators over time track the response of a plant community to land management practices. This involves a twostep process. First develop a systematic and comprehensive site-based chronology of land management practices over time. Second fully integrate relevant data and information on the responses of the plant community into the chronology of practices, actions and interventions. How, and to what degree, the practices effect the indicators is also recorded, including deliberate and/or inadvertent actions and outcomes. Data and information on the outcomes of actions is compiled from various sources including; direct measures of field-based attributes, estimates of attributes derived from expert elicitation, environmental histories, interviews with skilled subject specials and relevant metrics derived from multi-spatial and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets. Provided a competent ecologist has access to key resources, a preliminary assessment can be completed in three days. Indicators are scored separately using a metric 0-1, based on the response of the plant community’s indicator assessed relative to the indicator in the reference state. Indicator scores are aggregated and weighted separately for three components; functional (55%), structural (27%) and compositional (18%). The reference state is assigned 100%. This framework has been widely applied across major climate zones in Australia to track and explain observed decadal spatial and temporal changes in the condition of plant communities including changes due to restoration activities. Examples will be provided in how applications of this framework also provide insights in plant community resilience, possible system trajectories and future management options.
VAST-2 - Tracking effects of land management on veg condition over time at si...Richard Thackway
Presentation given to a workshop on “Developing a strategic revegetation and restoration recovery plan for the Brigalow. University of Queensland, Brisbane 14-15 May 2012.
Field research activity update on PhD proposal “Evaluation of agronomic practices on growth,
yield of cassava and some physical properties of soils in SW Nigeria” by Omolara Olabisi
Will kangaroos fly or can a functional landscape connectivity be achieved in ...CockburnWild
Presented by Renata Zelinova, Local Biodiversity Program Manager at the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA).
She presented an overview of studies into ecological connectivity in Perth and Peel, why habitat fragmentation is increasing, and why none of the ecological linkages are being protected.
Presented at the Cockburn Community Wildlife Corridor AGM 30th April at the Cockburn Wetlands Centre.
Field research activity update on PhD proposal “Improved crop management systems for
sustainable cassava production in sub-Saharan Africa” by Joy Adiele
Needingworth Quarry is the location for an exciting wetland restoration project arising from a collaboration between Hanson and the RSPB. As gravel extraction is completed in sections of Needingworth these areas are being restored into wetland habitats, including large areas of reedbed and associated rough grassland, which has been named Ouse Fen Nature Reserve. Reedbed restoration sites, typified by Needingworth also include areas of wet or dry rough grassland, with varying degrees of management through grazing, mowing and fencing. These grasslands in themselves potentially provide a valuable habitat for biodiversity, especially given the context of the considerable intensification of agricultural and other grasslands that has taken place over recent decades.
In this project we propose to investigate the insect biodiversity of grasslands surrounding the reedbed restoration units at Needingworth/Ouse Fen. The focus of our work will be the leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha), which are common in grassland and have been found to be useful indicators of management intensity effects. In particular we are interested in how leafhoppper communities are affected by the level of grazing by cattle and how they vary with distance from the reedbeds and open water. The principal objective is to increase our knowledge of insect communities in these habitats at Needingworth/Ouse Fen and to inform management practice decisions in relation to these grasslands, which it is hoped will help to further enhance the biodiversity value of the restoration.
The project won the 1st Prize in National Quarry Life Award in 2014 in the United Kingdom.
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/investigation-insect-biodiversity-grasslands-surrounding-reedbed-restoration-needingworth
INTERNSHIP REPORT
Work completed at
Soil Physics Research Program
LAND RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL REASERCH CENTRE ISLAMABAD
Relationship of Soil Physical & Chemical Properties with Aggregate Stability in Rice-Wheat Soil
Systematic framework to assess restoration actions and outcomes based on meas...Richard Thackway
A unifying framework is presented for tracking the outcomes of intentional and unintentional land management practices on the condition components of plant communities. The framework is based on 22 indicators hierarchically organised into 10 functional, structural and compositional criteria. Changes in the values of criteria and indicators over time track the response of a plant community to land management practices. This involves a twostep process. First develop a systematic and comprehensive site-based chronology of land management practices over time. Second fully integrate relevant data and information on the responses of the plant community into the chronology of practices, actions and interventions. How, and to what degree, the practices effect the indicators is also recorded, including deliberate and/or inadvertent actions and outcomes. Data and information on the outcomes of actions is compiled from various sources including; direct measures of field-based attributes, estimates of attributes derived from expert elicitation, environmental histories, interviews with skilled subject specials and relevant metrics derived from multi-spatial and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets. Provided a competent ecologist has access to key resources, a preliminary assessment can be completed in three days. Indicators are scored separately using a metric 0-1, based on the response of the plant community’s indicator assessed relative to the indicator in the reference state. Indicator scores are aggregated and weighted separately for three components; functional (55%), structural (27%) and compositional (18%). The reference state is assigned 100%. This framework has been widely applied across major climate zones in Australia to track and explain observed decadal spatial and temporal changes in the condition of plant communities including changes due to restoration activities. Examples will be provided in how applications of this framework also provide insights in plant community resilience, possible system trajectories and future management options.
VAST-2 - Tracking effects of land management on veg condition over time at si...Richard Thackway
Presentation given to a workshop on “Developing a strategic revegetation and restoration recovery plan for the Brigalow. University of Queensland, Brisbane 14-15 May 2012.
Field research activity update on PhD proposal “Evaluation of agronomic practices on growth,
yield of cassava and some physical properties of soils in SW Nigeria” by Omolara Olabisi
Will kangaroos fly or can a functional landscape connectivity be achieved in ...CockburnWild
Presented by Renata Zelinova, Local Biodiversity Program Manager at the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA).
She presented an overview of studies into ecological connectivity in Perth and Peel, why habitat fragmentation is increasing, and why none of the ecological linkages are being protected.
Presented at the Cockburn Community Wildlife Corridor AGM 30th April at the Cockburn Wetlands Centre.
Field research activity update on PhD proposal “Improved crop management systems for
sustainable cassava production in sub-Saharan Africa” by Joy Adiele
Needingworth Quarry is the location for an exciting wetland restoration project arising from a collaboration between Hanson and the RSPB. As gravel extraction is completed in sections of Needingworth these areas are being restored into wetland habitats, including large areas of reedbed and associated rough grassland, which has been named Ouse Fen Nature Reserve. Reedbed restoration sites, typified by Needingworth also include areas of wet or dry rough grassland, with varying degrees of management through grazing, mowing and fencing. These grasslands in themselves potentially provide a valuable habitat for biodiversity, especially given the context of the considerable intensification of agricultural and other grasslands that has taken place over recent decades.
In this project we propose to investigate the insect biodiversity of grasslands surrounding the reedbed restoration units at Needingworth/Ouse Fen. The focus of our work will be the leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha), which are common in grassland and have been found to be useful indicators of management intensity effects. In particular we are interested in how leafhoppper communities are affected by the level of grazing by cattle and how they vary with distance from the reedbeds and open water. The principal objective is to increase our knowledge of insect communities in these habitats at Needingworth/Ouse Fen and to inform management practice decisions in relation to these grasslands, which it is hoped will help to further enhance the biodiversity value of the restoration.
The project won the 1st Prize in National Quarry Life Award in 2014 in the United Kingdom.
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/investigation-insect-biodiversity-grasslands-surrounding-reedbed-restoration-needingworth
INTERNSHIP REPORT
Work completed at
Soil Physics Research Program
LAND RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL REASERCH CENTRE ISLAMABAD
Relationship of Soil Physical & Chemical Properties with Aggregate Stability in Rice-Wheat Soil
From the 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour.
Healthy soils are an important element in our daily lives. Learn how healthy soils can improve water quality, improve drought resilience, and increase productivity by maximizing moisture intake and retention in our soils.
Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation ProgramCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Richard A. MacKenzie, Randy Kolka, Cynthia Mackie, Mathew Warren, J. Boone Kauffman, Joko Purbospito, Daniel Murdiyarso, Carl Trettin and Erik Lilleskov
given during the Forests Asia summit in the discussion forum "Managing mangrove forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits" focuses on the SWAMP objectives, goals, how to use SWAMP to assess carbon pools and what's going to happen to the mangroves during and after the sea level rise.
Presented by Himlal Baral, Senior Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF, on the ITPC side event “Can bioenergy from degraded peatlands provide a potential alternative to meet growing energy demands? Lesson learned from Indonesia” at the XV World Forestry Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 4 May 2022.
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1. Woosaree Environmental Inc.
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JAY WOOSAREE, MAg, P Ag
(Distinguished)
Senior Researcher, Native Plants,
Revegetation & Ecosystems
Reconstruction and Aboriginal Land
Stewardship
Woosaree Environmental is an environmental consulting
firm, providing a broad range of services to clients in the
natural resources sector. We combine field expertise
with scientific acumen and a comprehensive
understanding of the regulatory framework to provide
exceptional services.
With over 29 years of experience in reclamation,
remediation, revegetation of disturbed habitats,
technology & environmental protocol validation.
Expertise in leading several projects in the resource
extraction (Energy and Forestry) and agricultural sectors
specializing in evaluating best practices, tools and
innovative products in enhancing reclamation practices
on disturbed lands and improving environmental
performance.
Native plants champion, including alternate crops, bio-
ingredients and feedstocks, from farm to market.
Serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing key
environmental knowledge and information that
translates into valued information for decision-makers.
Provides training to aboriginal youths in land
stewardship and entrepreneurship, exploring career
choices, caring for the land, identifying potential
applications and markets for seeds/plants, including
growing of various plants for marketing.
Collaborative partner with industry, the innovation
system (government, post-secondary institutions) and
communities taking ideas from conception to applied
research, coordinating and communicating the research
to end users.
Patents / Variety Releases
Jay has commercially released 22 ecological native grass and
legume varieties for the reclamation, re-vegetation and
restoration of disturbed habitats.
Recent Publications
Woosaree, J. 2015. Terrestrial Mesocosm as a Model System
for Evaluating Ecological Responses to oil sands process water
(OSPW) Exposure. In Golder Associates Ltd. (2015). COSIA Land
EPA 2014 Mine Site Reclamation Research Report. Calgary. AB:
Canadian Natural Resources Limited; Imperial; Shell Canada
Energy; Suncor Energy Inc.; Syncrude Canada Ltd.; Total E&P
Canada Ltd.; Teck Resources Limited. Pp135-136.,
Lancaster, J., Neville, M., Desserud, P., Craig, V., Adams, B., and
J. Woosaree. 2014. Long-Term Revegetation Success of
Industry Reclamation Techniques for Native Grassland:
Northern Fescue Natural Subregion. 149 pp.
Woosaree, J. and J.B. Anderson. 2012. Revegetation of tailings
sands without a soil cover in the Alberta oil Sands. In A. Fourie
and M. Tibbett (Eds) Proceedings of the Seven International
Conference on Mine Closure. Pp.197-206. Brisbane, Australia
Salifu, K. F., Woosaree, J., Wells S. and J.B. Anderson. 2011.
Innovative Techniques to Improve Reclamation Practices in
Alberta Oil Sands. In A.Fourie, M. Tibbett and A. Beersing (Eds)
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Mine
Closure. Vol 1, Pp.191-198. Lake Louise, AB. Published by the
Australian Centre for Geomechanics, the University of Western
Australia.
Acharya, S and J. Woosaree. 2009. Native plant development in
Alberta, Canada for reclamation and revegetation of disturbed
sites. In Environment Education: Global Issues and Policies.
Edited by Saikat Kumar Basu and Sudip Datta Banik A.P.H.
Publishing Corporation. New Delhi.
Foothills fescue grassland restoration, near the US-Canada
border
2. Relevant Projects
Native plant species propagation: - evaluate native species suitability for revegetation and develop complementary
technologies to cultivate these native species under field conditions.
Less flammable species to reduce values at risks from wildfires: - identified fire resistant species as a way to minimise the
potential for fire ignitions or fire spread in Alberta.
Salt Migration and Salinity Exposure to Plants in Reclamation: - examine how capping strategies influence salinity in the
rooting zone and plant growth in reclaimed soils in the oil sands region.
Remediating salt impacted roadways: - test native prairie species for their tolerance and capability to reclaim roadside salt-
affected soils.
Identifying key native species and efficient strategies for revegetating sensitive landscapes: oil sand areas, saline areas,
boreal forest and foothills regions: - select plants with improved performance to tolerate and grow in hydrocarbon
contaminated/salt-affected soil, providing an option to soil removal and land filling.
Application of remote sensing in wildlife management, definition of critical habitat, and landscape change in support of
grizzly bear conservation: - evaluate grizzly bear habitat-use is linked to the growth rate and development of plants – a critical
source of nutrition.
A Re-vegetation Manual for reclamation contractors in Alberta: - described innovative planning, best management practices
to minimize further disturbances and desired outcomes for the different ecoregions in Alberta.
Strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of reclamation success on native landscapes: developed a prescriptive method for
the eradication of non-native forages on native landscapes and to develop practices to rehabilitate sites affecting affected by
oil and gas developments.
Creative Sentencing project: Revegetation of wetland boreal plant species”: - Create tangible benefits for aboriginal persons,
both through any work opportunities created by the project and through the deliverables of the project. These include;
identifying native wetland species of significance to aboriginals and train them to recognise the plant species, learn about
seed and propagule collection, processing the plant materials, propagation, growth and re-introduction of these species.
Successfully reclaimed oil welll site assessment (L), tailings sand stabilisation (C L), pipeline vegetation recovery assessment
(CR) and training of college students (R).