Sebastian Damin

Graduate Student –MSc in Soil Science 

Email:  damins@student.ubc.ca, sebastian.damin@agr.gc.ca

Education

  • BSc – Biology, Simon Fraser University (2021)

 Research Interests

  • Integration of crop production and carbon storage systems
  • Mitigation of agricultural impacts on climate change
  • Impacts of climate change on soil organic carbon
  • Agricultural Ecology

Current Research

Study 1: Soil Carbon Management in Okanagan Orchards

I am currently working on carbon recapture strategies for perennial orchard systems in the Okanagan B.C., investigating the impacts of soil surface management strategies: organic mulches and cover crops. Investigating the resilience of carbon in agricultural soils to climate warming. More information about this project can be found here.

Publications

Renyard, A., Gries, R., Lee, J., Chalissery, J. M., Damin, S., Britton, R., & Gries, G. (2021). All sugars ain’t sweet: selection of particular mono-, di- and trisaccharides by western carpenter ants and European fire ants. Royal Society Open Science, 8(8), 210804. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210804