Affiliations
Email: Henry.Chau@lincoln.ac.nz
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Honours, awards, and memberships
- New Zealand Soil Science Society
- Canadian Society of Soil Science
- Soil Science Society of America
- Canadian Water Resources Association
- Crop Science Society of America
- American Society of Agronomy
Research Interests
My current research focus includes understanding the movement and storage of water and nutrients in soil and its effects on agricultural production and environmental health, improving soil water measurement and monitoring, understanding the spatially and temporally variability of soil water at different scales, improving water storage capability on reclaimed and remediated landscapes. Key specialties include soil and environmental physics, vadose-zone hydrology, soil water measurement and monitoring, soil water repellency, soil mycology, land reclamation, and soil spatial and temporally variability.
List of your recent publications
1. Ji, W., Lin, M., Biswas, A., Si, B. C., Chau, H.W., & Cresswell, H. P. (2016). Fractal behavior of soil water storage at multiple depths. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions, 1-28. doi:10.5194/npg-2015-81
2. Hu, W., Chau, H.W., & Si, B.C. (2015). Vis-Near IR Reflectance Spectroscopy for Soil Organic Carbon Content Measurement in the Canadian Prairies. Clean - Soil, Air, Water, 43(8), 1215-1223. doi:10.1002/clen.201400400
3. Hu, W., Xie, J., Chau, H.W., & Si, B. C. (2015). Evaluation of parameter uncertainties in nonlinear regression using Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. Environmental Systems Research, 4(1). doi:10.1186/s40068-015-0031-4
4. Chau, H.W., Biswas, A., Vujanovic, V., & Si, B.C. (2014). Relationship between the severity, persistence of soil water repellency and the critical soil water content in water repellent soils. Geoderma, 221-222, 113-120. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.12.025
5. Dobrovolskaya, Y.V., Chau, H.W., & Si, B.C. (2014). Improving water storage of reclamation soil covers by fractionation of coarse-textured soil. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 94(4), 489-501. doi:10.4141/CJSS2013-086
6. Biswas, A., Cresswell, H.P., Chau, H.W., Viscarra Rossel, R.A., & Si, B.C. (2013). Separating scale-specific soil spatial variability: A comparison of multi-resolution analysis and empirical mode decomposition. Geoderma, 209-210, 57-64. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.06.003
7. Chau, H.W., Goh, Y.K., Vujanovic, V., & Si, B.C. (2012). Wetting properties of fungi mycelium alter soil infiltration and soil water repellency in a γ-sterilized wettable and repellent soil. Fungal Biology, 116(12), 1212-1218. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2012.10.004
8. Biswas, A., Chau, H.W., Bedard-Haughn, A.K., & Si, B.C. (2012). Factors controlling soil water storage in the hummocky landscape of the Prairie Pothole Region of North America. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 92(4), 649-663. doi:10.4141/CJSS2011-045
9. Vujanovic, V., & Chau, H.W. (2012). Monitoring Fusarium complex mycelia replacement by mycopathogenic Sphaerodes using alcohol percentage test, qRT-PCR and HPLC. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 80, 28-34. doi:10.1016/j.pmpp.2012.07.004
10. Chau, H.W., Goh, Y.K., Si, B.C., & Vujanovic, V. (2011). An innovative brilliant blue FCF method for fluorescent staining of fungi and bacteria. Biotechnic and Histochemistry, 86(4), 280-287. doi:10.3109/10520295.2010.492733
11. Hunter, A. E., Chau, H.W., & Si, B.C. (2011). Impact of tension infiltrometer disc size on measured soil water repellency index. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 91(1), 77-81. doi:10.4141/CJSS10033
12. Chau, H.W., Goh, Y.K., Si, B.C., and Vujanovic, V. (2010). Assessment of alcohol percentage test for fungal surface hydrophobicity measurement. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 50:295-300.
13. Chau, H.W., Si, B.C., Goh, Y.K., and Vujanovic, V. (2009). A novel method for identifying hydrophobicity on fungal surfaces. Mycological Research. 113:1046-1052.