Maja Krzic

Areas of research include:

• Linking soil science research with teaching along with community involvement to create educational environment where students can actively engage in ‘real-world’ problems
• Combining soil science concepts and the impact of humans on soil properties and processes in crop, grassland, and forest ecosystems
• Exploring the role of soil in addressing some of the existential global sustainability challenges we are facing

Projects

Improving on-farm woody habitat management in the lower Fraser River Delta Completed
March, 2013 – April, 2015

BC Agricultural Research & Development Corporation

Terrestrial Research on Ecosystems and World-wide Education & Broadcast Current
January, 2011 – December, 2016

NSERC – CREATE

Flexible learning lab module focused on soil classification Completed
September, 2013 – August, 2015

Flexible Learning

Demonstrating Long-term Improvements in Soil Productivity on Delta Farmland Current
March, 2015 – March, 2020

BC Investment Agriculture Foundation

Improving on-farm drainage management to reduce the impacts of climate change in Delta, BC Completed
August, 2015 – August, 2017

BC Farm Adaptation Innovator Program

Long-term impacts of biosolids application on soil quality and vegetation at the OK Ranch, Jesmond, BC Completed
April, 2016 – March, 2017

Metro Vancouver

Soil productivity as impacted by grassland set-asides Current
January, 2016 – February, 2020

MITCAS

Digging In: An Educational Tool Promoting Science Citizenship for the Introduction to Soil Science Course Completed
April, 2016 – March, 2017

TLEF

Awards

CNIE Award of Merit in the Media Festival for the instructional, post-secondary awarded by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) 2009
AMTEC Award of Merit by the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC) 2007
CADE Award of Excellence for Partnership and Collaboration by the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) 2007
UBC Killam Teaching Prize 2006
North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Teaching Award of Merit 2006
CNIE Award of Excellence in the Innovation in Web Design category awarded by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) 2011
CNIE Award of Merit in the Graphic Design category by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education 2012
Mentoring Award by the Association for Women Soil Scientists, Soil Science Society of America 2013
CNIE Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Integration of Technology, in a Formal or Non-Formal Educational Program 2014
Quarry Life Award (3rd place) 2014
Platinum MARCOM Award in the mobile and web-based technology category for the educational project SOILx 2014
Platinum AVA Digital Award in the Information Experience category for the educational project SOILx 2015
3M National Teaching Fellowship 2016
BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education 2018
UBC Open Education Resource Champion 2019