Publications
Refereed Publications (Published or In-review)
Kersey, J.H., Paul, S. S., Dowell, L., Krzic, M., & Smukler, S.M. (In review). Long-term use of regenerative management practices improves farm capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate breakdown in coastal agricultural systems of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
Paul, S. S., Heung, B., & Lynch, D.H. (2023). Modeling of total and active organic carbon dynamics in agricultural soil using digital soil mapping: a case study from Central Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 103(1). doi: 10.1139/CJSS-2022-0012
Paul, S. S., Hasselquist, E.M., Jarefjäll, A., & Ågren, A.M. (2023). Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management. Ambio, 52(1). doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01770-8
Lidberg, W., Paul, S. S., Westphal, F., Richter, K., Lavesson, K., Melniks, R., Ivanovs, J., Ciesielski, M., Leinonen, A., & Ågren, A.M. (2023). Mapping drainage ditches in forested landscapes using deep learning and aerial laser scanning. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 149(3). doi: 10.1061/JIDEDH.IRENG-9796
Ågren, A.M., Hasselquist, E.M., Stendahl, J., Nilsson, M.B., & Paul, S. S. (2022). Delineating the distribution of mineral and peat soils at the landscape scale in northern boreal regions. Soil, 8(2). doi: 10.5194/soil-8-733-2022
Reich, J., Paul, S. S., & Snapp, S. (2021). Highly variable performance of sustainable intensification on smallholder farms: A systematic review. Global Food Security, 30. doi: 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100553
Ågren, A.M., Larson, J., Paul, S. S., Laudon, H., & Lidberg, W. (2021). Use of multiple LIDAR-derived digital terrain indices and machine learning for high-resolution national-scale soil moisture mapping of the Swedish forest landscape. Geoderma, 404. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115280
Paul, S. S., Dowell, L., Coops, N. C., Johnson, M., Krzic, M., Geesing, D., & Smukler, S. M. (2020). Tracking changes in soil organic carbon across the heterogeneous agricultural landscape of the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Science of the Total Environment, 732. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138994
Paul, S. S., Coops, N. C., Johnson, M., Krzic, M., Chandna, A., & Smukler, S. M. (2020). Mapping soil organic carbon and clay using remote sensing to predict soil workability for enhanced climate change adaptation. Geoderma, 363. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114177
Shen, L., Li, J., Wheate, R., Yin, J., & Paul, S. S. (2020) Multi-layer Perceptron Neural Network and Markov Chain based geospatial analysis of land use and land cover change. Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters 3(1). doi: 10.3808/jeil.202000023
Paul, S. S., Coops, N. C., Johnson, M., Krzic, M., & Smukler, S. M. (2019). Evaluating sampling efforts of standard laboratory analysis and mid-infrared spectroscopy for cost effective digital soil mapping at field scale using unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. Geoderma, 356. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113925
Paul, S. S., Li, J., Li, Y., & Shen, L. (2019). Assessing land use-land cover change and soil erosion potential using a combined approach through remote sensing, RUSLE, and random forest algorithm. Geocarto International. 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1614099
Paul, S. S., Akhter, S. H., Hasan, K., & Rahman, M. Z. (2019). Geospatial analysis of the depletion of surface water body and floodplains in Dhaka City (1967 to 2008) and its implications for earthquake vulnerability. Springer Nature Applied Sciences. 1(6), 565. doi: 10.1007/s42452-019-0582-5
Paul, S. S., Li, J., Wheate, R., & Li, Y. (2018). Application of object oriented image classification and Markov Chain modeling for land use and land cover change analysis. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 31(1), 30-40. doi: 10.3808/jei.201700368
Saha, G. C., Li, J., Thring, R. W., Hirshfield, F., & Paul, S. S. (2017). Temporal dynamics of groundwater-surface water interaction under the effects of climate change: A case study in the Kiskatinaw River Watershed, Canada. Journal of Hydrology, 551, 440-452. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.008
Saha, G. C., Li, J., Paul, S. S., & Thring, R. W. (2014). Investigation of watershed-scale surface water quality under changing land use conditions: a case study in Northern British Columbia. International Journal of Environmental Pollution and Remediation, 2(1), 45-51. doi: 10.11159/ijepr.2014.007
Paul, S. S., Hasan, K., Akhter, S. H., Li, J. (2012). Application of remote sensing and GIS analysis for investigating urbanization induced surface water body change in and around Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Full-length paper. Proceedings of the CSCE International Environmental Specialty Conference, ENV-1029, 1-8. Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.
Dissertation and Thesis
Paul, S. S. (2020). Digital soil mapping to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Lower Fraser Valley using remote sensing (Doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, BC, Canada. doi: 10.14288/1.0389816
Paul, S. S. (2013). Analysis of land use and land cover change in Kiskatinaw River watershed: A remote sensing, GIS & modeling approach (M. Sc. Thesis). University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada. doi: 10.24124/2014/bpgub962
Paul, S. S. (2010). Urbanization induced surface water body depletion in and around Dhaka city and consequent earthquake vulnerability: a remote sensing and GIS analysis (M. Sc. Thesis). University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Non-refereed Publications, Unpublished Reports, and Extension Briefs
Paul, S. S., Neufeld, K., & Smukler, S.M. (2017). Predicting soil water content and number of workable days under changing climate using DRAINMOD model in Delta, BC. Extension brief prepared for the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program (FAIP), British Columbia Project.
Paul, S. S., Neufeld, K., & Smukler, S.M. (2017). Digital soil mapping of soil workability in Delta, BC. Extension brief prepared for the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program (FAIP), British Columbia Project.
Neufeld, K., Paul, S. S., & Smukler, S.M. (2017). Impacts of tile drain cleaning over one year in Delta, BC. Extension brief prepared for the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program (FAIP), British Columbia Project.
Neufeld, K., Paul, S. S., & Smukler, S.M. (2017). Evaluation of drain spacing and ditch pumps in existing drainage systems in Delta, BC. Extension brief prepared for the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program (FAIP), British Columbia Project.
Neufeld, K., Paul, S. S., & Smukler, S.M. (2017). Improving on-farm drainage management to reduce the impacts of climate change in Delta, BC. Final report for the Farm Adaptation Innovator Program (FAIP), British Columbia Project.
Saha, G. C., Paul, S. S., & Hirshfield, F. (2013). Land use change and hydrologic modeling in the Kiskatinaw Watershed. Summary of work completed by UNBC in fulfillment of research contract RC10-2157. GeoScience BC Report 2013-19.
Saha, G. C., Paul, S. S., Li, J., Hirshfield, F., & Sui, J. (2013). Investigation of land-use change and groundwater–surface water interaction in the Kiskatinaw River watershed, northeastern British Columbia; in Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2012, Report 2013-1, 139-148.