People
Postdocs
Mario Guevara, PhD
Amninder Singh, PhD
PAST
Support Personnel
Kailuh Menefee
Junior Specialist
Samantha Lemus
Academic Coordinator
PAST
Paul Markley. Former Jr. Specialist.
Currently Graduate Student Researcher at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, TX. Researchgate
Currently Graduate Student Researcher at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, TX. Researchgate
Visiting Scientists and Students
Dr. Gopal Ramdas Mahajan, ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa, Goa, India
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Mireia Fontanet (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain). Co-host: T.H. Skaggs (USDA-ARS). Working on dynamic management zone delineation and variable rate irrigation.
Mireia Fontanet*, Elia Scudiero, Todd H. Skaggs, Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia, Francesc Ferrer, Gema Rodrigo, Joaquim Bellvert: “Dynamic Management Zones for Irrigation Scheduling”. Agricultural Water Management. 238: 106207
Abid Ali (University of Bologna, Italy). Co-host: with D.L. Corwin (USDA-ARS). Working on multiple year yield records analysis for precision agriculture applications.
Kristen Whitney (Chapman University, Orange, CA). Worked on building MODIS time series of vegetation indices for root-zone salinity mapping.
Kristen Whitney, Elia Scudiero*, Hesham M. El-Askary, Todd H. Skaggs, Mohamed Allali, Dennis L. Corwin: “Validating the use of MODIS time series for salinity assessment over agricultural soils in California, USA”. Ecological Indicators. 2018, 93C:889–898
Undergraduate Students
Ryan Culhane. Soil laboratory measurements. Investigating the relationships between selected soil physical properties in agricultural soils.
Grace Nguyen. Soil laboratory measurements.
PAST
Sagar Singal (Economics and Statistics). Space-time series analysis to investigate relationships between soil and selected crops across California.
Sadaf Kadir (Research in Science and Engineering fellow). Evaluating Machine Learning Digital Soil Texture Maps in Central and Southern California.