Irrigation

• Sensing and modeling
  • Soil moisture sensing using cosmic ray and RF based sensors (Sony Cooperation)
  • Stem water potential sensing using osmometers and microtensiometers (Almond Board)
  • Salinity stress sensing using VOCs (Sandia National Lab)
  • Soil nitrate sensing (CDFA SCBG)

• Limited irrigation management for specialty crops
  • Almonds (Almond Board)
  • Pistachios
  • Processing tomatoes (US-Israel BARD)

• Limited irrigation management for field crops
  • Alfalfa (USDA NIFA)

• Recycled water reuse for irrigation
  • Impact of recycled water reuse for irrigation on soil sodicity, salinity, and crop production  (Water Research Foundation)

Hydrology

• Groundwater Sustainability
  • Groundwater demand reduction through land-water allocation optimization (USDA NIFA)
  • Groundwater supply increase through early spring flood irrigation followed by microirrigation (USDA NIFA)

• Soil Hydrology
  • Vadose zone monitoring and modeling of nitrate leaching to groundwater (USDA NRCS CEAP, AIFS)
  • Water and carbon cycling in pistachio orchards with and without cover crops (USDA ARS)

• Evapotranspiration measurement and modeling
  • Validation of remote sensing of ET of applied water (ETAW) for monitoring groundwater allocation under SGMA (USDA NIFA)