Project List

2022

Using the irrigation-energy linkage to estimate irrigation water delivery (continued from 2020 and 2021) Metadata
Principal Investigator: Amy Harsch, Nebraska Water Balance
Industry Partner:  Grower Information Services Co-op

Developing a data assimilation and integration tool for irrigation management technologies used by California Almond Growers
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Bambach, Ph.D., University of California Davis
Industry Partner: Almond Board of California

Extension outreach tools to improve adoption of irrigation management technologies in the Texas Panhandle Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Principal Investigator: David Parker, Ph.D., West Texas A&M University & Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Industry Partners: Better Harvest Co., Providence Farms

Organizing and analyzing Testing Ag Performance Solutions program data, quantifying productivity and GHG outcomes for corn, grain sorghum, and cotton
Principal Investigator: Daran Rudnick, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2021

Precision mobile drip for specialty crop vegetable production Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Principal Investigator: Qingwu Xue, Ph.D. Texas A&M University
Industry Partners: Dragon Line, Valmont, and Dynamax Inc.

Advancing pivot automation with proximal sensing for maize and soybean in the Great Plains (continued from 2020) Metadata
Principal Investigator: Derek Heeren, Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Industry Partner: Valmont

Irrigation scheduling using soil water supply and atmospheric evaporative demand Metadata 1 , 2 , 3
Principal Investigator: Trenton Franz, Ph.D. University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Industry Partners: Aspiring Universe Corporation, Arable Lab, HydroInnova LLC, Corteva and PlanetLabs Inc.

Connecting field-scale performance to watershed health: the added power of sharing data (continued from 2020) Metadata
Principal Investigator: Dayle McDermitt, Ph.D. Nebraska Water Balance Alliance
Industry Partners: Grower Information Services Cooperative, Olsson

Quantifying irrigation water savings of Agrivoltaics
Principal Investigator: Jordan Macknick, Ph.D. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Industry Partner: Jack’s Solar Garden

Sustainable plasticulture recycling opportunities Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
Principal Investigator: Charles Hillyer, Ph.D. California State University-Fresno
Industry Partners: Jain Irrigation, DOW Chemical

Precision irrigation on golf courses with soil moisture sensors and mapping Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
Principal Investigator: Chase Straw, Ph.D. Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Industry Partners: The Toro Company, United States Golf Association

2020

Advancing the development of the Parallel 41 Flux Network (continued from 2019 and 2018) Metadata 1 , 2 , 3
Principal Investigators: Christopher Neale, Ph.D., Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Eduardo Santos, Ph.D.,
Kansas State University
Industry Partners: LI-COR

Optimizing irrigation of turfgrass with precision technology Metadata
Principal Investigator: Jay Ham, Ph.D., Colorado State University, Cathie Lavis, Ph.D., Kansas State University
Industry Partners: The Toro Company, AeXonis

Toward pivot automation with proximal sensing for maize & soybean in the Great Plains Metadata
Principal Investigator: Derek Heeren, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Industry Partners: USDA-ARS-Bushland, TX, Valmont Industries

Precision irrigation water management with remote sensing in California orchards Metadata 1 , 2 , 3
Prinicpal Investigator: Dilruba Yeasmin, Ph.D., Fresno State University
Industry Partners: WiseConn USA, Irrometer

An economic impact study of the irrigation industry
Principal Investigators: George Oamek Ph.D., Headwaters Association, John Farner, Irrigation Association
University Partners: Colorado State University, Kansas State University, Fresno State University, Texas A&M University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Connecting field scale performance to watershed health: the added power of sharing data Metadata
Principal Investigator: Dayle McDermitt, Ph.D. Nebraska Water Balance Alliance
Industry Partners: Growers Information Services Cooperative, Olsson Engineering, Twin Platte Natural Resources District

Onsite solar nitrogen production Data and Discussion Paper
Principal Investigator: Niko Pinkowski, Ph.D., Nitricity
University Partner: Charles Hillyer, Fresno State University

Testing landscape irrigation flow sensors
Principal Investigator: Brent Mecham, Ph.D., Irrigation Association-retired

Field Testing of a new protocol for evaluating weather-based irrigation controllers
Principal Investigator: Mark Crookston Ph.D., Northern Water

Wireless sensors for modeling crop evapotranspiration
Principal Investigators: Matthw Lurtz, Ph.D. candidate and Ryan R. Morrison Ph.D., Colorado State University

Measuring crop water use with a novel Internet-of-Things sap-flow system
Principal Investigators: Maria C. Capurro, Ph.D. candidate, Allan Andales, Ph.D., Jay Ham Ph.D., Colorado State University

Calibration and evaluation of a multi-scale spatially distributed ET algorithm
Principal Investigators: Principal Investigators: José Chávez, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Northern Water

2019

Satellite and UAS imagery used to apply timely irrigation strategies Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Principal Investigators: José Chávez, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Lindsay Corporation

Vertical irrigation solutions with machine learning Metadata 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Principal Investigator: Joshua Craver, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Vertical Irrigation LLC

Improving maize production with subsurface drip irrigation Metadata 1 , 2 , 3
Principal Investigator: Freddie Lamm, Ph.D., Kansas State University

New Soil Moisture Technology for Improving Landscape Irrigation Management
Principal Investigator: Jay Ham Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: The Toro Company

Expanding the Parallel 41 flux network (continued from 2018)
Principal Investigator: Christopher Neale, Ph.D., Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Industry Partner: LI-COR

Reducing nutrient runoff in surface-irrigated sugarbeets
Principal Investigator: Erik Wardle, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Western Sugar

Low pressure and low flow media filtration system
Principal Investigator: Kaomine Vang Ph.D., Fresno State University
Industry Partner: Perigo LLC

Artificial neural network model Metadata
Principal Investigator: Fayzul Pasha, Ph.D., Fresno State University
Industry Partners: WiseConn, AgH2O, Dynamax, JAIN Irrigation, Irrometer

Irrigation and pumping plant efficiency tool Metadata
Principal Investigator: Joel Schneekloth Ph.D., Colorado State University Extension
Industry Partners: EPRI, Tri-state G&T

Irrigation scheduling with remote sensing under full and deficit irrigation
Principal Investigators: José Chávez, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Colorado Corn

2018

Predictive modeling of delivered water utilizing power consumption data
Principal Investigator: Davide Zoldoske, Ph.D., Fresno State University
Industry Partners: REDtrac, Madera Pumps, and McCrometer

Radio wave moisture sensing technology
Principal Investigator: Davide Zoldoske, Ph.D., Fresno State University
Industry Partner: Digital Springs, LLC

Remote sensing-based decision support with micro-satellites & ground-based data Metadata
Principal Investigators: José Chávez, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: Lindsay Corporation

Underground wireless networks for soil moisture sensing and irrigation water management
Principal Investigator: Jay Ham Ph.D., Colorado State University
Industry Partner: The Toro Company

Transforming eddy covariance flux stations for real-time data delivery Metadata
Principal Investigator: Christopher Neale, Ph.D., Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Industry Partner: LI-COR, The Climate Corporation