May 30, 2019
K-State hosts 2019 National Soil Moisture Workshop
Submitted by Andres Patrignani
Kansas State University recently hosted The 2019 National Soil Moisture Workshop, which included several faculty, staff and student participants.
The annual workshop provides a unique opportunity for national leaders in soil moisture research to come together in an interactive workshop format to exchange cutting-edge ideas, develop collaborations, and identify application-oriented research needs. This year the workshop had 103 registered participants, representing more than 35 state and federal institutions.
In addition, 16 students participated in the graduate student poster competition. Pedro Rossini, master's student in agronomy, received second place for his poster about "Delineation of field management zones using soil moisture data and temporal stability analysis." Rossini works in the Soil Water Processes Lab at K-State.
K-State participants included:
• Andres Patrignani, assistant professor of agronomy and organizer of the 2019 workshop.
• Chip Redmond, presenter, Kansas Mesonet.
• Dwayne Roth, presenter, Innovative Kansas Producer.
• Wes Dyer, doctoral student in horticulture and natural resources and poster presenter.
• Nathaniel Parker, doctoral student in agronomy and poster presenter.
• Colleen Gura, master's student in geography and poster presenter.
• Ameneh Tavakol, doctoral student in biological and agricultural engineering
• Mu Hong, doctoral student in horticulture and natural resources.
• Sonisa Sharma, postdoctoral fellow at the Agricultural Research Center in Hays.
• Ramesh Dhungel, postdoctoral fellow in the agronomy department.
• Jonathan Aguilar, assistant professor, irrigation specialist, biological and agricultural engineering.
• Rob Aiken, crops research scientist, K-State Northwest Research-Extension Center.
• Mary Beth Kirkham, university distinguished professor of agronomy.
• Dale Bremer, professor of horticulture and natural resources.
• Daniel Devlin, director of the Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment.
• Behzad Ghanbarian, assistant professor of geology and presenter.
• Gerard Kluitenberg, professor of soil physics, agronomy.
• Vahid Rahmani, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering.
• Michael Ransom, agronomy interim department head.
More information, including recorded presentations, is available on the workshop website.