I. Kisekka

Isaya Kisekka is an MS student in Agricultural and Biological Engineering.  He received a BS in Agricultural Eningeering from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Research topic: Evaluation of automatic evapotranspiration-based irrigation scheduling controllers for water and energy saving in southern Florida tropical fruit orchards

Project goal: The study is evaluating potential water and energy savings that can be achieved with ET-based controllers using real-time and historical weather data to schedule irrigation. The project also seeks to evaluate the effect of ET-based irrigation scheduling on net CO2 assimilation, transpiration, stomatal conductance and stem water potential. Lastly, this project compares ET received by the controller from remote weather stations to ET measured on site using the ASCE-standardized reference evapotranspiration equation.