Current Research Projects

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Modeling

• GIS modeling linking landscape characteristics & water resource data
• Combining hydrologic modeling and economic factors to optimize water management for a vietnamese wetland system

Irrigation

• Water and nutrient leaching losses from turf lawns using different closed-loop irrigation methods
• Assessing nutrient leaching under different nutrient and irrigation management practices in an avocado orchard
• Evaluation of automatic evapotranspiration-based irrigation scheduling controllers for water and energy saving in southern Florida tropical fruit orchards
• Assessment of water savings using soil water sensors and ET controllers in urban settings
• Effect of irrigation management on papaya growth & physiology 2005 to 2009
• Improving water quality at the watershed level by targeting high return stakeholders

Water Quality

• Storm event sampling in Biscayne Bay Watershed
• Biscayne Bay and Watershed water quality data analysis
• Characterization & analyses of water quality data in the Indian River Lagoon

Water & Soil

• Modeling soil water dynamics and flooding above a shallow water table as tesponses to changes in canal stage
• NSF REU water and energy balances
• Capillary rise studies in South Florida soils
• Comparison of bucket lysimeters & soil water samplers as methods for evaluating nutrient leaching

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