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Barry Allred

Surface/subsurface hydrology.

 

Thomas Bean

Agricultural safety, safety systems; improving visibility of farm machinery and Amish buggies on highways.

 

Ross Brazee

Micro-climatology, pesticide application, fluid and spray dynamics; mathematical analysis and modeling; pest-control application technology for horticultural, landscape and field crops.

 

Larry Brown

Agricultural water management and quality, land drainage and irrigation; agricultural constructed wetlands.

 

Michael Brugger

Facilities Design; greenhouse, environment and systems research.

 

Ann Christy

Bio-environmental engineering; solid waste management systems; landfill bioreactors; disinfection technologies; fate and transport of agricultural and industrial chemicals.

 

Richard Derksen

Pesticide application technology for horticultural, nursery, and field crops; drift measurement and mitigation techniques.

 

Reza Ehsani

Precision agriculture, GPS, GIS, variable rate application; decision support system, instrumentation and sensor development for precision agriculture.

 

Norman Fausey

Water resources; drainage design; water management.

 

Robert Gustafson

Application of electrical power in agriculture; agricultural and residential wiring; stray voltage problems.

 

Robert Hansen

Computer-controlled irrigation and fertigation of container-grown landscape-nursery plants; computer-controlled irrigation, fertigation and environmental management for greenhouse crops. 

 

Gonul Kaletunc

Food engineering/food processing, physical properties characterization

 

Harold Keener

Mathematical modeling to optimize agricultural production systems, animal environments, composting and fluidized bed combustion of biomass.

 

Peter Ling

Applied greenhouse automation:  plant sensing and control automation for controlled environment plant production; applied machine vision and mechatronics for biological processes.

 

Karen Mancl

Wastewater treatment; water supply; waste management.

 

Jay Martin

Ecological engineering, natural & constructed wetlands, riverine and estuarine systems; ecological modeling; energy analysis.

 

Frederick Michel

Composting process engineering microbial ecology; bioremediation; organic production systems and animal facility environment modeling. 

 

Erdal Ozkan

Pesticide application technology; methods and equipment for minimizing spray drift and exposure to pesticides.

 

Randall Reeder

Conservation tillage; machine systems.

 

Sudhir Sastry

Food engineering; sterilization of solid-liquid mixtures; ohmic heating; moderate and pulsed electric field processing.

 

Ted Short

Energy efficient greenhouse system design; decision support for hydroponic growing; CFD modeling of natural ventilation.

 

Alfred Soboyejo

Structural and mechanical engineering; probabilistic methods.

 

Tara VanToai

Plant genetics, environmental stress tolerance.

 

Andrew Ward

Modeling hydrologic systems, drainage, water quality, remote sensing, soil erosion, reservoir sedimentation.

 

Lingying Zhao

Controlled Environment Engineering, system design and management of agricultural facility and equipment performance.