Congratulations to PhD candidate Amninder Singh for publishing his first dissertation paper!12/6/2020 
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 UCRWATER PhD students and postdoc wishing Anish a successful exam after his mock presentation during the weekly lab meeting.
Congratulations to Anish for being awarded the prestigious UC’s Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship for his research on site-specific variable rate irrigation management in southern California!  Congratulations to Anish for successfully passing his qualification exam and getting one step closer to becoming a PhD candidate.
A new paper, with UCRWATER PhD student Anish Sapkota as the lead author, was published in Soil Systems. This open access review paper focuses on irrigation and greenhouse gas emissions.  Zahra Amiri and Jean Claude Iradukunda will join our group in Spring and Fall 2020.
Dr. Akanksha Garg will join our group as a postdoctoral research scholar in January 2020.
Amninder was awarded for his proposal entitled "Using Smart Irrigation Technologies to Optimize Recycled Water Application for Turfgrass Irrigation to Conserve Water, Maintain Turf Quality, and Sustain Soil Health". Throughout his research, he will be also exploring the suitability of smart irrigation controllers to automatically implement irrigation best management practices when recycled water is used for irrigation. Use of smart irrigation controllers has demonstrated significant reductions in the use of water for irrigating landscapes in normal to humid weather conditions, where the primary focus is to prevent the over application of water when there has been a rainfall. On the other hand, research regarding the use of smart irrigation controllers in dry weather conditions like in southern California is lacking, where the objective is rather to apply minimum irrigation water while maintaining an acceptable quality of landscape.  |
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