Research & Outreach Overview:
Our research group focuses on developing and disseminating scientific knowledge, practical recommendations, and tools for sustainable urban and agricultural water resources management. Our approaches include field research trials, laboratory analyses, and computer modeling, with the goal of identifying opportunities for synergy between research and outreach activities. Our current research themes include water conservation, autonomous landscape irrigation management, soil hydrology, and precision farming. We also work on applications of advanced data acquisition and mining techniques, including remote sensing, GIS and machine learning.
On-going Projects:
PI : Amir Haghverdi | co-PI: Don Merhaut
This project will promote the adoption of science-based plant factor information to develop irrigation best management practices to sustain the desired landscape quality using minimal water.
PIs : Amir Haghverdi and Mehdi Nemati
The goal of this project is to develop and disseminate scientific knowledge, practical recommendations, and tools for efficient golf course irrigation and water management through turfgrass irrigation field research trials and economic analysis.
PI: Haizhou Liu | Co-PI: Amir Haghverdi
This project aims to improve agriculture sustainability and agro-urban ecosystem health by developing an innovative photochemical treatment for recycled wastewater irrigation and evaluating downstream risk using a greenhouse turfgrass irrigation research trial.
PI: Amir Haghverdi |Co-PI: Aliasghar Montazar
This project will enhance agricultural water management in southern California deserts by improving current uniformly applied irrigation by mainstream growers and creating a pathway toward adoption of emerging site-specific variable rate irrigation (VRI) technologies in the future.
Previous Projects:
PI: Mehdi Nemati | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Amir Haghverdi, Etaferahu Takele, Janet Hartin
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Darren Haver, Laosheng Wu
(support provided by NWRI and SCSC will be graduate student fellowship to PhD student Amninder Singh)
(support provided by NWRI and SCSC will be graduate student fellowship to PhD student Amninder Singh)
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Darren Haver, Laosheng Wu, Maggie Reiter, Janet Hartin, Alireza Pourreza
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Donald Merhaut, Janet Hartin, Laurent Ahiablame
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Maggie Reiter, Alireza Pourreza, Janet Hartin
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Laosheng Wu, Janet Hartin
PI: Amir Haghverdi | Co-PIs & Collaborators: Laosheng Wu