Conference recap: AGU 2022
The Conservation Irrigation Lab had a fun and productive American Geophysical Union meeting in Chicago 2022!
We presented some amazing work, spent quality time network with past and future collaborators across the U.S., and felt inspired by so many talks and posters. It was also amazing to see our sweet Cali-grown team members experience Chicago Deep Dish and the deep chill of the Windy City :)
Here are some highlights:
Tuesday was a big day! Kelsey, Andy, and Logan all presented visually-arresting posters related to their work on soil health in almonds (Kelsey Fenn), heatwaves in vineyards (Andy Gall), and deficit irrigation in processing tomato (Logan Ebert). They got some wonderful feedback and quite a bit of traffic to their visually compelling posters.
Dr. Mallika Nocco had a big day on Wednesday. In the morning, she co-convened a session titled Ingenuity in a Warming World: Droughts, Floods, and Disturbance with Drs. Sara Goeking (USDA Forest Service), Safeeq Khan (UC Merced), and Aurora Kagawa-Viviani (University of Hawaii). Session participants presented some really intriguing work related to managed aquifer recharge, droughts, and floods! In the evening, Dr. Mallika Nocco gave an invited talk titled “Exploring almond, water, and climate linkages with the Tree Remote sensing of Evapotranspiration eXperiment (T-REX)” in a session called Linkages Across Climate, Hydrologic, and Agricultural Systems, moderated by Drs. Meha Jain (University of Michigan) and Sonali McDermid (NYU).
On Thursdsay, Erica Edwards presented some really exciting work on using Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) and thermal imagery in almonds to assess water stress at the earliest actionable moment—she used the ‘new poster’ format and it was a showstopper. Lots of action at the SIF session!
