Conference recap: American Geophysical Union meeting 2019
The Conservation Irrigation Lab had a fun and productive American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco on Dec. 9-13, 2019.
We learned so much, networked with past and future collaborators across the U.S., convened a standing-room only session, and presented our work!
Here are some highlights:
On Tuesday, Dr. Mallika Nocco gave an invited talk titled “Feedbacks between irrigation and climate from field to regional scales in the Midwest U.S.” in a session called Mapping and Modeling the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: New Methods and Synergies, moderated by Dr. Jillian Deines of Stanford University.
Wednesday was a big day! Along with Drs. Bonnie McGill (Iowa Geological Survey and 2019 Smith Fellow) and Sam Zipper (University of Kansas), Dr. Nocco convened a session titled “Agrohydrology in a Changing World: From Global Processes to Local Outcomes” (we scientists really like colons in our titles). There was such a diversity of water-related topics in our session including discussions about the cannabis water footprint, irrigation extension/decision making, climate shocks to agriculture, managed aquifer recharge, precision agriculture (featuring WI collaborator, Elizabeth McNamee), and our very own Logan Ebert presenting an interactive electronic poster about his ongoing work mapping evapotranspiration using remotely piloted vehicles.
On Thursdsay, we got to to reconnect with WI collaborators at the Ecohydrology happy hour! It was also really exciting to learn about the amazing work of new CA collaborators, like Dr. Kosana Suvočarev (UC Davis), who found that the less expensive Surface Renewal Method performs just as well as Eddy Covariance for measuring evapotranspiration.
