Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture: Measurement and Modelling

Author Biography

I earned a PhD degree from University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, Austria in a collaborative program with University of California Davis. I was a postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois, a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University, an Assistant and now an Associate Professor of Environmental Soil Physics at the New Mexico State University. I am a recipient of Patricia Christmore Faculty Teaching award, NACTA Teaching award of Merit, and RGBI integrated program team award. I am a member of many professional societies including AAAS, AGU, SSSA, ASABE, etc. I have served as an Associate Editor and Editorial board member of Soil Science Society America Journal and as an Executive Secretary of Indian Association of Hydrologists. Currently I serve on the regional coordination committee for trickle irrigation, member of PES curriculum committee, graduate studies committee, Howard Hughes scholar program, as a mentor to AMP undergrad student, and as an advisor to more than ten undergraduate students. I served as chair for five students graduated with a master's degree from the NMSU. Currently, I serve as a chair for four graduate students and as a committee member for six others. I teach environmental soil physics, advanced soil physics and introductory soils (on-occasion). My research interests are related mostly to soil physics, spatial and temporal variability of soil properties, and water and solute transport under different land use and management systems at multiple scales. I have received over $2 M as research funding from various agencies including a major grant during 2008 from USDA-CSREES ($650K) and DOE ($800K). I have co-authored a text-book "Principles of Soil Physics", published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, several research reports, proceeding papers and book chapters.