Principles: Historical Evolution of
Evapotranspiration Methods. Water Vapor Flux Models for
Agriculture. Direct Measurement of Transpiration. Design of
Lysimeter for Turfgrass Water Use. Evapotranspiration:
Meteorological. Evaporation Estimations with Neural Networks. Pan
Evaporation Modeling: Indian Agriculture
Evaporation for Cypress and Pine Forests: Florida, USA.
Applications: Evapotranspiration for Pinelands: New Jersey,
USA. Water Management in Citrus. Vegetation Water Demand and Basin
Water Availability in Mexico. Turfgrass Deficit Irrigation
Practices for Water. Evapotranspiration for Saudi Arabia: Modified
Hargreaves Model. ET with Distant Weather Stations: Saudi Arabia.
Actual Evapotranspiration using LANDSAT 5 TM in Thailand. Sensor
Based Irrigation Scheduling. Snow Budgeting and Water.
Water Management in the Tropics: Historical Overview of
Evapotranspiration in Puerto Rico. Reference Evapotranspiration for
Colombia. Water Management for Agronomic Crops in Trinidad. Crop
Water Stress Index for Common Beans. Temperature versus Elevation
Relationships: Evapotranspiration. Generation of Missing Climatic
Data: Puerto Rico. Estimation of Pan Evaporation Coefficients.
Daily Evapotranspiration Estimations using Satellite Remote
Sensing. Vapor Flux Measurement System. Climate Change Impacts on
Agricultural Water Resources: 2090. Evapotranspiration using
Satellite Remote Sensing for the Tropical Climate. Water Management
in Sweet Peppers. Web Based Irrigation Scheduling. Calibration of
Pyranometers and Satellite-Derived Solar Radiation.
Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, was born in India. He received his BSc
degree in agricultural engineering in 1971 from Punjab Agricultural
University, Ludhiana - India; his MSc degree in 1977 and PhD degree
in 1979 from the Ohio State University, Columbus; and his master of
divinity degree in 2001 from Puerto Rico Evangelical Seminary, Hato
Rey, Puerto Rico.
Since 1971, he has worked as Soil Conservation Inspector and
Research Assistant at Haryana Agricultural University and the Ohio
State University; as well as Research Agricultural Engineer at
Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Puerto
Rico-Mayaguez Campus (UPRM). At present, he is a retired professor
of agricultural and biomedical engineering in the College of
Engineering at University of Puerto Rico _ Mayaguez Campus; and
Senior Acquisitions Editor for Agriculture and Biomedical
Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc.
He was the first agricultural engineer to receive the professional
license in agricultural engineering in 1986 from the College of
Engineers & Surveyors of Puerto Rico. On September 16, 2005, he was
proclaimed as "Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for
the 20th Centuryî"by the ASABE _ Puerto Rico Section, for his
pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration,
agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. During his
professional career of 42 years, he has received awards such as
Scientist of the Year, Blue Ribbon Extension Award, Research Paper
Award, Nolan Mitchell Young Extension Worker Award, Agricultural
Engineer of the Year, Citations by Mayors of Juana Diaz and Ponce,
Membership Grand Prize for ASAE Campaign, Felix Castro Rodriguez
Academic Excellence, RashtryaRatan Award and Bharat Excellence
Award and Gold Medal, Domingo Marrero Navarro Prize, Adopted son of
Moca, Irrigation Protagonist of UPRM, Man of Drip Irrigation by
Mayor of Municipalities of Mayaguez/ Caguas/ Ponce and Senate/
Secretary of Agriculture of ELA _ Puerto Rico. He has authored more
than 200 journal articles and textbooks, including Biofluid
Dynamics of Human Body Systems and Management of Drip/Trickle or
Micro Irrigation by Apple Academic Press Inc.
Dr. Eric W. Harmsen received his BSc and MSc degrees in
agricultural engineering from Michigan State University and PhD
degree from the University of Wisconsin. He holds a professional
engineer license. Currently he is currently a professor in the
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University
of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus. He teaches courses in agricultural
hydrology, agroclimatology and irrigation. He was previously
Associate Research Editor of the Journal of Soil and Water
Conservation (2001-2005) as well as a reviewer for many
professional journals. He is a member of the American Society of
Agricultural and Biological Engineers (U.S. and Puerto Rico
Chapters), the Caribbean Food Crop Society, the Puerto Rico Society
of Agricultural Scientists, and Gamma Sigma Delta (Agricultural
Honor Society).
His research interests include measurement and modeling of all
components of the hydrologic cycle; remote sensing of water and
energy balance in the tropics; and agroclimatology. Some of Dr.
Harmsen's water management related publications and presentation
can be found at the following link:
http://pragwater.com/selected-publications-and-presentations/
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