On-going Research Projects

1). Water demand and the value of water in the US Southeast, with Dr. Tatiana Borisova, USDA-ERS

2). Economics of managed aquifer recharge in the Mississippi Embayment: An integration of MODFLOW with an economic model, with Dr. Kent Kovacs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Dr. Helen E. Dahlke, UC Davis, Dr. Ahmed Ali, Irrigation and Hydraulics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt and former postdoc at UC Davis, and Dr. Steve Wallander, USDA-ERS

3). The economic impacts of salinity intrusion on coastal rice production: a comprehensive micro-macro analysis, with Dr. Alvaro Durand-Morat, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Dr. Hyunwoo Kang, Oregon State University, Dr. Bradford Mills and Dr. Venkataramana Sridhar, Virginia Tech, and Dr. Kieu Le, Field to Market

4). Regional supply elasticities using remote-sensing data and implications of Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) on agricultural production in California, with Dr. Bruce Babcock and Dr. Mehdi Nemati, University of California, Riverside

5). An integrated tillage choice dynamics and biophysical modeling framework - impacts of periodic tillage on water quality in Upper Mississippi River Basin, with Dr. Lyubov A. Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State, Dr. Jaehak Jeong, Texas A&M, and Dr. Philip W. Gassman, Iowa State University

6). Modeling field level tillage dynamics with cropland data layer (CDL): an application of Entropy approach to evaluate the effect of shifting production toward corn monoculture on farmer’s tillage choices in Iowa, with Dr. Lyubov A. Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State, and Dr. Silvia Secchi, University of Iowa

7). Evaluating the economic potential for soil organic carbon sequestration: an integrated modeling approach, with Dr. Kieu Le, Field to Market, Dr. Olaf David, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Dr. Natalja Čerkasova, and Dr. Jeff Arnold, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Mr. Frank Geter, USDA-NRCS, and Mr. Jack Carlson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.