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Education :
Ph.D., 2008, Univ. of Georgia, Athens (Biological & Agricultural
Engineering)
B.S., 1997, Univ. Nacional de Colombia-Univ. del Valle, Cali (Agricultural
Engineering)
Professional Experience:
2009 - present : Assistant Professor, Auburn University
1998-2004 : Research Assistant, Colombian Sugarcane Research Center
Professional Activities:
Appointment: 75% Extension, 25% Research
My Extension program focuses on developing and conducting winter
and summer training programs for Alabama grain producers. Emphasis will be placed
on assessing the need to improve productivity and profitability. Program efforts
will include conducting on-farm demonstrations of site-specific management strategies
for corn and wheat production. The information derived from on-farm trials and
research will be disseminated through short courses, workshops, county production
meetings, field days, Extension publications, news articles, Web-based decision
support tools, electronic mail, farm consultation and telephone contact.
Extension’s Precision Agriculture program will focus on
conducting educational programs to raise awareness about the precision agriculture
technologies available to support site specific management. On-farm demonstrations
will focus on the use of several technologies to optimize farm operations as
well as management. In addition, on-farm demonstrations will be used to show
growers how management programs can be adjusted based on data gathered from various
precision agriculture technologies.
My research program focuses on the
following:
- Evaluation of different management strategies for
improving grain production. Along with field research
trials, crop simulation models will be used as additional
research tools to assess the risk of a particular
management decision under several soil and weather
scenarios.
- Use of precision agriculture tools to improve agricultural
management toward production improvement.
- Modeling of crop growth and yield for different
cropping systems under various environmental conditions.
- Use of remote sensing technology for improved agriculture
management. Emphasis will be placed on “on-the-go
sensors” for variable rate application of inputs,
hyperspectral remote sensing and its application
in agriculture, and evaluation of new methods for
remote assessment of crop growth and yield.
- Study of the impact of weather and climate on agriculture.
- Development of decision support tools for agriculture.
| Areas of Specialty |
- Precision Agriculture
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Crop Modeling and Simulation
- Geostatistics
- Remote Sensing
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Membership in Professional
Societies: |
- American Society of Agricultural
and Biological Engineers
- American Society of Agronomy
- Crop Science Society of America
- Soil Science Society of America
Note to Potential Graduate Students:
Two graduate assistantships are available for the master’s program.
The first project will be related to the identification of areas at risk for
aflatoxin contamination in corn. The goal of this project is to develop a methodology
for site-specific management of fields at risk for contamination.
The second project will focus on the assessment of the impact of La Niña/El
Niño on corn and wheat Management. Emphasis will be placed on agroclimatology
and crop growth modeling.
These two projects will expose you to field and greenhouse work. Travel to different
farms and research stations in Alabama may be necessary. In addition, you will
have the opportunity to present your research results at different professional
and farmers meetings. And, most importantly, you will work hard and publish your
research.
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