Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
♦ Wiebke Boeing | Professor | wboeing@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Aquatic Ecology (every trophic level from bacteria to fish); algae cultivation
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
♦ Kenneth "KC" Carroll | Associate Professor | kccarr@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
- Big Data
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Soil Health
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Tom Dominguez | Agricultural Agent
Expertise:
Fruit and vegetable production. Range and Animal Science. Small Acreage production. Land Stewardship. Hoop House and Green house production.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Hemp Industrialization
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
- Soil Health
- Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
♦ Robert Flynn | Associate Professor Agronomy and Soils / Superintendent | rflynn@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Soil testing and interpretations, soil health, water management, crop production, management of salinity, and sodicity, crop response to the environment.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
- Soil Health
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Hatim M. E. Geli | Assistant Professor of Landscape Hydrology | hgeli@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Hydrology, Remote sensing, Water resource management, Drought monitoring and impact analysis
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food Security
- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
- Big Data
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
♦ F. Omar Holguin |Associate Professor
Expertise:
Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Proteomics, Secondary Metabolism, Analytical Chemistry, Natural Products Isolation, Mass Spectrometry, Bioactive Molecules, Nutraceuticals
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food Safety
- Hemp Industrialization
- Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
♦ Leonard Lauriault | College Professor - Forage Crop Management Scientist | lmlaur@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Forage Crops
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
♦ Olga Lavrova| Associate Professor
Expertise:
Power electronics; Semiconductor device physics; Solar cell and PV and wind system design; Reliability and lifetime studies; Resiliency of infrastructure; Hardware in the Loop simulation; Power systems: stability and transients; Electric grid modernization and integration with renewables; Novel power electronics and power conversion devices; Electric vehicles (drives), charging power electronics, V2G and charging infrastructure; Pulsed power applications; Machine learning for a variety of areas; Cybersecurity applications.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Smart Grid, Renewable Energy, Solar PV and Wind systems
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Big Data
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Bernd Leinauer | Professor
Expertise:
Turfgrass, Irrigation, Water Quality, Soil, Salinity, Water use efficiency
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Tourism
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Soil Health
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Geno A. Picchioni | Professor
Expertise:
Plant mineral nutrition, salinity stress, ion transport, halophytes, cell membranes, water reuse.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Urban agriculture, experiential learning
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Sustainable Water Systems;
♦ Manoj Shukla | Professor and Director ACES Global Programs
Expertise:
Soil Physics, Agricultural Engineering
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Water Use Efficiency
- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Greg Torell | Assistant Professor | gtorell@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Resource and environmental economics, rangeland economics, water economics, energy economics, and applied microeconomics
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
- Big Data
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
♦ April Ulery | Professor | aulery@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Soil chemistry, metal contamination, salinity, phytoremediation, soil health/soil quality, soil, plant, water analyses
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Soil Health
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
♦ Pei Xu | Professor
Expertise:
Water treatment, water quality
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
- Soil Health
- Sustainable Water Systems
♦ Jinfa Zhang | Professor | jinzhang@nmsu.edu
Expertise:
Cotton breeding, Genetics, Genomics, Development of drought and salt-tolerant cotton cultivars, Development of value-added gladness cotton cultivars
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Sustainable Water Systems
- Produced & Brackish Water Utilization