Sustainable Water Systems

Sangu

♦ Sangu Angadi | Professor | angadis@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Stress Physiology of Crops, Sustainable Crop Diversification, Alternative Cropping Systems, Ecosystem Services, Deficit Irrigation, Crop Simulation Modeling

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Security
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Bloomquist

♦ Daren Bloomquist | College Assistant Professor | dbloomqu@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Facilities management,
Sustainability in
hospitality operations

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Sustainable Water Systems
Boeing

♦ Wiebke Boeing | Professor | wboeing@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Aquatic Ecology (every trophic level from bacteria to fish); algae cultivation

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
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♦ Colleen Caldwell |Unit Leader

Expertise:
Applied ecology of large mammal, game bird, and fisheries populations

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Kenneth Carroll

♦ 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
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
Duff

♦ Glenn Duff | Professor and Superintendent of Clayton Livestock Research Center | glennd@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Feedlot nutrition and Cattle Health & Management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Sam Fernald | Dr.

Expertise:
Water, Water Sheds
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Sustainable Water Systems
Flynn

♦ 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:

  • Soil Health
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
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♦ Jennifer Frey | Professor

Expertise:
Wildlife damage management, wildlife habitat relations, climate, water
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Wildlife damage management
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ John R. Garlisch | Extension Agriculture Agent

Expertise:

Horticulture Production - Fruits, Vegetables, Insects, Plant diseases and disorders On -Farm Food Safety, Small Farm Business Planning, Economics, Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Geli

♦ 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
Ghimire

♦ Rajan Ghimire | Assistant Professor | rghimire@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil organic matter pools and dynamics, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration, soil health, sustainable crop production practices

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Giese

♦ Gill Giese| Extension Viticulture Specialist | ggiese@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Viticulture, enology, grape and wine compositional quality, cover crops and soil health, nematodes and other biotic factors that impact grape and wine compositional quality, water use and irrigation efficiency

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Kulbhushan Grover | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Sustainable Crop Production, Alternative Crops, Crop Rotation, Cover Crops
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Robert Hagevoort | Extension Dairy Specialist

Expertise:
Dairy Management & Nutrition
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Workforce Development & Training
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Niall Hanan

♦ Niall Hanan | Professor and Extension Specialist | nhanan@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Range ecology; remote sensing; ecosystem modeling; global change

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Big Data
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Heerema

♦ Richard Heerema | Extension Pecan Specialist | rjheerem@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Horticulture, tree fruit and nut production systems, environmental stress physiology of orchard trees, irrigation and water relations of pecan, pecan orchard light management, flowering and alternate bearing of pecan and pistachio.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ 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
Lauriault

♦ 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
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♦ 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
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♦ Erik A. Lehnhoff | Assistant Professor of Weed Ecology and Management

Expertise:

Agroecology; Integrated Weed Management; Weed Ecology; Invasive Weeds

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ 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
Mitchell

♦ Pete Mitchell | College Assistant Professor | petemit@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Leadership, Food & Beverage Management, Sanitation & Kitchen Safety, Facilities Management, Hospitality Marketing, Hospitality Accounting

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Shannon Norris | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural Communications, Agricultural Literacy, Science Communication, National Defense, Food Security, Agricultural Education and Youth Development
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ 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;
Luis Sabillon

♦ Luis Sabillon Galeas | Assistant Professor of Microbial Food Safety

Expertise:

Food Safety Microbiology, Molds and Mycotoxins, Post-harvest storage and processing of cereal grains, Processing of wheat-based products

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Bioprocessing
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Sallenave

♦ Rossana Sallenave| Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources | rsallena@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Aquatic Ecology, Watershed stewardship, Water quality, Aquatic Toxicology, Aquaponics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Aquaponics as a sustainable food production system
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
  • Sustainable Water Systems
sanogo

♦ Soum Sanogo | Professor | ssanogo@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil borne Diseases, Epidemiology, Disease Management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Scholljegerdes

♦ Eric Scholljegerdes | Associate Professor | ejs@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Ruminant nutrition, Animal physiology, Animal health, Animal management, Range management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Shutte

♦ Brian Schutte | Associate Professor | bschutte@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Security
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Soil Health
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Shukla

♦ Manoj K 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
Thompson

♦ Marisa Y. Thompson, PhD | NMSU Extension Horticulture Specialist | risi@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Urban horticulture, landscape ornamentals, xeriscaping, backyard fruits and vegetables, urban trees/forests, mitigating effects of climate change through sustainable planting, water-wise gardening, and supporting wildlife habitats

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Torrell

♦ 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
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♦ Marcy Ward | Extension Livestock Specialist Expertise:
Beef cattle nutrition, health, reproduction, and management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Pei Xu | Professor

Expertise:
Water treatment, water quality
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ 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