Identify improvements in resource use efficiencies and environmental performance of key crops produced via alternative water and soil management strategies under rainfed and irrigated conditions; Determine crop physiological responses of biochar additions to soil using non -destructive optical and thermal sensing at multiple cales throughout > 20 agricultural crop development cycles; Develop/apply crop ecophysiological, hydrological, and biogeochemical models to evaluate innovative soil and water management strategies in relation to the plant - soil -atmosphere system; Evaluate and set priorities among strategies to increase water resilience through structured decision making workshops with local communities, producer groups and water management agencies. More

Main outputs

• Herrera-Ramirez, D., Sierra, C., Römermann, C., Muhr, J., Trumbore, S. E., Silvério, D., Brando, P. M., Hartmann, H. (2021). Starch and lipid storage strategies in tropical trees relate to growth and mortality. New Phytologist, 230(1), 139-154.

• Fisher, J.B. and 58 co-authors including Johnson and Morillas (2020), ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration from the International Space Station, Water Resources Research, 56(4), e2019WR026058,

• Sobejano-Paz, V., T.N. Mikkelsen, A. Baum, X. Mo, S. Liu, C. J. Köppl, M.S. Johnson, L. Gulyas, and M. García (2020). Hyperspectral and Thermal Sensing of Stomatal Conductance, Transpiration, and Photosynthesis for Soybean and Maize under Drought, Remote Sensing, 12(19), 3182.

• Wang, S., García, M., Ibrom, A., & Bauer-Gottwein, P. (2020). Temporal interpolation of land surface fluxes derived from remote sensing – results with an unmanned aerial system. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(7), 3643–3661.

• Fischer, B.M.C., Frentress, J., Manzoni, S., Cousins, S.A.O., Hugelius, G., Greger, M., Smittenberg, R.H., Lyon, S.W. (2019). Mojito, anyone? An exploration of low-tech plant water extraction methods for isotopic analysis using locally-sourced materials. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 150.

• Morillas, L., S. V. Hund, and M. S. Johnson (2019). Water use dynamics in double cropping of rainfed upland rice and irrigated melons produced under drought-prone tropical conditions, Water Resources Research, 55(5), 4110-4127,.

• Wang, S., Garcia, M., Bauer-Gottwein, P., Jakobsen, J., Zarco-Tejada, P.J., Bandini, F., Sobejano Paz, V., Ibrom, A. (2019). High spatial resolution monitoring land surface energy, water and CO2 fluxes from an Unmanned Aerial System, Remote Sensing of Environment, 229, 14-31.

• Fischer, B.M.C., S. Manzoni, L. Morillas, M. Garcia, M.S. Johnson, S.W. Lyon (2018). Improving agricultural water use efficiency with biochar - A synthesis of biochar effects on water storage and fluxes across scales, Science of the Total Environment, 657:853-862.

• Wang S., M Garcia, A Ibrom, J Jakobsen, C Josef Köppl, K Mallick, P. Bauer-Gottwein. 2018. Mapping Root-Zone Soil Moisture Using a Temperature–Vegetation Triangle Approach with an Unmanned Aerial System: Incorporating Surface Roughness from Structure from Motion. Remote Sensing 10 (12), 1978.