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Deputy Director Makes Seminar Presentation

2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

L’Oreal Stepney, Deputy Director, Office of Water at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), visited campus on Thursday, February 2, where she met Cajetan Akujuobi, Vice-President of Research and Dean of the Graduate Studies, before giving a seminar presentation. During her talk she gave detailed information on the TCEQ Office of Water covering the ...

Deputy Director Makes Seminar Presentation2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

Water Team Members Participate in and Lead at Workshop

2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

CARC Water Team members Ripendra Awal, Haimanote Bayabil, Almoutaz El-Hassan, Ram Ray, and Ali Fares actively participated in the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus Workshop on Integrated Science, Engineering, and Policy: A Multi Stakeholder Dialogue held in College Station, Texas, January 26-27 2017. One of the objectives of the workshop was to build the roadmap that lays ...

Water Team Members Participate in and Lead at Workshop2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

Water Team Members Publish in Water Journal

2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

Members of the CARC Water Team, Ripendra Awal, Haimanote Bayabil and Ali Fares, published a new peer-reviewed article titled “Analysis of Potential Future Climate and Climate Extremes in the Brazos Headwaters Basin, Texas” in the journal Water. The scientists’ study aimed to determine potential future climates and climate extremes and assess spatial and temporal changes ...

Water Team Members Publish in Water Journal2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

Ray Recognized for One of the Most Read Articles

2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

Research Scientist Ram Ray’s peer reviewed article “Integrating Runoff Generation and Flow Routing in Susquehanna River Basin to Characterize Key Hydrologic Processes Contributing to Maximum Annual Flood Events,” was published in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. This article was one of the 15 most read articles in the journal in December 2016. Ray and his ...

Ray Recognized for One of the Most Read Articles2019-12-15T14:37:24-06:00

CARC Helps Limited Resource Farmers Grow Organic Strawberries

2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

On December 21 and 22 of last month, CARC researcher scientists Peter Ampim, Ripendra Awal, and Almoutaz El Hassen from the Plant and Natural and Environmental Resources Systems and two graduate students Abayomi Adekanmbi and Oluwafemi Paul Olaleye from the College of Engineering installed 60 soil moisture sensors (thirty in the high tunnel and thirty ...

CARC Helps Limited Resource Farmers Grow Organic Strawberries2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

CAHS’ Fares and Awal Recognized for Most Read Article

2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

With 1,946 reads (304 abstract, 974 full text html, and 668 pdf download/reads) in 2016, the article “Irrigation water requirements for seed corn and coffee under potential climate change scenarios,” published by Ali Fares, Ripenda Awal, Samira Fares, Alton Johnson, and Hector Velenzuela, was the most read article last year in the Journal of Water ...

CAHS’ Fares and Awal Recognized for Most Read Article2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

Elementary School Day on “The Hill” Comes to the Farm

2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

On November 18, 2016, PVAMU hosted over 1,400 youth for its Elementary School Day on “The Hill.” A group of about 60 students from Aldine ISD visited the University Farm and were introduced to research and extension activities by CAHS personnel through hands-on activities. Students rotated through the following stations before heading back to the ...

Elementary School Day on “The Hill” Comes to the Farm2019-12-15T14:37:25-06:00

Fares Invited to 2016 Texas Water Roadmap Forum

2019-12-15T14:37:26-06:00

This one-day forum, a facilitated charrette, was organized and sponsored by the Texas Water Development Board and National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN-CE3SAR). The RCN-CE3SAR was the forum facilitator. The forum was hosted by Texas A&M University–San Antonio (A&M-SA) with arrangements coordinated by the Institute ...

Fares Invited to 2016 Texas Water Roadmap Forum2019-12-15T14:37:26-06:00

CAHS Undergraduate Student is National Award Winner

2019-12-15T14:37:26-06:00

Chatera Claybon, a CAHS undergraduate student who is currently enrolled in Fundamentals of Agricultural Engineering taught by Eric Risch, Interim Research Scientist Leader of the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems, won the Irrigation Foundation E3 student award. Claybon is one of fewer than twenty student nation-wide winners of the Irrigation Foundation award. These students will ...

CAHS Undergraduate Student is National Award Winner2019-12-15T14:37:26-06:00

CARC Research Demonstrations Offered to Pathways Symposium Participants

2019-12-15T14:37:27-06:00

Several participants at the Texas A&M University System’s 13th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium, hosted by PVAMU this year, visited the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC) labs and the Research Farm as part of the Academic Demonstrations and Campus Tour program. CARC scientists organized five one-hour themed tours including: 1) Agricultural Remote Sensing Technologies, 2) ...

CARC Research Demonstrations Offered to Pathways Symposium Participants2019-12-15T14:37:27-06:00