Yulissa defends dissertation
Dr. Yulissa Perez-Rojas successfully defends her dissertation on scale integration challenges in carbon predictions, addressing systemati...
Jennifer defended dissertation
Dr. Jennifer Alvarez-Sagrero defended her dissertation on soil health and physical protection of organic matter under long-term conservat...
PhD Hooding Ceremony
Celebrating Jennifer Perez-Rojas and Yulissa Alvarez-Sagrero as they participate in PhD hooding cermony, an important milestone. Congratu...
Let’s BRAAG about Jalynn
NASA ACRES blog--Let’s BRAAG about Jalynn Greer, a Kentucky State University Scholar who is Bridging a Career Path in Nursing and Agricul...
Kennedy's BRAAG experience
NASA ACRES blog--Learning by Doing, Basia Skudrzyk interviewed a Howard Scholar, Kennedy Williams' about he journey with the BRAAG program
On being a good scientist and labmate
Sixty small steps to become awesome scientists and lab mates--be open to feedback, show appreciation, stay organized, ...
Linking a Zotero folder with Overleaf
Steps for dynamic linking of zotero folder with Overleaf manuscript.
Touyee Thao earned PhD
Celebrating Dr. Touyee Thao's remarkable PhD completion and his upcoming role as a USDA Research Scientist. Proud of his achievements and...
Hooding of Toshi & Manisha
Dr. Toshiyuki Bandai and Dr. Manisha Dolui successfully graduate with PhDs and move on to postdoctoral positions. Congratulations to both...
Toshi defended his dissertation.
Today, Toshiyuki Bandai accomplished a significant milestone by successfully defending his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Toshi, on a...
Manisha defended her dissertation
Manisha Dolui, who was advised by Prof. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe until May 2022, successfuly defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations...
Yulissa wins 3rd place at SSSA
Yulissa Perez-Rojas won 3rd place in the Soil Physics and Hydrology Division for her presentation at the Soil Science Society of America ...
Teamrat selected to be SSSA Fellow
Teamrat A. Ghezzehei was selected to join the 2022 class of Soil Science Society of America Fellows. Fellow is the highest recognition be...
Water Retention Lessons in Desmos
Visual fitting and pedotransfer functions of water retention in Desmos.
Nitrogen Management Grant
New grant from California Dept. of Agriculture, Fertilizer Research & Education Program to test a novel nitrogen management strategy at K...
Our lab at 2021 SSSA Meeting
Toshi and Yulissa represented our lab and presented their research results at the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, in Salk...
New USDA Water Grant
Our lab is part of a new grant for securing a climate resilient water future for agriculture & ecosystems through innovations in measurem...
NSF Training Grant
New training grant on Convergence of Nano-engineered Devices for Environmental and Sustainable Applications
UC-HBCU Grant
Our Boosting Representation of African-Americans in the Geosciences (BRAAG) proposal funded
UFWH Best Poster Award
Touyee Thao's poster at the 2021 Universities Fighting World Hungder Symposium UFWH2021 was selected as one of four best posters.
Soil Hydraulic Functions in Matlab
R functions for fitting and calculating water rtention and hydraulic conductivity functions.
Code snippet for new R script
This code snippet is worth adding to all new R script files.
Soil Hydraulic Functions in R
R functions for fitting and calculating water rtention and hydraulic conductivity functions.
Congrats Luis and Abraham
Today two of our lab undergraduate assistants graduated with B.S. degree in Earth Systems Science.
New Partnesrhip & Research Site
We visited a new study site in Five Points to start a collaborative research with UC ANR, UC Davis and other partners. The following is a...
Congrats Nate and Mat
Today Nate Bogie and Mat Jian participated in the hooding and commencement ceremony. Nate completed the requirements for PhD degree in En...
NSF Grant: New Microscope
UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the a...
Alumnus Stays Local, Starts Green Career
Stephen Ho, a former undergraduate researcher in our lab, is back in town joining the Merced Irrigation District (MID) as a full-time Sup...





















