Session: Enhancing and Facilitating Use of Agricultural System Models in Field Research

Wednesday, November 4, 2009: 9:55 AM-12:45 PM

Convention Center, Room 326, Third Floor

Organizer:

Lajpat Ahuja

9:55 AM

10:00 AM

A Step by Step Procedure for Parameterization, Calibration, Validation, and Application of a System Model in Field Research.
Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; L.R. Ahuja, ARS-USDA; Robert Malone, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.; Timothy Richard Green, USDA-ARS

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10:15 AM

Methods to Enhance the Parameterization of Soil, Crop, Meteorological and Management Inputs for Models.
Jerry L. Hatfield, USDA-ARS-NSTL

10:30 AM

Field Sampling for Agricultural Model Input and Parameterization.
Ole Wendroth, Univ. of Kentucky; Gregory Schwab, Univ. of Kentucky; Lloyd Murdock, Univ. of Kentucky; Kurt Kersebaum, ZALF

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10:45 AM

RZWQM Predicted Effects of Soil N Testing with Incorporated Automatic Parameter Optimization Software (PEST) and Weather Input Quality Control.
Robert Malone, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.; Dan Jaynes, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.; Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; Tom Nolan, USGS; Dave Meek, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.

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11:00 AM

Calibration and Sensitivity Analyses of LEACHM Simulation Model.
Jay Jabro, NPARL-USDA-ARS

11:15 AM

Break

11:30 AM

Climate Friendly Farming: Development of Mitigation Practices through Synthesis of Biophysical Modeling and Field Research.
David R. Huggins, USDA-ARS; Claudio Stockle, Washington State Univ.; Armen Kemanian, Texas A&M Univ., Soil & Crop Sciences; Tabitha Brown, Washington State University

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11:45 AM

Models for Non-Modelers? Some Thoughts On Enhancing Crop Model Application in Africa.
Samuel G.K. Adiku, Colorado State Univ.; Lajpat Ahuja, USDA-ARS; G.H. Dunn, USDA-ARS; Luis Garcia, Colorado State Univ.

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12:00 PM

RZWQM2 Simulations of Alternative Cropping Systems with and without Summer Crops in the Central Great Plains.
S.A. Saseendran, USDA-ARS; David C. Nielsen, USDA-ARS, Central Great Plains Res. Center; Liwang Ma, USDA-ARS; Lajpat R. Ahuja, USDA-ARS

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12:15 PM

Mathematical Models for Resource Management.
Jaskarn Mahal, Punjab Agricultural Univ.; Pawan Gupta, Punjab Agricultural Univ.; Balwinder Panesar, SCS Engineers; Rohit Sharma, Punjab Agricultural Univ.

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12:30 PM

Discussion

12:45 PM

Adjourn

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