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
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
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
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.
11:15 AM
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
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.
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
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.
12:30 PM
12:45 PM