
USDA-NIFA Water for Agriculture
Research Grant:
2016-67026-25067

NSF EPSCoRNSF EPSCoR
Cooperative Agreement:
#EPS-1101342

Montana NASA EPSCoR
Research Grant:
80NSSC18M0025M
We explore how future climate conditions may alter streamflow conditions, water diversions, and agricultural land, water allocation choices in Ravalli county.
New collaborative research between our group and the Spanish Research Council found that visual evaluations of crop status performed by surveyors can be so accurate that can be used to predict end-of-season yields. In fact, these evaluations are so accurate that can be used to verify the...
Take a visual tour of the team's efforts to integrate water rights data with the hydro-economic model of Montana.
Members of our team have created a new algorithm for modeling evapotranspiration at a 30-meter resolution in United States croplands. A paper describing the algorithm and looking at its results was recently published in Remote Sensing of Environment.
An analysis done by our team on the drivers of the 2017 Northern Plains flash drought has been released in Environmental Research Letters. The study uses satellite observations of evapotranspiration and crop productivity to explain how the drought affected agriculture in the Northern Plains.
See our highlights of the 2019 Water for Agriculture Symposium at the University of Montana.
We are looking for a new postdoc to join our team. Research will be focused on remote sensing of agricultural yields and water use.
An analysis of recent literature that suggest a gradual atmospheric drying in the western United States witih impact on wildfire and with potential effects for agriculture.
This site disseminates results from research on hydrology, climate, and agriculture conducted by an interdisciplinary cluster of scientists at the University of Montana and at Virginia Tech and led by Associate. Prof. Marco Maneta. The overarching goal of this research group is to to understand the impact of climate, policy and agricultural markets on farmer choices, on food security, and on the regional hydrologic cycle in the State of Montana.
We align science, policy and technology to gain insight into the linkage between the hydroclimatic and agricultural systems at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions. Our objective is to develop and apply state-of-the-art decision support tools capable of informing how a range of climate, policy, and market scenarios will affect water availability, agricultural sustainability and rural livelihoods.
Support comes from projects funded by the USDA AFRI Water for Agriculture Challenge Area program and the NASA EPSCoR program.
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