On April 25, 2014, students from the TMAG 4035 Soil and Water Management course at UPRM visited the farm of Sr. Patiño in the Coloso Valley near Aguada, PR. This post includes some of the pictures that were taken during the field trip.
CLICK HERE to see more pictures from the field trip.
CLICK HERE to see miscallaneous pictures from the TMAG 4035 Soil and Water course.
Solar radiation data can be downloaded for the Northern Caribbean Region. Daily, monthly and annual data are available.
I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click the following links for the course fliers.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like additional information about either course.
Eric Harmsen, Professor
University of Puerto Rico
Dept. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
email: harmsen1000@hotmail.com, eric.harmsen@upr.edu
phone: 787-955-5102
websites: http://pragwater.com , http://bahai.org
Daily reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is now available for Haiti and the Dominican Republic. CLICK HERE to visit the new pragwater page, which provides a link to the daily image data and the method background information. The page also provides information related to the practical application of the results for scheduling irrigation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This research received partial funding from the following sources: NOAA-CREST (grant NA06OAR4810162) and USDA Hatch Project (Hatch-402). Special thanks to Dr. John Mecikalski for providing the solar radiation data, and Alejandra Rojas for providing various GIS maps used in this research. I would like to thank my student, Victor Reventos, who made this possible through his Python programming skills.
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