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Updated Conjunto Tecnológico para la Producción de Calabaza – 2012 P-155

Updated Conjunto Tecnológico para la Producción de Calabaza – 2012 P-155

 

Coffee Harvest in Vietnam Set to Drop From Record on Weather

Coffee Harvest in Vietnam Set to Drop From Record on Weather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image from http://yourviet.blogspot.com/2012/04/singapore-indonesian-roasters-seek.html

Course offerings this semester at UPRM: Ag Hydrology and Agroclimatology (TMAG)

I will be offering the following two courses this semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click links for more information.

TMAG 4038 Agricultural Hydrology

TMAG 5017 Agroclimatology

Recursos de Agua de Puerto Rico

Recursos de Agua de Puerto Rico

A great website with tons of information about Puerto Rico’s water resources

http://recursosaguapuertorico.com/

A new dissertation on Flood Prediction Limitations in Small Watersheds with Mountainous Terrain and High Rainfall Variability

Flood Prediction Limitations in Small Watersheds with Mountainous Terrain and High Rainfall Variability

Ph.D. Dissertation by Alejandra María Rojas González, Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus, July 2012.

Testbed Subwatershed (TBSW) location within the 4 km by 4 km NEXRAD pixel and rain gauge network.

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Fortuño presents agricultural platform

Fortuño presents agricultural platform

Do you think it is a good plan?

Common bean production in  Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico

Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs – hydrogel

Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs

This is potentially interesting, but like most stuff from private companies, they don’t want people to know how it works.  So we have to trust them!  Seems to me to be a dying paradigm.

Irrigation System Evaluation Short Courses

Irrigation System Evaluation Short Courses

Cal Poly Irrigation Training and Research Center classes for Irrigation System Evaluation.

Sponsored by the California Department of Water Resources
Online Portion:  Now Open
Hands-On Class 1: June 18-20, 2012 
Hands-On Class 2: June 20-22, 2012 

Evapotranspiration in Puerto Rico, Parts 1-5 on Youtube

IITF Science Seminar Series
USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF)

Satellite-Based Daily Evapotranpiration Estimation in Puerto Rico
Presented by Eric Harmsen

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Since this presentation was given in June of 2009, we have completed the operational version of the GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance algorithm (GOES-PRWEB). For more information click HERE.