Evapotranspiration in Agro-Ecosystems and Forestry

Dr. Suat Irmak is a Professor and Department Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Penn State. His has expertise in evapotranspiration, soil and water resources and irrigation engineering, conservation, agricultural water management, impact of climate change on water resources and agricultural and natural resources productivity, and environmental biophysics. He founded and led The Agricultural Water Management Network that enabled adoption of new technologies for conservation of water and energy resources in agriculture. He also founded and led the Water and Energy Flux Measurement, Modeling, and Research Network. He has received numerous regional, national, and international awards for his research accomplishments, including: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) John Deere Gold Medal Award; ASABE Heermann Sprinkler Irrigation Award; ASABE ADS/Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award; ASABE Netafim Award for Advancement in Microirrigation Award; USDA-NIFA National Water and Energy Conservation Award and numerous Teaching Awards

1. Introduction 2. History, Evolution and Importance of Evapotranspiration 3. Penman-Monteith Evapotranspiration Model and Its Applications 4. Forest Evapotranspiration Under a Changing Environment: Processes and Quantifications 5. Estimating Forest Evapotranspiration at Multiple scales using Watershed-scale Hydrologic Models: Challenges and Opportunities 6. Role of evapotranspiration in hydrology with respect to different land/vegetation covers with a special focus on the role ET plays in hydrologic modeling with emphasis on forested ecosystems 7. On-demand Global Actual Evapotranspiration 8. ET-based smart controllers for landscape irrigation. 9. Spatio-temporal attributes of evapotranspiration 10. Climate change vs. evapotranspiration; evapotranspiration in crop modelling; large-scale spatio-temporal evapotranspiration datasets and their applications; co-regulation of evapotranspiration by soil, atmospheric and plant factors 11. Crop Evapotranspiration under Changing Climate 12. A review of Evapotranspiration in Mountain Environments 13. Partitioning of ET for Different Agro-ecosystems