Workshop Audience

This workshop provides a unique opportunity for leaders in soil moisture research and development to come together in an interactive workshop format to exchange ideas and develop collaborations. This will be the eighth consecutive year for the workshop, which is an initiative of the community of researchers that has developed from the Marena, Oklahoma, In Situ Sensor Testbed (MOISST). This year’s workshop will be hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and will include a special sessions on the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the National Soil Moisture Network (NSMN), an ongoing initiative to develop a national system that integrates diverse sources of soil moisture observations including federal and state in-situ monitoring networks, satellite remote sensing missions, and numerical models.

Workshop Goals

1. Provide a highly focused venue for presenting cutting-edge research and new concepts related to soil moisture monitoring.
2. Highlight new applications of soil moisture data and identify application-oriented research needs.
3. Stimulate progress towards realizing the vision of the National Soil Moisture Network.

Evaluation

Presentations

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Speaker	Affiliation	Topic / Title
Trenton Franz	University of Nebraska– Lincoln	Introduction
Soil Moisture Stakeholders
John Bolten	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Soil moisture prespectives and advances
Mimi Hughes	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Development of Prototype National Water Model Soil Moisture Products for Drought Monitoring
Dave Hoover	U.S. Department of Agriculture	NRCS resources, SSURGO
Drought
Trent Ford	Southern Illinois University	Developing Integrative Soil Moisture Products to Improve Drought Monitoring in the United States
Christopher Phillips	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Low-Cost Crowdsourcing Sensor Package for Drought-Related Decision Making
Tyson Ochsner	Oklahoma State University	Development and evaluation of soil moisture-based indices for agricultural drought monitoring
Network Discussion
Martha Shulski	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Nebraska Mesonet
Andres Patrignani	Kansas State University	Kansas Mesonet
Ronald Leeper and Michael Palecki	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Standardizing USCRN Soil Moisture Observations for Near-Real Time Applications
Remote Sensing
Rajat Bindlish	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Passive Microwave Products
Christopher Neale	University of Nebraska | Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute	ET and remote sensing
Michael Cosh	U.S. Department of Agriculture	NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperature Radar (NISAR) Mission
Steven Quiring	Ohio State University	Investigating Soil Moisture–Convective Precipitation Feedbacks Using Satellite and In Situ Soil Moisture in the Central United States.
Modeling
Nathan Chaney	Princeton University	Hydroblocks, Polaris
Kaiyu Guan	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	Hyper-resolution daily crop monitoring and sub-daily water demand modeling
Patricia Lawston	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	LSM and irrigation
Yihua Wu	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Simulating Soil Moisture Dynamics in NCEP Numerical Weather/Climate Prediction Models
Applications
Burdette Barker	University of Nebraska– Lincoln	VRI irrigation scheduling
Daran Rudnik	University of Nebraska– Lincoln	UNLTAPS Project
Taro Mieno	University of Nebraska | Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute	Economics of soil moisture probes
Technology and Irrigation
John Heaston	AquaMart	AquaMart, NE water challenges and perspective
Jessica Bollinger	Arable Labs	Arable, Agtech business perspective
Hannah Birge	The Nature Conservancy	Central Nebraska Irrigation Project
Todd Caldwell	University of Texas at Austin	Quantifying Diffuse Recharge to the Edwards Aquifer using Micrometeorology and Remote Sensing
NSMS Planning Workshop
Mike Stobel	USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service	Status of NSMN to this point
Vera Deheza	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	What will NSMN be? Deliverable
Mark Svoboda/Brian Fuchs	UNL - National Drought Mitigation Center	Drought Monitor
Temple Lee and Michael Buban	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Gridded soil moisture product from CRN
Tyson Ochsner	Oklahoma State University	Open Science Framework
Steven Quiring	Ohio State University	National Soil Moisture Map
Trent Ford	Southern Illinois University	GitHub Lessons
Wade Crow	U.S. Deparment of Agriculture	Data Assimilation
Mike Cosh	U.S. Deparment of Agriculture	LPV Network Design
Jordan Clayton	U.S. Deparment of Agriculture	Putting soil moisture on the NWCC Interactive Map: Instructive for the NSMN effort?
Executive Committee		Wrap-Up

Posters

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Speaker	Affiliation	Topic / Title
Stevens Water Student Poster Winners
First Place Pedro Rossini and Adres Patrignani	Kansas State University	Spatio-temporal analysis of Soil Moisture Using a Roving Cosmic-ray Neutron Probe
Second Place Destiny Kerr and Tyson Oschner	Oklahoma State University	Improving Soil Organic Carbon Predictions by Incorporating Long - term Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature Observations
Third Place Justin Gibson and Trenton Franz	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Spatial prediction of near surface soil water retention functions using hydrogeophysics
Other Posters
Michael Palecki and Ronald Leeper	National Center for Environmental Information | Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites	USCRN Soil Moisture Products

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