Christopher Neale

Christopher Neale

Contact Information

TitleDirector of Research, Daugherty Water for Food Institute
Faculty RankProfessor
Address Innovation Commons Conference Center
2021 Transformation Drive
Suite 3220
Lincoln NE
68588–6203

Nebraska Innovation Campus
Phone
  • office: 402-472-5145
E-mailcneale2@unl.edu
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Selected Publications

Prajapati, V.K., Kaur, R., Prasad, V., Khanna, M., Neale, C.M.U., Hayes, M., Svoboda, M., Swigart, J., Tadesse, T., Sehgal, V. and Rani, A., 2025. Drought declaration potential of seasonally averaged vs. end-of-season composite drought indices: comparative validation over Karnataka state of India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(1), p.43.
Prajapati, V.K., R. Kaur, V. Prasad, M. Khanna, C. Neale, M. Hayes, M. Svoboda, J. Swigart, T. Tadesse, V. Sehgal, and A. Rani, 2025. Drought declaration potential of seasonally averaged vs. end of season - composite drought indices: comparative validation over Karnataka state of India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156, 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-05266-1 Online
Gibson J, Franz TE, Gilmore T, Heeren D, Gates J, Thomas S, Neale CM (2024) Groundwater recharge response to reduced irrigation pumping: Checkbook irrigation and the water savings payment plan. Water, 16(20):2910. Online
Hu, Q.; Zhang, L.; Drahota, J.;Woldt,W.; Varner, D.; Bishop, A.; LaGrange, T.; Neale, C.M.U.; Tang, Z. Combining Multi-View UAV Photogrammetry, Thermal Imaging, and Computer Vision Can Derive Cost-Effective Ecological Indicators for Habitat Assessment. Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 1081. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/rs16061081 Online
Becker, S.M., Franz, T.E., Abimbola, O., Steele, D.D., Flores, J.P., Jia, X., Scherer, T.F., Rudnick, D., Neale, C.M.U. 2022. Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management. Vadose Zone J. 2022;e20228. DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20228 Online
Singh, J., G. Yufeng, D. M. Hereen, E. Walter-Shea, C. M. U. Neale, S. Irmak, and M. S. Maguire. 2022. Unmanned aerial system-based data ferrying over a sensor node station network in maize. Sensors, 22, 1863, doi.org/10.3390/s22051863 Online
Singh, J., G. Yufeng, D. M. Heeren, E. Walter-Shea, C. M. U. Neale, S. Irmak, W. E. Woldt, G. Bai, S. Bhatti, and M. S. Maguire. 2021. Inter-relationships between water depletion and temperature differential in row crop canopies in a sub-humid climate. Agricultural Water Management, 256, doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107061 Online
Bhatti, S., Heeren, D., Barker, J. B., Neale, C., Woldt, W., Maguire, M., Rudnick, D. 2019. Site-specific irrigation management in a sub-humid climate using a spatial evapotranspiration model with satellite and airborne imagery. Agricultural Water Managem Online
Barker, J., Neale, C., Heeren, D., Suyker, A. (2018). Evaluation of a hybrid reflectance-based crop coefficient and energy balance evapotranspiration model for irrigation management. Transactions of the ASABE, 61(2), 533-548.
Campos, I., Neale, C., Arkebauer, T., Suyker, A., Goncalves, I. Z. (2018). Water productivity and crop yield: A simplified remote sensing driven operational approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 501-511.
Barker, J., Franz, T., Heeren, D., Neale, C., Luck, J. (2017). Soil Water Content Monitoring for Irrigation Management: A Geostatistical Analysis. Agricultural water management. 188, 36-49. Online
Campos, I., Neale, C., Suyker, A., Arkebauer, T., Gonçalves, I. V. (2017). Reflectance-based crop coefficient redux: for operational evapotranspiration estimates in the age of high producing hybrid varieties. Agricultural Water Management, 187, 140-153. 2 Online

Background

 

Affiliations

 

Awards

TitleAwarded byYear Awarded
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Fellow American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 2025
Royce J. Tipton Award American Society of Civil Engineers anization 2022

 

SNR Program Areas

  • Environmental Science

Grants

Currently this page only displays grants that were awarded on 1/1/ 2009 to the present. If a grant was awarded prior to 1/1/ 2009 and is still active, it will not be displayed on this page.

Grant TitleUSAID MENAdrought
Starting Date06/03/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2021
Funding Level$1,222,118.00
Funding AgencyIWMI

 

Grant TitleMENA Regional Drought Management
Starting Date01/01/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/31/2017
Funding Level$1,025,440.00
Funding AgencyICBA

 

Advising

Graduate Programs

Master of Applied Science

Master of Science in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Hydrological Sciences

Doctorate of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Hydrological Sciences