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2021 National Soil Moisture Workshop
Aug
18
The virtual 2021 National Soil Moisture Workshop provided 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 was the 12th consecutive year for the workshop, which is an initiative of the community of researchers that developed the Marena, Oklahoma, In Situ Sensor Testbed (MOISST).
Workshop Goals
- Provide a highly focused venue for presenting cutting-edge research and new concepts related to soil moisture monitoring.
- Highlight new applications of soil moisture data and identify application-oriented research needs.
- Stimulate progress towards realizing the vision of the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network.
The workshop agenda below contains links to video recordings of the full workshop sessions, as well as several individual presentations. For more information, please contact Michael Cosh, Michael.Cosh@usda.gov.
Workshop Agenda
| Time (EDT) | Presentation | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Login and Instructions | |
| 12:00 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. | Session 1: Introduction | |
| Introduction | Michael Cosh, USDA Agricultural Research Service | |
| Keynote: The State of Soil Water Monitoring | Steve Evett, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Conservation and Production Research Laboratory | |
| Upper Missouri River Basin Soil Moisture and Snow Monitoring Network Site Selection Methodology | Cat Wiechmann, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |
| 12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Session 2: Sensors/Networks I | |
| Soil Sensor Transitions and Machine Learning as a Quality Control Strategy; USCRN Research Applications | Ronald D. Leeper, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS) | |
| Soil Moisture Measurements Improve Grassland Productivity Estimates | Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State University | |
| U.S. Climate Reference Network Operational Changes and New Soil Moisture Products | Michael A. Palecki, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Session 3: Sensors/Networks II | |
| Soil Moisture Analysis & Assimilation from the National Water Model V2.0 | Li Xu, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Climate Prediction Center | |
| Testing a Novel Cosmic Ray Neutron Detector in a Field with Highly Variable Soil Texture | Briana Wyatt, Texas A&M University | |
| Using SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals to Improve Simulations of Dust Emissions in the Southwestern U.S. | Pedro A. Jimenez, National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Session 4: Forest Monitoring | |
| An Introduction to Soil Moisture Monitoring Across an Elevational Gradient in the Colorado Rockies | Elise Osenga, Aspen Global Change Institute | |
| Advancing Forest Soil Monitoring and Geospatial Metadata | Megan Schargorodski and Charlie O’Connell, Kentucky Climate Center | |
| Validation of SMAP Soil Moisture at NEON Sites Show Potential for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Forested Areas | Edward Ayres, NEON Battelle | |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of First Day | |
| Time (EDT) | Presentation | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Login and Instructions | |
| 12:00 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. | Session 5: Remote Sensing | |
| SMAP-Based Soil Moisture Derivative Data Products Over Crop-CASMA for Crop Condition Assessment | Zhengwei Yang, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | |
| Field-Scale Surface Soil Moisture Mapping from Airplanes and Satellites | Seungbum Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology | |
| Merging SMAP and CYGNSS Observations to Create a 3 km Soil Moisture Product | Liza Wernicke, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| 12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Session 6: Poster Session | |
| Validation of 3 Microwave Satellites Using 20 In-Situ Soil Moisture Stations and Crop Progress and Condition Reports in the Corn Belt | Kyle DeLong, Iowa State University | |
| Retrieving Heterogeneous Surface Soil Moisture at 100 m across the Globe via Fusion of Remote Sensing and Land Surface Parameters | Jingyi Huang, University of Wisconsin – Madison | |
| Soil Moisture Monitoring for Quantifying Water Budget Estimate of a Forested Watershed Undergoing Longleaf Pine Restoration on South Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain | Devendra M. Amatya, USDA Forest Service | |
| CS616 Temperature Calibration | Richard Cirone, Iowa State University | |
| Remote Monitoring of Soil Moisture | Mohammad H. Nash, USDA Forest Service | |
| Soil Moisture Products from GNSS-R Observations Acquired by Spire Nanosatellites | Dallas Masters, Spire Global | |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Session 7: Modeling | |
| Development of Observation-Based Global Multi-Layer Soil Moisture Products for 1970 to 2016 | Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Validation of NLDAS and GFS Soil Moisture and Applications in National Soil Moisture Network and Drought Monitor | Youlong Xia, IMSG at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, Maryland | |
| Assessing the Accuracy of CMIP6 Soil Moisture Simulations in the Contiguous United States | Steven Quiring, Ohio State University | |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Session 8: Future of Soil Moisture Monitoring | |
| Soil Moisture Monitoring at the U.S. Forest Service | Cynthia West, USDA Forest Service | |
| National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (NCSMMN) | Marina Skumanich, NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System & NCSMMN | |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of Second Day | |
Workshop Organizing Committee
- Trent Ford, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Steven Quiring, The Ohio State University
- Michael Cosh, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD
- Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State University
- Marina Skumanich, NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System
- Todd Caldwell, U.S. Geological Survey
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