Source: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE submitted to NRP
SOIL, WATER, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS TO SUSTAIN AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1020847
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
W-4188
Project Start Date
Oct 1, 2019
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2024
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
(N/A)
RIVERSIDE,CA 92521
Performing Department
Environmental Sciences
Non Technical Summary
The project director will conduct laboratory, field, and computer simulations to improve agricultural water management practices in order to conserve water quality and quantity. Research results will be published in technical journals and used for outreach education to promote sustainable agricultural production and water security in the State.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
0%
Applied
100%
Developmental
0%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1020110206150%
1110210205050%
Knowledge Area
102 - Soil, Plant, Water, Nutrient Relationships; 111 - Conservation and Efficient Use of Water;

Subject Of Investigation
0110 - Soil; 0210 - Water resources;

Field Of Science
2050 - Hydrology; 2061 - Pedology;
Goals / Objectives
1. Connect new understandings of storage and transport of mass and energy to assess environmental change. See attachment. 2. Develop and test new instrumentation, methods and models to improve the mechanistic understanding of soil processes and the quality of soil information and knowledge. See attachment. 3. Integrate scale-appropriate methods to improve decisions related to the management of soil and water resources.
Project Methods
Characterizing the fate and transport of trace organic compoundsoriginating from reclaimed wastewaters, sewage sludge and animal wastes in soil and water through field, laboratory, and numerical experiments; andConducting laboratory and numerical experiments to optimize salinity leaching practices.

Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20

Outputs
Target Audience:Students, State government agencies, municipalities,California growers Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Maintaining websites that help growers manage water and salinity; Develop new website based tool for salinity leaching under different crop, soil and irrigation systems. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Research results were disseminated through peer-refereed international journal publications, outreach presentations, and classroom teaching. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Continue to test and refine the soil salinity leaching website tool to helpgrowers and farm water managers in California.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Developed numerical and data analysis methods for predicting gas, water and solute transport in porous media and in groundwater; Developed a test version of a website-based tool for salinity leaching management; and Evaluated management practices to maximize salinity leaching and minimize nitrate leaching in irrigated croplands.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Long Meng, Tuhai Huang, Jiachun Shi, Jian Chen, Fulin Zhong, Laosheng Wu and Jianming Xu. 2019. Decreasing cadmium uptake of rice (Oryza sativaL.) in the cadmium-contaminated paddy field through different cultivars coupling with appropriate soil amendments. Journal of Soils and Sediments. Vol. 19: 17881798.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Oleg Daugovish, Ben Faber, Etaferahu Takele, Jamie Whiteford, Laosheng Wu. 2020. Cover crop and mulch practices reduce agricultural pollutant loads in stormwater runoff from plastic tunnels. California Agriculture 74(1):16-22. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2020a0004.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Jun Man, Q. Zheng, L. Wu, and L. Zeng. 2020. Adaptive multi-fidelity probabilistic collocation-based Kalman filter for subsurface flow data assimilation: numerical modeling and real- world experiment. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 34:11351146 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-020-01815-y.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Sun, S., H. Wang, B. Fu, H. Zhang, J. Lou, L. Wu, and J. Xu. 2020. Non-bioavailability of extracellular 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid restricts the mineralization of phenanthrene by Rhodococcus sp. WB9. Science of The Total Environment. Vol. 704(2).
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Xinmin Liu, Bo Feng, Rui Tian, Rui Li, Ying Tang, Laosheng Wu, Wuquan Ding, Hang Li. 2020. Electrical double layer interactions between soil colloidal particles: Polarization of water molecule and counterion. Geoderma. Vol. 380. 114693.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Zhang, J., Vrugt, J. A., Shi, X., Lin, G., Wu, L., & Zeng, L. 2020. Improving simulation efficiency of MCMC for inverse modeling of hydrologic systems with a Kalman-inspired proposal distribution. Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025474. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025474