Speaker：Dr. Tyson Ochsner

Time: 16:00 pm 9/9/2016（Wednesday）

Venue: Lecture hall in Institute of water-saving agriculture in arid areas of China, Northwest A&F University

Speaker Profile

Dr. Ochsner is a native of Chattanooga, Oklahoma. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science at Oklahoma State University  in 1998. He then studied Soil Science and Water Resources at Iowa State University earning a M.S. in 2000 and a Ph.D. in 2003. From 2003 through 2008, he worked as a soil scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The mission of Dr. Ochsner’s soil physics research and teaching program is to help people better understand and appreciate the soil, the soil water balance, and the surface energy balance so that we can more wisely manage and conserve the land and water with which we have been entrusted. He has authored and coauthored over 50 peer reviewed publications, in high impact journals such as "Water Resources Research” and "Soil Science Society of America Journal”. The talk Dr. Ochsner will give today is "Facilitating sustainable management of the Earth's Critical Zone: The role of soil moisture science and technology”.