Extension Specialists

Andales, Allan

Irrigation/Water Science

• Irrigation Water Management

• Irrigation Scheduling

• Irrigation Systems

• Crop Water Requirements

• Field Hydrology

• Crop Modeling

Bauder, Troy

Extension Water Quality Specialist

• Develop, demonstrate and evaluate nutrient, irrigation and pesticide best management practices (BMPs) for water quality protection in irrigated agriculture.

• Demonstration and evaluation of limited irrigation management in corn and sugar beets.

• Develop and maintain the Agricultural Water Conservation Clearinghouse (http://www.agwaterconservation.colostate.edu/).

• Demonstration and evaluation of conservation tillage in furrow irrigated systems (http://www.conservationtillage.colostate.edu).

• Assessment of producer adoption of nutrient, irrigation and pesticide best management practices (BMPs) for water quality protection in irrigated agriculture.

• Develop and conduct outreach programs to help rural residents protect their private well water supplies (http://region8water.colostate.edu/drinking_water.shtml).

Brummer, Joe

Forage Science

Ham, Jay

Environmental Physics and Micrometeorology

Ippolito, Jim

Soil Fertility/Soil Health Extension Specialist
• Macro- and micro-nutrient, heavy metal cycling
• Plant nutrient deficiencies and toxicities
• Land application of waste products (biochars, biosolids, manures, etc.)
• Soil health quantification in (degraded) agroecosystems, overgrazed rangelands, mined-lands