Groundwater Sustainability
Studying aquifer depletion, irrigation capacity decline, and agricultural transition pathways in groundwater-dependent regions.
Postdoctoral Researcher · UW–Madison
Agricultural water, groundwater sustainability, and land-use transitions.
I develop data-driven models and decision-support tools to evaluate agricultural adaptation to water scarcity, with emphasis on groundwater-dependent regions, irrigation technology, crop choice, and land-use transitions.
Research Profile
My research focuses on how agricultural systems adapt to water scarcity, groundwater depletion, and changing economic conditions. I combine agricultural economics, geospatial analysis, hydro-economic modeling, and optimization to evaluate irrigation transitions, crop choice, land-use change, and decision-support strategies.
Irrigation Economics
Evaluating irrigation investments, pumping costs, crop profitability, and water-use decisions under changing hydrologic and economic conditions.
Geospatial Modeling
Integrating GIS, remote sensing, county-level crop data, climate variables, soil data, and groundwater datasets for regional agricultural systems analysis.
Decision-support Tools
Developing applied tools using Excel/VBA, Python, ArcGIS, and GAMS to support irrigation planning and agricultural adaptation analysis.
Featured Projects
Current and recent projects focus on irrigation transitions, bioenergy crop systems, groundwater conservation, and agricultural decision-support tools.
Groundwater · Optimization
High Plains Aquifer Irrigation Transition Model
A hydro-economic model evaluating how irrigated agriculture may transition under groundwater depletion, irrigation capacity constraints, crop profitability, and reinvestment decisions.
View project →Bioenergy · Land Use
Bioenergy Crops and Groundwater Conservation
Research evaluating whether perennial bioenergy crops can support transitions from water-intensive irrigated agriculture while contributing to conservation and resilience goals.
View project →Decision Tool · Irrigation
Irrigation System Upgrade Decision Tool
An Excel/VBA and GIS-based decision-support tool for evaluating irrigation system upgrades using climate, crop yield, soil, slope, energy, and investment data.
View tool →GIS · Data Systems
Agricultural Water and Land-use Data Integration
Spatial data workflows linking crop production, irrigation status, climate, groundwater, soil, and economic variables for agricultural water systems analysis.
View tools & data →Selected Publications
Selected manuscripts, tools, and applied research products related to groundwater sustainability, irrigation transitions, bioenergy crop systems, and agricultural decision support.
Under Review
Opportunities for bioenergy crops to support transitions from irrigated agriculture and conserve the U.S. High Plains Aquifer
Manuscript under review.
Evaluates how bioenergy crops and dryland transitions may support groundwater conservation and long-term agricultural adaptation in the U.S. High Plains Aquifer region.
2024
Economic strategies to synergistically produce bioenergy and optimize aquifer life in the us high plains
AAEA Conference Proceeding
Pilot study to evaluate the most economically viable non-irrigated agricultural systems in the U.S. High Plains Aquifer region.
2021
Issues Facing the Californian Fruit Sector
AAEA, Choices 36(3)
Economic Impacts of Issues in Fruit Farming in California.
Tool
Irrigation System Upgrade Decision Tool
Decision-support tool.
Excel/VBA and GIS-based tool for evaluating irrigation system upgrades using climate, crop yield, soil, slope, energy, and investment data.
Methods, Data, and Technical Expertise
I use quantitative, spatial, and computational methods to connect agricultural data, water-resource constraints, economic decisions, and regional land-use outcomes.
Hydro-economic modeling
Optimization
GIS and remote sensing
ArcGIS
Python
GAMS
Excel/VBA
Crop-water analysis
Groundwater datasets
Net present value analysis
Interested in research collaboration or related work?
I welcome inquiries related to agricultural water management, groundwater sustainability, irrigation economics, land-use transitions, and decision-support modeling.