Davis College Water Center
Faculty
Director
Krishna Jagadish
Email: kjagadish.sv@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7953
Research Interests:
- Professor and Thornton Distinguished Chair
- Director - Texas Coalition for Sustainable Integrated Systems (TeCSIS)
- Coordinator - Texas Alliance for Water Conservation (TAWC)
- Identify forage-based cropping systems responses to drought stress
- Develop an integrated approach to forage production that includes abiotic stress resilience and management strategies
Plant Science
Mark Burow
Email: md.burow@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5717
Research Interests:
- Peanut breeding and molecular genetics aimed at increasing water use efficiency
Benildo de los Reyes
Email: benildo.reyes@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6421
Research Interests:
- Translating regulatory genetic mechanisms learned with rice to understand traits conferring salinity and drought tolerance in cotton
Eric Hequet
Email: eric.hequet@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0621
Research Interests:
- Develop improved testing methods for cotton fiber quality
- Collaboration research with the cotton breeding and biotechnology community to improve properties of cotton fibers
Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella
Email: luis.herrera-estrella@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7247
Research Interests:
- Functional genomics of water deficit, salinity, and nutrient stress responses in crops
Haydee Laza
Email: haydee.laza@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:
- Applied plant physiology and agroecosystem functioning across biological and temporal scales
Scott Longing
Email: scott.longing@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1965
Research Interests:
- Assessment, conservation, and restoration of insect biodiversity in Southern U.S. ecosystems.
Wenxuan Guo
Email: wenxuan.guo@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2266
Research Interests:
- Remote sensing, precision agriculture, and variable rate irrigation of unmanned aerial systems in precision plant phenotyping
Thayne Montague
Email: thayne.montague@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7311
Research Interests:
- Plant physiology and plant-microclimate interactions
- Drought tolerance of woody ornamental plants, grapevines, and other fruit crops
Venugopal Mendu
Email: venugopal.mendu@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6327
Research Interests:
- Identify and characterize genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis and apply to cotton fiber improvement
Glen Ritchie
Email: glen.ritchie@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4325
Research Interests:
- Develop effective and economical water management strategies for crop production in the Southern High Plains
Jyotsna Sharma
Email: jyotsna.sharma@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2637
Research Interests:
- Interaction of biotic and abiotic processes over spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales to explain the dynamics of angiosperm populations and communities
Catherine Simpson
Email: catherine.simpson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5691
Research Interests:
- Water conservation and sustainability in urban systems
- Alternative water sources and their application in urban systems and horticultural crops
Sukhbir Singh
Email: s.singh@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3108
Research Interests:
- Water-efficient vegetable production in urban or small-scale systems
Joey Young
Email: joey.young@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:
- Improved turfgrass management in water-limited conditions
Soil Science
Veronica Acosta-Martinez
Email: veronica.acostamart@ars.usda.gov
Phone: (806) 723-5233
Research Interests:
- Soil health-climate interactions on microbial diversity and functions
Sanjit Deb
Email: sanjit.deb@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1373
Research Interests:
- Soil physics and water resources management in water-limited and irrigated agricultural production systems in natural and managed ecosystems
Matthew Siebecker
Email: matthew.siebecker@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0266
Research Interests:
- Environmental soil and water chemistry concerning soil mineral cycling and heavy metal contamination of flooded soils.
Lindsey Slaughter
Email: lindsey.slaughter@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1345
Research Interests:
- Soil microbial community structure, function, and interactions with other biota affect and as affected by environmental disturbance
Natural Resources & Ecology
Tom Arsuffi
Email: tom.arsuffi@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6918
Research Interests:
- Aquatic and watershed ecology and environmental education
Cade Coldren
Email: cade.coldren@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4976
Research Interests:
- Landscape ecohydrology and modeling
Warren Conway
Email: warren.conway@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6579
Research Interests:
- Ecologically relevant and applied wildlife population, conservation, and management
Robert Cox
Email: robert.cox@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 742-1983
Research Interests:
- Community and restoration ecology, conservation of rare and endemic plant species
- Ecology of invasive species
Phil Gipson
Email: philip.gipson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7747
Research Interests:
- Responses of wildlife populations and plant and animal communities to environmental change and impacts of human activity
Kerry Griffis-Kyle
Email: kerry.griffis-kyle@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2619
Research Interests:
- Human impacts, including climate change, on wetlands and wetland dependent species
- Management strategies to mitigate stressors on sensitive natural resources
Gad Perry
Email: gad.perry@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2339
Research Interests:
- Conservation issues and intensifying impacts of humans on the environment, including urban ecosystems and international development
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Email: carlos.portillo@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7309
Research Interests:
- Land use/land cover dynamics for efficient ecosystem management, wildlife studies, watershed management, urban/rural ecology and climate change adaptation
Carlos Villalobos
Email: c.villalobos@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5248
Research Interests:
- Use and conservation of natural resources applied to the effects of grazing, water usage, and prescribed burning on vegetation and animal response
Animal Science
Darren Henry
Email: darren.henry@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7747
Research Interests:
- Improving cattle performance and efficiency through reduced methane production in water-limited grazing systems.
Agricultural Economics
Michael Farmer
Email: michael.farmer@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6996
Research Interests:
- Long-run surface water and groundwater management and planning
- Zoning practices that accommodate changes in commercial and residential landscapes
Phil Johnson
Email: phil.johnson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0474
Research Interests:
- Economics of agricultural water management and policy issues
Donna Mitchell McCallister
Email: donna.m.mitchell@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-7189
Research Interests:
- Economics of crop water use and food scarcity, water policy, and sustainability of agricultural production
Shaikh Mahfuz Rahman
Email: shaikh.m.rahman@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0505
Research Interests:
- Environmental, energy, development economics, and organization of agricultural supply chains
Chenggang Wang
Email: chenggang.wang@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6238
Research Interests:
- Natural resource economics and rural development, with a focus on land, water, and the behavior of low-income households whose livelihoods depend on those resources
Agriculture Education
Courtney Meyers
Email: courtney.meyers@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4364
Research Interests:
- Impacts of outreach on shaping public perception of water conservation practices.
Rudy Ritz
Email: rudy.ritz@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-4807
Research Interests:
- Development of effective education practices in training teachers and professionals.
Urban Environmental
Eric Bernard
Email: eric.bernard@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3482
Research Interests:
- Coupled modeling for holistic, transdisciplinary, eco-human-water systems planning and design aimed at resiliency
- Cutting edge GIS-GIScience, GeoDesign and LiDAR integration in multi-dimensional solutions spanning scales and system dynamics
Sukhbir Singh
Email: s.singh@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3108
Research Interests:
- Water-efficient vegetable production in urban or small-scale systems
Jason Sowell
Email: jason.sowell@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-6247
Research Interests:
- Analysis of how technology informs design, spatial experience, and landscape performance in urban settings
Joey Young
Email: joey.young@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8457
Research Interests:
- Improved turfgrass management in water-limited conditions
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Mission Statement
The Davis College Water Center serves as a focal point for information exchange pertaining to grant opportunities, meetings, education, research, and policy issues related to water use, conservation, and analysis in rural, urban, and natural environments.
Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
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Address
P.O. Box 42123, Lubbock, Texas 79409-2123, Dean’s Office Location: Goddard Building, Room 108 -
Phone
(806)742-2808