Binayak Mohanty, a distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, had a vision of making satellite soil moisture data equally accessible to all public stakeholders for improving their economic and social well-being. Sehgal, a PhD student with him at the time and now an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, realized that SMAP data may have untapped potential to monitor drought. “We had a lot of satellite soil moisture data, but the practical application of that data was missing,” Sehgal said. Sehgal teamed up with Nandita Gaur—an assistant professor of soil physics at the University of Georgia—to help make sense of the data.
Crop and Soil Sciences students received several honors/awards at the 2024 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas.
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