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  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
  • 2001 - Deere & Company Graduate Fellowship, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Joshua L. Heitman is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Subfields contributing to their work include Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their scholarly output focuses on several key topics such as Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

Joshua L. Heitman has published articles in a variety of frequent venues including the Soil Science Society of America Journal, Vadose Zone Journal, Journal of Hydrology, Agronomy Journal, and Soil and Tillage Research.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The effects of compost incorporation on soil physical properties in urban soils - A concise review (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Soil pore size distribution shaped not only compositions but also networks of the soil microbial community (2021, Applied Soil Ecology)
  • A general form of Archie's model for estimating bulk soil electrical conductivity (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Maximizing soybean yield by understanding planting date, maturity group, and seeding rate interactions in North Carolina (2021, Crop Science)
  • Direct evidence and mechanism for biocrusts-induced improvements in pore structure of dryland soil and the hydrological implications (2023, Journal of Hydrology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Robert Horton, Yongwei Fu, Tusheng Ren, Aziz Amoozegar, and Richard A. McLaughlin.

In their career, Joshua L. Heitman has received awards such as the Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) in 2021 and the Deere & Company Graduate Fellowship from the American Society of Agronomy in 2001.

Best Publications

  • A review of approaches for evapotranspiration partitioning

    D. Kool;D. Kool;N. Agam;N. Lazarovitch;J.L. Heitman

  • The effects of compost incorporation on soil physical properties in urban soils - A concise review.

    Christina N. Kranz;Richard A. McLaughlin;Amy Johnson;Grady Miller

  • Co-occurring anammox, denitrification, and codenitrification in agricultural soils.

    Andrew Long;Joshua Heitman;Craig Tobias;Rebecca Philips

  • Sensible heat measurements indicating depth and magnitude of subsurface soil water evaporation.

    J. L. Heitman;X. Xiao;R. Horton;T. J. Sauer

  • Soil Health Indicators Do Not Differentiate among Agronomic Management Systems in North Carolina Soils

    Wayne R. Roper;Deanna L. Osmond;Joshua L. Heitman;Michael G. Wagger

  • Comparing Four Methods of Measuring Soil Organic Matter in North Carolina Soils

    Wayne R. Roper;Wayne P. Robarge;Deanna L. Osmond;Joshua L. Heitman

  • Sensible Heat Observations Reveal Soil-Water Evaporation Dynamics

    J. L. Heitman;R. Horton;T. J. Sauer;T. M. DeSutter

  • THE GRAPE REMOTE SENSING ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE AND EVAPOTRANSPIRATION EXPERIMENT.

    William P. Kustas;Martha C. Anderson;Joseph G. Alfieri;Kyle Knipper

  • Soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity dynamics following tillage

    D. Kool;B. Tong;Z. Tian;J.L. Heitman

  • Cumulative Soil Water Evaporation as a Function of Depth and Time

    X. Xiao;R. Horton;T. J. Sauer;J. L. Heitman

  • Field Evaluation of the Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Method for Measuring Soil Water Content

    J. L. Heitman;J. M. Basinger;G. J. Kluitenberg;J. M. Ham

  • A Test of Coupled Soil Heat and Water Transfer Prediction under Transient Boundary Temperatures

    J. L. Heitman;R. Horton;T. Ren;I. N. Nassar

  • FIELD CALIBRATION OF THE THETA PROBE FOR DES MOINES LOBE SOILS

    Amy L. Kaleita;Joshua L. Heitman;Sally D. Logsdon

  • Latent heat in soil heat flux measurements

    J. L. Heitman;R. Horton;T. J. Sauer;T. S. Ren

  • Measuring dynamic changes of soil porosity during compaction

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  • Complete vineyard floor cover crops favorably limit grapevine vegetative growth

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  • Measuring Subsurface Soil‐Water Evaporation with an Improved Heat‐Pulse Probe

    Zhang Xiao;Sen Lu;Joshua Heitman;Robert Horton

  • Soil pore size distribution shaped not only compositions but also networks of the soil microbial community

    Qing Xia;Ningguo Zheng;Joshua L. Heitman;Wei Shi

  • A general form of Archie’s model for estimating bulk soil electrical conductivity

    Yongwei Fu;Robert Horton;Tusheng Ren;J.L. Heitman

  • Approaches for estimating soil water retention curves at various bulk densities with the extended van Genuchten model

    Zhengchao Tian;Weida Gao;Dilia Kool;Tusheng Ren

  • Energy and evapotranspiration partitioning in a desert vineyard

    D. Kool;D. Kool;W.P. Kustas;A. Ben-Gal;N. Lazarovitch

  • Quantifying nonisothermal subsurface soil water evaporation

    Pukhraj Deol;Josh Heitman;Aziz Amoozegar;Tusheng Ren

  • Improved thermo-time domain reflectometry method for continuous in-situ determination of soil bulk density

    Zhengchao Tian;Yili Lu;Tusheng Ren;Robert Horton

  • Spatial and diurnal below canopy evaporation in a desert vineyard: Measurements and modeling

    D. Kool;D. Kool;A. Ben-Gal;N. Agam;J. Šimůnek

  • NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Sensible Heat Observations Reveal Soil-Water Evaporation Dynamics

    J. L. Heitman;R. Horton;T. M. Desutter

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Horton
Robert Horton Iowa State University
Tusheng Ren
Tusheng Ren China Agricultural University
Alon Ben-Gal
Alon Ben-Gal Agricultural Research Organization
Tyson Ochsner
Tyson Ochsner Oklahoma State University
Gerald N. Flerchinger
Gerald N. Flerchinger Agricultural Research Service
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
Jay M. Ham
Jay M. Ham Colorado State University
David L. Jordan
David L. Jordan North Carolina State University

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