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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Todd H. Skaggs is affiliated with the US Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, Plant Science, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on a range of topics related to soil and water management. These include:

  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Skaggs has contributed multiple papers to various peer-reviewed journals. Some of their recent publications are:

  • "Dynamic Management Zones for Irrigation Scheduling," 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • "Flux variance similarity-based partitioning of evapotranspiration over a rainfed alfalfa field using high frequency eddy covariance data," 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Morphological, physiological, biochemical, and transcriptome studies reveal the importance of transporters and stress signaling pathways during salinity stress in Prunus," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Relationships among soil moisture at various depths under diverse climate, land cover and soil texture," 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Ensemble HYDRUS-2D modeling to improve apparent electrical conductivity sensing of soil salinity under drip irrigation," 2022, Agricultural Water Management

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Water Resources Research
  • Soil Systems
  • Irrigation Science

In collaboration, Todd H. Skaggs works repeatedly with several co-authors, including:

  • Elia Scudiero
  • Ray G. Anderson
  • Jorge Ferreira
  • Devinder Sandhu
  • Donald L. Suarez

Among the recognitions received, Skaggs was named a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Comparison of HYDRUS-2D simulations of drip irrigation with experimental observations

    T. H. Skaggs;T. J. Trout;J. Simunek;P. J. Shouse

  • Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity

    Jan W. Hopmans;A.S. Qureshi;I. Kisekka;R. Munns;R. Munns

  • Spatio-temporal evolution and time-stable characteristics of soil moisture within remote sensing footprints with varying soil, slope, and vegetation

    B.P Mohanty;T.H Skaggs

  • Recovering the release history of a groundwater contaminant

    Todd H. Skaggs;Z. J. Kabala

  • Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

    Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy;Tarek S. El-Madany;Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Pierre Gentine

  • Macroscopic approaches to root water uptake as a function of water and salinity stress

    Todd H. Skaggs;Martinus Th. van Genuchten;Peter J. Shouse;James A. Poss

  • Regional-scale soil salinity assessment using Landsat ETM + canopy reflectance

    Elia Scudiero;Todd H. Skaggs;Dennis L. Corwin

  • Analytical Solutions for Solute Transport in Three-Dimensional Semi-infinite Porous Media

    Feike J. Leij;Todd H. Skaggs;Martinus Th. Van Genuchten

  • Frequency Dependence of the Complex Permittivity and Its Impact on Dielectric Sensor Calibration in Soils

    T. J. Kelleners;D. A. Robinson;P. J. Shouse;J. E. Ayars

  • Recovering the History of a Groundwater Contaminant Plume: Method of Quasi‐Reversibility

    Todd H. Skaggs;Z. J. Kabala

  • A root zone modelling approach to estimating groundwater recharge from irrigated areas

    J. Jiménez-Martínez;J. Jiménez-Martínez;T.H. Skaggs;M.Th. van Genuchten;L. Candela

  • Estimating Particle-Size Distribution from Limited Soil Texture Data

    T. H. Skaggs;L. M. Arya;P. J. Shouse;B. P. Mohanty

  • Measured and simulated soil wetting patterns under porous clay pipe sub-surface irrigation.

    A.A. Siyal;Todd H. Skaggs

  • Regional scale soil salinity evaluation using Landsat 7, western San Joaquin Valley, California, USA

    Elia Scudiero;Todd H. Skaggs;Dennis L. Corwin

  • Drip irrigation water distribution patterns: effects of emitter rate, pulsing, and antecedent water.

    Todd H. Skaggs;Thomas J. Trout;Youri Rothfuss

  • Calibration of Capacitance Probe Sensors using Electric Circuit Theory

    T. J. Kelleners;R. W. O. Soppe;D. A. Robinson;M. G. Schaap

  • Analysis and mapping of field-scale soil moisture variability using high-resolution, ground-based data during the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

    B. P. Mohanty;T. H. Skaggs;J. S. Famiglietti

  • Evolution of soil moisture spatial structure in a mixed vegetation pixel during the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

    B. P. Mohanty;J. S. Famiglietti;T. H. Skaggs

  • Analytical solution for one-dimensional advection-dispersion transport equation with distance-dependent coefficients

    J.S. Pérez Guerrero;T.H. Skaggs

  • Calibration of capacitance probe sensors in a saline silty clay soil

    T. J. Kelleners;R. W. O. Soppe;J. E. Ayars;T. H. Skaggs

  • Monitoring and validating spatially and temporally continuous daily evaporation and transpiration at river basin scale

    Lisheng Song;Lisheng Song;Shaomin Liu;William P. Kustas;Hector Nieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis L. Corwin
Dennis L. Corwin Agricultural Research Service
Peter J. Shouse
Peter J. Shouse Agricultural Research Service
M. Th. van Genuchten
M. Th. van Genuchten Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
James E. Ayars
James E. Ayars Agricultural Research Service
Donald L. Suarez
Donald L. Suarez Agricultural Research Service
Binayak P. Mohanty
Binayak P. Mohanty Texas A&M University
Feike J. Leij
Feike J. Leij California State University, Long Beach
David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Scott A. Bradford
Scott A. Bradford Agricultural Research Service
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service

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