Josh Heitman
William Neal Reynolds Professor & Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor
Soil Physics & Hydrology
Faculty
Williams Hall 3410
https://heitman.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
https://casm.cals.ncsu.edu
Soil is the interface between biological, atmospheric, and geologic systems. Movement of heat, water, and chemical in soil impacts the terrestrial environment at nearly every scale. Research efforts focus on understanding principles of this movement through laboratory and field experiments, development of new measurement techniques, and numerical modeling.
Major research goals are to detail soil water and energy budgets for evaporation and evapotranspiration, improve efficiency and services of agricultural, urban, and marginal soils, and develop theoretical frameworks and measurement systems to quantify soil processes.
Publications
- <i>Vadose Zone Journal</i> Special Section: Soil physics in agricultural production, water resources, and waste management, VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL (2024)
- Biocrusts Critical Regulation of Soil Water Vapor Transport (Diffusion, Sorption, and Late-Stage Evaporation) in Drylands, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH (2024)
- Laboratory observations for examining estimates of soil dry surface layer thickness with parsimonious models, HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL (2024)
- Soil & Tillage Research Editorial, SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH (2024)
- Water use and radiation balance of miscanthus and corn on marginal land in the coastal plain region of North Carolina, GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY (2024)
- Wheat cover crop has minimal effect on physical soil properties in the North Carolina Piedmont, AGRONOMY JOURNAL (2024)
- Wildflowers and compost amendment can improve infiltration in soils impacted by construction, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (2024)
- An Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Model Based on the Capillary Bundle Model, the Brooks-Corey Model and Waxman-Smits Model, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH (2023)
- Analysis of Water Volume Required to Reach Steady Flow in the Constant Head Well Permeameter Method, HYDROLOGY (2023)
- Direct evidence and mechanism for biocrusts-induced improvements in pore structure of dryland soil and the hydrological implications, JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2023)