Joshua Heitman
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)
- Soil & Tillage Research Editorial, SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH (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)
- Estimating soil water retention curves from thermal conductivity measurements: A percolation-based effective-medium approximation, JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (2023)
- Excluding quartz content from the estimation of saturated soil thermal conductivity: Combined use of differential effective medium theory and geometric mean method, AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2023)
- Influence of compost amendment rate and level of compaction on the hydraulic functioning of soils, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (2023)