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European Territorial Cooperation Programmes (ETCP), GREECE-ITALY 2007-2013
Efficient Irrigation Management Tools for Agricultural Cultivations and Urban Landscapes
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LP-TEIEP | P2-AEPDE | P3-INEA | P4-ISPA/CNR | P5-ROP | P6-ROEDM
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expertise lies in the field of Land Use
Planning and Landscape Ecology.
Dr. Richard L. Snyder
is an
Extension
Biometeorologist
at
University of California, Davis from
1980 till present. Dr. Snyder has a
M.S. and a Ph.D. in Agricultural
Climatology
from
Iowa
State
University. His research and teaching
activities
include:
estimating
evapotranspiration, freeze protection
of
crops,
irrigation
scheduling
(agriculture and urban), and water
resources planning. Dr. Snyder’s
Major
Accomplishments
include:
principal Investigator on the California
Irrigation Management Information
System (CIMIS) project, co-author of
the SIMETAW and CUP+ programs,
co-author of the UN_FAO book “Frost
Protection: fundamentals, practice,
and economics”, and authored or co-
authored 135 refereed papers.
The work of Dr. Snyder can be
accessed
from
the
following
websites:
and
Dr. Bernhard Leinauer
works as
Professor and Turfgrass Extension
Specialist at the Department of
Extension Plant Sciences of New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces,
New Mexico. His research interests,
include irrigation with recycled and/or
high saline water and subsequent
effects on plant and soil quality,
implementation of technologies for
monitoring water and salinity in soils
and associated stress in plants,
mitigation of water repellency in root
zones, screening for low water use,
cold and salt tolerant grass species
and cultivars and efficient use of
irrigation water on turf (e.g. alternative
irrigation
systems,
irrigation
scheduling, and modification of
turfgrass root zones). He is co-author
in more than 40 relevant peer
reviewed articles and in more than 100
guides, reports, and abstracts in non-
reviewed journals, trade journals,
proceedings, and various Extension
outlets. His is a greatly requested
speaker regarding irrigation of
turfgrass and up to now he has given
more than 40 presentations at
international scientific and industry
meetings.
Dr. Bochtis Dionysios
works as
Associate Professor in the Operations
Management group of the Department
of Engineering, at Aarhus University,
Denmark. His primary research is
engineering management focused on
bio-production including areas of field
robots, supply chain management for
agrifood and bio-energy bio-recourses,
and
relative
ICT,
automation
technologies, and Decision Support
Systems. He is the author of about
200 articles in peer reviewed journals
and conference proceedings including
a number of key-note speeches. He is
the former presented of CIOSTA
(Commission
Internationale
de
l'Organisation Scientifique du Travail
en Agriculture) and vice-chair of the
Section V (Systems management) of
CIGR (International commission of bio-
systems engineers).
Mr. Sean Gaule
is currently president
of Cedia – the Confederation of
European
Associations
of
Agronomists, and a former senior
official in the Department of
Agriculture, Food and the Marine in
Ireland. He has many years
experience
in
agricultural
development, to include land Policy,
research, production and processing,
marketing and rural development. He
has an honors degree in Agricultural
Science,
Master’s
Degrees
in