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Hydraulic conductivity, or the ability of a soil to transmit water, is critical to understanding the complete water balance. In fact, if you’re trying to model the fate of water in your system and simply estimating parameters like conductivity, you could get orders of magnitude errors in your projections. It would be like searching in the dark for a moving target. If you want to understand how water will move across and within your soil system, you need to understand hydraulic conductivity because it governs water flow.
Hydraulic conductivity impacts almost every soil application: crop production, irrigation, drainage, hydrology in both urban and native lands, landfill performance, stormwater system design, aquifer recharge, runoff during flooding, soil erosion, climate models, and even soil health. In this 20-minute webinar, METER research scientist, Leo Rivera discusses how to better understand water movement through soil.
Join Leo Rivera as he discusses:
- Saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity—What are they?
- Why you need to measure hydraulic conductivity
- Measurement methods for the lab and the field
- What hydraulic conductivity can tell you about the fate of water in your system
Presenter:
Leo Rivera is research scientist and Director of Scientific Outreach at METER Group. He earned his undergraduate degree in Agriculture Systems Management at Texas A&M University where he also got his Master’s degree in Soil Science. There, he helped develop an infiltration system for measuring hydraulic conductivity used by the NRCS in Texas. Currently, Leo is the force behind application development in METER’s hydrology instrumentation including HYPROP and WP4C.
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