Harold van Es
Soil and Water Management, Soil Physics, Precision Agriculture

1005 Bradfield Hall (607) 255-5629 Fax:(607) 255-6143 E-mail: hmv1@cornell.edu Vita: http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/hmv1/hmv1_vanes07.doc Web Site: http://www.css.cornell.edu/research/precisionag Kandidaats degree 1981. Physical Geography, University of Amsterdam MS 1984. Soil Management, Iowa State University PhD 1987. Soil Physics, North Carolina State University Harold van Es, Professor of Soil and Water Management, joined Cornell in 1988. He has extension, research and teaching responsibilities related to the management of soil and water resources. He serves as Director of Graduate Studies and is the lead PI for the Cornell Initiative on Computational Agriculture. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and also served as chair of Division S-6 (Soil and Water Management). He was an advisory member to the New York State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, and member of EPA Science Review Boards for FQPA and FIFRA implementation. He authored over 60 refereed journal articles, co-authored the best-selling book Building Soils for Better Crops, and served as major advisor for 18 graduate students.

Research and Extension Programs Our research program focuses on soil and water management and includes projects related to precision agriculture (esp. nitrogen and hyperspectral sensing), soil health, landscape preocesses,tillage, and contaminant movement in soils. We generally integrate multiple agronomic and environmental measurements, and emphasize advanced statistical methods, including geostatistics and data mining. We also developed the Cornell Sprinkle Infiltrometer, which is finding widespread usage in soils research. Most of our work is conducted in New York, but in recent years we have had projects in Honduras, Mexico, Togo, and Mozambique. As an extension specialist, I educate extension field staff, farmers and other professionals on sustainable land management with an emphasis on soil health and precision agriculture. I also co-lead a collaborative project on healthy landscape management with scientists in Eastern Europe. Courses Taught CSS 421 Soil and Water Management CSS 621 Applications of Space-Time Statistics

Selected Publications Magdoff, F.R., and H.M. van Es. 2000. Building Soils for Better Crops. Handbook Series Book 4. Sustainable Agric. Network, Beltsville, MD. 224 pp. (over 10,000 copies sold). H.M. van Es, J.M. Sogbedji, and R.R. Schindelbeck. 2006. Nitrate Leaching under Maize and Grass as Affected by Manure Application Timing and Soil Type. J. Environmental Quality (in print). Magri, A., H.M. van Es, M. Glos, and W.J. Cox. 2005. Integrated assessment of the use of crop, soil, and remote sensing information for precision management of maize. Precision Agric. 6:87-110. Kahabka, J.E., H.M. van Es, E.J. McClenahan, and W.J. Cox. 2004. Spatial analysis of maize response to N fertilizer in Central New York. Precision Agriculture 5:463-476. van Es, H.M., C.B. Ogden, R.L. Hill, R.R. Schindelbeck, and T. Tsegaye. 1999. Integrated assessment of space, time, and management-related variability of soil hydraulic properties. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63:1599-1607.