Third In-situ and Remote Soil Moisture Sensing Technology Conference
Houston, TX, March 12-14 2014
Jointly Organized by Prairie View A&M University College of Agriculture and Human Sciences and American
Society of Agronomy Sensor-based Water Management Community

College of Agr. & Hum. Sci.) attention Ali Fares
see address below.
Proceedings and Peer Review Publication

Theme
This conference will focus on current and future research
directions in in-situ and remote sensing technology withspecial emphasis on:
The three main themes of this conference are:
 Simultaneous sensing of multiple soil properties

Program
The preliminary program of this conference will as
follows:
Wednesday, March 12, 2014:
 Soil moisture sensing assessment at different scales
Thursday, March 13, 2014:
 Simultaneous sensing of multiple soil properties
Friday, March 14, 2014:
 Logging, telemetry, and analysis software, Dataretrieval and transferred.

Conference Venue
The Galleria, downtown Houston, Texas.
https://www.google.com/#q=galleria+houston+hotels

Housing
A block of 50 rooms will be reserved for the participantof the meeting for the period of March 11-15, 2014 atone of the main hotels of the Galleria. Room types andrates will be available shortly.

Registration:
 $300.00 Regular and $90.00 Students byJanuary 31 2014.
 $325.00 Regular and $100.00 student after
March 1 2014.
 $ 40.00 Spouse/Guest fee (Dinner reception)
Registration fee covers the meeting, proceedings
CD, Dinner reception March 12th 2014, andrefreshments. Spouse/Guest fee includes thereception Dinner and refreshments.
You can register online via Acteva
http://www.acteva.com/
or send your registration form and a check or amoney order of your registration fees (payable toAbstracts will be published in a proceedings CD; inaddition, participants will have an opportunity toparticipate in a special section of Vadose Zone Journal.
Ten manuscripts from the 2nd meeting were published ina special section Vol. 12 Issue 2 of Vadose Zone Journal
https://www.soils.org/publications/vzj/tocs/12/2#top.
Registered participants will have a copy of proceedings
on a CD at the start of the conference. The same content
will be made available online at the conference website.

Organizing Committee

Ali Fares, Prairie View A&M University
Tom Jackson, USDA-ARS-Beltsville
Taha Ouarda, Masdar Institute, UAETimothy R. Green, USDA-ARS-NPA-ASRU
Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University
Susan O'Shaughnessy, USDA-ARS
Alton Johnson, Prairie View A&M University
Harry Vereecken, Bonn University, Germany
Marouane Temimi, Masdar Insititue, UAE
Mike Cosh, USDA-ARS-Beltsville-MD
Robert Schwartz, USDA-ARS Bushland, TX
Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University
Kosuke Noborio, Meiji University, Japan
Yurui Sun, China Agricultural University

Scientific CommitteeSteven R. Evett, USDA-ARS, Bushland, TX
Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State UniversityHala, Al-Jassar, Kuwait
Kosuke Noborio,University of Kawasaki, Japan
Ole Wendroth, University of Kentucky

Industrial Committee Colin Campbell, Decagon Devices Pullman WA
 Peter Buss, Sentek Pty Ltd, South Australia
Local Committee Ripendra Awal, Prairie View A&M University
 Ram Ray, Prairie View A&M University
 Fouad Jaber, Texas A&M University
For More Information
Ali Fares, Associate Director of ResearchCollege of Agriculture & Human Sciences PV A&M
University. P. O. Box 519, MS 2008 Prairie View, TX
77446. Phone: 936 261 5019 Fax: 936 261 2548
Email: AlFares@PVAMU.Edu