Christopher Neale, a USU associate professor with BIE and the Watershed Science Unit and a co-principal investigator in the project, said the contract covers four components of the ambitious project. First, the research team will produce maps of the Dominican Republic with particular attention to the country's 3,000 square kilometers of irrigated land. Next, researchers will create a database of water, agriculture and climate information including canal flow measurements, soil moisture and evaporation rates, temperature and precipitation rates. Finally, Neale will monitor crop producing areas of the country using an aerial photography method he developed.
High salinity makes soils unsuitable for growing crops.
And every year they are losing more ground to increasing salinity levels. While the government of the Dominican Republic will continue to oversee many water resource issues, it is preparing to turn over management of the country's irrigation systems to user groups. He is a co-principal investigator on the project. We looked around very carefully and selected Utah State University. Met artists of the past and present will be featured in historic broadcast performances from many of the operas that will be heard during the upcoming radio season.