About - Asperatus Consulting

PH.D. WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

Jason Kelley

Jason Kelley researches water in agricultural and the environment. Previously, he worked for two years as a research engineer with the Water Management Unit of USDA Agricultural Research Service, and for three years as an assistant professor in the Department of Soil and Water Systems at the University of Idaho. He received a PhD in Water Resources Engineering at Oregon State University in 2016. He studies crop water requirements, irrigation efficiency and consumptive water use, evapotranspiration, and environmental thermodynamics using eddy-covariance flux measurement, machine learning (artificial intelligence) for interpreting complex environmental data, and water requirements in a changing climate for diverse crops, orchards, vines, alfalfa and forage. In his spare time, Jason enjoys building guitars and working on farm projects.

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Portfolio

Highlighted projects from past collaborations and employment.

Agricultural Weather Network and Low-cost ET sensor Development

Three new permanent weather stations were built in 2019 on UI research farms with support from Idaho’s Agricultural Research and Experiment Station. These stations monitor weather conditions that are pertinent to local farm operations.

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Machine learning in water managament & Site-specific Crop coefficients for ET

This project utilizes co-located eddy-covariance flux sensors as “training data” to allow machine learning (neural networks and support vector machines) to estimate actual evapotranspiration using simple and low-cost on-farm weather stations.

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Sensor development & improving data communication between researchers and end-users

Improving irrigation efficiency by estimating evaporative demand will rely on reliable and accurate sensor data.

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