Modeling Applications for Decision Support in Agriculture

Guillermo Podestá, project coordinator, attended a workshop intended to introduce researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to the application of modeling and climate forecasting as a strategy to mitigate production risks associated with climate variability and change. The workshop took place at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil, October 28-30, 2008.

The workshop was part of the activities of project “Decision Support System for Risk Reduction in Agriculture – Phase II: Soybean DSS for Eastern Paraguay and Rio Grande do Sul”, supported by the Small Grant Program of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Our CNH project is collaborating with this project.

>> See presentation by Podestá (PDF, 2473 KB)

New NCAR postdoc joins the project

Dr. Yongku Kim has joined the project as a postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Yongku is from South Korea and he received M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in Statistics from The Ohio State University. Yongku will be working with project investigators Rick Katz from NCAR and Balaji Rajagopalan from the Univ. of Colorado (left). He will explore the use of stochastic weather generators based on General Linear Models (GLMs) to downscale projected trends in precipitation in the Pampas. He also will explore whether dry and wet epochs in the Pampas can be modeled using Hidden Markov Models.