Agriculture Water
Management
Advancing research and promoting agricultural practices to better understand and sustain Colorado’s natural water resources.
The Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University advances research and promotes agricultural practices that decrease water consumption or increase water efficiency, including adoption of alternative low water-use crops and irrigation management practices.
Researchers and Innovators at CSU
Colorado Water Center Agriculture Research Staff
Perry E. Cabot, Ph.D.
Extension Professor, Colorado Water Center and CSU Agricultural Experiment Station
Dr. Cabot received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering and Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. Perry has been with Colorado State University since 2008. His research program focuses on innovative irrigation technologies, crop consumptive use evaluation, and alternative cropping systems. He is the water resources specialist for the Colorado Water Center in the Western Region of the state. He also leads the research and extension mission at the Western Colorado Research Center in the Grand Valley in its role as the western CSU campus unit focused on sustainable water resources management. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Zambia and active with Engineers Without Borders.
Joel P. Schneekloth
Water Resource Specialist, Colorado Water Center and CSU Extension
Joel Schneekloth is a Water Resource Specialist for the Colorado Water Center and CSU Extension. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanized Agriculture with an emphasis on water resources from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Joel has been with Colorado State University since 2000. Prior to that, he held Water Resource Extension Educator and Water Resources Coordinator positions with the University of Nebraska. Joel conducts research and educational programs relating to irrigation and crop production with a primary emphasis upon limited water supplies, system management and design, and alternative crops.
Prior research projects have included irrigated forage production, irrigation response of sunflowers, water response of oilseeds, and residue management impacts on water. His current research and demonstration projects include a large-scale limited irrigation and crop systems projects in the Republican and South Platte Basin and impact of cover cropping in an irrigated production system.
Featured Resources
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Agricultural Scenery in the lower Arkansas River Basin in eastern Colorado Irrigation Technologies
