Dr. Prasher’s research program has been addressing the crucial challenge of sustaining agricultural production while protecting the environment from agricultural sources of contamination. The main innovative features of his research program are the incorporation of novel, conceptual, and innovative computer modeling, data analysis and processing techniques into problems of water resources management and water pollution. These skills will be needed in global systems of the future and my research program permits not only their exploration and development but also effective graduate training in these areas.
Dr. Prasher has established a very strong research program in both bioenvironmental and soil and water engineering. A well-equipped laboratory for analyzing emerging contaminants, such as hormones and veterinary antibiotics, as well as pesticide residues in soil and water samples and a field lysimeter site have been complementing his research efforts and the training of graduate students in these areas.
The focus of his research program is on the development of best/beneficial on-farm pollution control practices, hydrologic modeling of subsurface-drained agricultural watersheds under changing climate, fate and transport of emerging contaminants such as hormones and veterinary antibiotics, pesticide modeling, and use of artificial intelligence in soil hydrology.
