Proximal sensing technologies
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Dr. Dirk B. Hays
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Dr. Dirk Hays’ has 34 years of experience in crop improvement with a BS and PhD in Biochemistry from Texas A&M and Plant Physiology from the University of Calgary. He held Postdoctoral positions with USDA, ARS before being hired as a Professor in Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University in 2002. His $32 million in research funding has focused on physiological crop breeding for high value, heat, and drought tolerant crops for Texas. Most recently, he founded Crop Phenomics LLC which offers root, tuber, and soil carbon monitoring, as well as, utility mapping, and irrigation leak detection technologies to breeders, producers, ranchers, cities, irrigation districts, and the forestry and petroleum industry.
He has been funded by Fulbright, NSF, DOE, USDA, DOT, USAID, McKnight and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, Texas Producer Boards, and Rohm Haas, Syngenta, Bayer and Exxon Mobil.
He chairs(ed) 3 current and 36 former MS and PhD students who are professors and leaders at pier universities, multi-national corporations, and CGIAR Centers.
He has been funded by Fulbright, NSF, DOE, USDA, DOT, USAID, McKnight and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, Texas Producer Boards, and Rohm Haas, Syngenta, Bayer and Exxon Mobil.
He chairs(ed) 3 current and 36 former MS and PhD students who are professors and leaders at pier universities, multi-national corporations, and CGIAR Centers.
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