José A. Gómez is a staff
scientist at the Agronomy department of the
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture,
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
(Spain). He works there on sustainability of Mediterranean agricultural
systems, concentrating in olive
olive orchards.
His final objective is to contribute to improve soil conservation in one
of the key crops in the region, a crop subjected to
severe
erosion
problems.
With that final objective, he
colaborates in several projects aimed to understand hydrological fluxes
and erosion processes in
olive orchards
as well as the effect of different soil management on soil properties. His main interests are related to
measurement of runoff and water erosion at hillslope and small basin level,
modeling
of runoff and soil erosion, and soil quality. He has also an interest in
initiatives involving collaboration among specialists from different areas
around
sustainability of olive cultivation from
a broader perspective. If you
click here you will access a web
page about this subject with plenty of information.
He obtained an Agricultural
Engineering Degree at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and
Forestry, University of Córdoba (Spain), and a PhD on Agricultural
Engineering at the University of Córdoba. Afterwards we was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the
NSERL, at
the Purdue
University Campus, working on water erosion modeling (RUSLE and WEPP), spatial
variability of infiltration and rill initiation. He has been, since
2002, at the
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
in Cordoba.
