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Ben Runkle
Associate Professor, University of Arkansas
I lead the Landscape Flux Research Group at the University of Arkansas and focus on connections between the carbon and water cycles in agricultural and wetland environments. This field-based research involves long-term measurements of key environmental fluxes (e.g., evapotranspiration, surface water flows, CO2 and methane emissions from the landscape to the atmosphere). This research also provides the basis for process studies and computer modeling approaches to environmental systems.
Professional Experience
University of Arkansas
Associate Professor
2020 - Present
University of Arkansas
Asst Professor
2014 - 2020
Education
University of California Berkeley
Doctorate
2009
University of California Berkeley
Masters
2004
Princeton University
Bachelors
2000
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Honors & Awards
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Received December 2024
Publications
AGU Abstracts
Predicting planting and harvesting date of rice in Arkansas using satellite images and machine learning algorithms
ONLINE POSTER SESSION FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: AGRICULTURE 2 - XVII
global environmental change | 25 january 2024
Riasad Bin Mahbub, Beatriz Moreno-Garcia, Brad G. ...
In an agricultural setting, the planting date (PD) and harvesting date (HD) are used to define the growing season length. This temporal information is...
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Effects of Alternate Wetting and Drying on rice cultivation systems at regional scale
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: MONITORING AND MODELING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON DYNAMICS AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS I POSTER
global environmental change | 15 december 2023
Rongzhu Qin, Kaiyu Guan, Bin Peng, Benjamin Runkle...
In rice cultivation systems, Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) water management is widely recognized to be effective in mitigating greenhouse gas emi...
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Linking eddy covariance CO2 fluxes with tower-based hyperspectral and solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) observations for improved understanding of rice photosynthesis
SURFACE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN EDDY COVARIANCE AND REMOTE SENSING I POSTER
biogeosciences | 14 december 2023
Will P. Richardson, Kaiyu Guan, Michele Reba, Benj...
Eddy covariance (EC) observations of CO2 fluxes provide critical information on photosynthesis (i.e., Gross Primary Production, or GPP) in both natura...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2021
Member
Biogeosciences Fall Meeting Program Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Fall Meeting Program Committee
2020 - 2020
Fall Meeting Program Representative
Biogeosciences Executive Committee
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