Novel Solutions to Irrigation Salinity in Urban Trees in Arid Areas

Start Date

12/02/2024

End Date

12/13/2024

Description

The issue with irrigation salinity in urban trees in arid areas may deal with reducing irrigation as a solution. However, how do you keep the soil moisture level and improve the overall health of the urban trees?

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Yes

Subjects

Water / Stormwater Management

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

1) Learn about sources of soil salinity. 2) Discuss the purposes of growing urban trees, their benefits and why irrigtaion salinity makes it hard to realize the long-term benefits of urban trees. 3) Learn a novel solution to irrigation salinity that will not only reduce soil salinity, but improve the overall health of trees.

Instructors

Dr. Wei Zhang is the VP of Research and Development at Zynnovation LLC, aka TreeDiaper. He is also the Educational Coordinator of The Institute of Soil Genomics for Health Community Forests. Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Virginia Te

Course Codes

Provider

IrriTech Training

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