Faculty Profile

Naraine Persaud, Ph.D.

Professor

Appointment

Teaching : 70%

Research : 30%

Extension : 0%

Web

• Groundwater Primer

 

 

Education

• B.S.Animal Science/Dairying Allahabad 1968
• M.S. Vegetable Crops Florida 1976
• Ph.D. Soil Physics Florida 1978

Link to recent CV

Professional Activities and Interests

• Non-linear characteristics of agri-environmental data series

• Semi-arid tropical agro-meteorology in relation crop and soil water management

Courses

Course Number	Course Name
ENSC 3634	Physics of Pollution
CSES/CEE 4594	Soil and Groundwater Pollution
CSES 4524	Agrometerology

Current Projects

1. Constructed urban soil management
2. Non-linear characteristics of agri-environmental data series

Recent Publications

1. Zhou, X., N. Persaud, H. Wang and H. Lin. 2007. Multifractal scaling of daily streamflow time series in agricultural watersheds. Journal American Water Resources Association 42: 1659-1670

2. Zhou, X., N. Persaud, H. Wang and H. Lin. 2007. Multifractal scaling of daily streamflow time series in agricultural watersheds. Journal American Water Resources Association 42: 1659-1670

3. Zhou X., N. Persaud, and H. Wang, 2006. Scale invariance of daily runoff time series in agricultural watersheds. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 10: 79-91.

4. Wang, H., N. Persaud, and X. Zhou. 2006. Specifying scale-dependent dispersivity in
   numerical solutions of the convection dispersion equation. Soil Science Society of America Journal 70:1843-1850

5. Hassan, G., K. M. Ismail, N. Persaud, and R. B. Reneau. 2004. Dependence of the degree of linear polarization in scattered visible light on soil textural fractions. Soil Science 169:806 -814.

6. Persaud,  N. and R. Khosla. 1999.  Partitioning soil water losses in different plant populations of dryland corn. Agricultural Water Management 42: 157-172

7. Persaud, N., and A. C. Chang. 1985. Minimax approximations for erf(x). Soil Science 139:387-393

8. Persaud, N., and J. V. Giraldez. 1985. Monte-Carlo simulation of interacting solute  transport in a spatially heterogeneous soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 49:562-568.

9. Persaud, N., and A. C. Chang. 1984. Analysis of the stochastic component in observed soil profile temperature. Soil Science 138:326-334.

10. Persaud, N., and P. J. Wierenga. 1982. A differential model for one-dimensional cation transport in discrete homoionic ion exchange media. Soil Science Society of America Journal 46:482-490.

 

Personal Activities and Interests

 

 

Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences
330 Smyth Hall (0404)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231.6305 (V)
540.231.3431 (F)