Faculty
Jay Ham
Professor
C-107 Plant Science Building
jay.ham@colostate.edu
970-491-4112 office
970-491-2405 ardec
970-491-0564 fax
Research Interests
- Environmental physics and micrometeorology
- Effects of animal feeding operations on air and water quality
- Long-term CO2 and H2O flux monitoring by eddy covariance
- Global climate change and field-scale carbon budgets
- Instrumentation development
- Remote sensing
- Soil-plant-water relations
- Irrigation management
Courses
New Courses in micrometeorology will be offered in the Spring of 2010.New Publications
- Baum, K.A., and J.M. Ham*. 2009. Adaptation of a speciation sampling cartridge for measuring ammonia flux from cattle feedlots using relaxed eddy accumulation. Atmospheric Environment. 43:1753-1759. [pdf]
- Ham, J.M., and K.A. Baum. 2009. Measuring seepage from waste lagoons and earthen basins with an overnight water balance test. Transactions ASABE. 52(3): 835-844. [pdf]
- Vaillant, G.C., G.M. Pierzynski*, J.M. Ham and J. DeRouchey. 2009. Nutrient accumulation below cattle feedlot pens in Kansas. J. Environ. Quality 38:909-918. [pdf]
- Baum, K. A., J. M. Ham, N. A. Brunsell, and P. I. Coyne. 2008. Surface boundary layer of cattle feedlots: implications for air emission measurement. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 148:1882-1893. [pdf]
- Brunsell*, N. A., J. M. Ham and C. E. Owensby: 2008. Assessing the multi-resolution information content of remotely sensed variables and elevation for evapotranspiration in a tallgrass prairie environment. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:2977-2987. [pdf]
- Duesterhaus, J., J.M. Ham*, C.E. Owensby, and J. Murphy. Water Balance of a Stock Watering Pond in the Flint Hills of Kansas. 2008. Journal of Range Ecology & Management. 61:329-338.[pdf]
* Corresponding Author