Meet Hamid J. Farahani

Hamid is an agricultural engineer with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Water Management Unit in Fort Collins. His main fields of interest include precision agriculture, water management, agricultural modeling, and soil variability and electrical conductivity. Hamid is a faculty affiliate at the Civil engineering department and advises and serves on graduate student committees. He is an active member of ASAE, serving as technical associate editor in soil and water division. Hamid was born in Tehran and immigrated to the US in 1978. He received his BS from Kansas State Univ., MS from Univ. of Arizona and PhD from Colorado State University, all in the traditional agricultural engineering discipline with emphasis on soil and water. He has held post-doc positions with USDA-ARS Great Plains Systems Research in Fort Collins and has worked extensively with the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences on Dryland Agroecosystem and Precision Agriculture Projects. Hamid used to have many favorite pastimes, but those all changed with the birth of his daughter (Maryam).