Title : Dr.
Name Mohammad Esmaeil Asadi
FoS : Water Engineering and Management
Affiliation : Associate Professor
Location : WR 215, WEM Building
Phone : (662) 524 5559
Fax : (662) 524 6425
Email : asadi@ait.ac.th

Dr. Mohammad Esmaeil Asadi is from Iran and obtained his PhD degree in Integrated Water Resources Management, at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand in Aug 2001. His research interests include agricultural water management, land and water conservation and management, conservation agriculture, climate-smart agriculture (CSA), irrigation systems design and management, and precision farming

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  1. Doctor of engineering in integrated water resource management, AIT, Thailand.(2001)
  2. Master of engineering in Irrigation and Drainage, Tehran University, Iran (1995)
  3. BS in Irrigation and reclamation engineering, Tabriz University, Iran (1987).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research interests include agricultural water management, land and water conservation and management, conservation agriculture, climate smart agriculture (CSA), irrigation systems design and management, and precision farming, climate change, agrometeorology and cropwatch

TEACHING
  1. CE 74.53: Land and water conservation and management

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Asadi, M.E., and Clemente, R.S.2001. Simulation of maize yield and N uptake under tropical conditions with the CERES- Maize model. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 78(4): 211-217.
  2. Asadi, M.E., Clemente, R.S., Gupta, A.D., Loof, R., and Hansen, G.K. 2002. Impacts of fertigation via sprinkler irrigation on nitrate leaching and corn yield on an acid – sulphate soil in Thailand. Agricultural Water Management 52(3): 197-213.
  3. Clemente, R.S., Asadi, M.E., and Shrestha, S.L.2002. Application of PESTFADE to simulate nitrate leaching in a fertigated corn field in Thailand. Canadian Water Resources Journal 27(1):1-24.
  4. Asadi, M.E., and Clemente, R.S. 2003. Evaluation of CERES-Maize of DSSAT model to simulate nitrate leaching, yield and soil moisture content under tropical conditions. Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment 1(3&4): 270-276.
  5. Asadi, M.E., 2005. Effects of global climate change on water resources. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 60(5): 637-640.
  6. Clemente, R. S., Asadi, M.E., and Dixit, P. N., 2005. Assessment and comparison of three crop growth models under tropical climate conditions. Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment 3 (2): 254-261.
  7. Gheysari, M., Mirlatifi, S.M., Homaee, M., Asadi, M.E., and Hoogenboom, G. 2009. Nitrate Leaching in a Silage Maize Field under Different Irrigation and Nitrogen Fertilizer Rates. Agricultural Water Management.  96 (6):  946-954.
  8. Mokhtarpour, H., Teh, CBS., Saleh, G., Selamat, A.B., Asadi, M. E., Kamkar, B. 2010. Non-destructive estimation of maize leaf area, fresh weight, and dry weight using leaf length and leaf width. Communications in Biometry and Crop Science (CBCS) Vol. 5 (1): 19–26.
  9. Mokhtarpour, H., Teh, CBS., Saleh, G., Selamat, A.B., Asadi, M. E., Kamkar, B. 2011. Corn yield response to crowding stress and cropping season. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science. Vol. 57 (8): 853-871.
  10.  Ebrahimi, M., M. E. Asadi., M. Manshori., F. Kaveh and A. Afrous. 2011. Effect of nitrogen fertigation via two methods of sprinkler and furrow irrigation under different levels of fertilizers on yield and yield components of sweet corn. World Applied Sciences Journal 13 (4): 706-711.
  11. Feyzbakhsh, M.T., Kamkar, B., Mokhtarpour, H., and Asadi, M. E. 2015. Effect of soil water management and different sowing dates on maize yield and water use efficiency under drip irrigation system. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science. Vol. 61(11): 1581-1592.
  12.  Shahrinezhad, S., Asadi, M. E., and Tohidloo, G. 2015. Effect of Various Tillage Systems on Viability, Germination, Establishment and Yield of Wheat. Journal of Research in Applied sciences. Vol. 2(4): 108-118.
  13. Arabi, Z., Homaee, M., Asadi, M. E., and Asadi Kapourchal, S. 2017. Cadmium removal from Cd-contaminated soils using some natural and synthetic chelates for enhancing phytoextraction. Chemistry and Ecology

ONGOING AND COMPLETED PROJECTS
  1. Calibration and evaluation of the CERES-Wheat simulation model in Golestan province
  2. Determination of maize water use efficiency under different management of tillage
  3. Determination of water use efficiency of soybean under different managements of no-till and conventional tillage

AWARDS AND HONORS
  1. Outstanding soil and water researcher, Ministry of Agriculture of Iran (1996).
  2. Outstanding Research on conservation agriculture, Iran (2016).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  1. Asian Institute of Technology Alumni
  2. International Society for Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM)
  3. International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)

RESEARCH KEYWORDS
Crop water productivity, Conservation agriculture, Land and water conservation