SPEAKER
Harbans Lal, Ph.D.
Dr. Harbans Lal is an agricultural engineer (Ph.D.) with extensive international experience of working on various aspects of natural resource management. He has worked with international organizations such as ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) in India; and IICA (Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences) in Costa Rica to serve as consultant to EMBRAPA, Brazil. In the US he has consulted with several federal agencies including US-EPA, US-BLM, and US-FS. For the past 10 years, he has been working as an environmental engineer on the National Water Quality and Quantity Team of the USDA/NRCS located at the West National Technology Support Center in Portland, OR. His current interests include water quality trading – especially tools such as NTT for credits quantification, indices for evaluating runoff water quality from agricultural fields (WQIag), and animal agriculture and its interaction with climate change.
Dr. Harbans Lal is an agricultural engineer (Ph.D.) with extensive international experience of working on various aspects of natural resource management. He has worked with international organizations such as ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) in India; and IICA (Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences) in Costa Rica to serve as consultant to EMBRAPA, Brazil. In the US he has consulted with several federal agencies including US-EPA, US-BLM, and US-FS. For the past 10 years, he has been working as an environmental engineer on the National Water Quality and Quantity Team of the USDA/NRCS located at the West National Technology Support Center in Portland, OR. His current interests include water quality trading – especially tools such as NTT for credits quantification, indices for evaluating runoff water quality from agricultural fields (WQIag), and animal agriculture and its interaction with climate change.