Specialist - Irrigation and Water Resources E
Biological & Irrigation Engineering

Dr. Hill is a Professor in the Biological and Irrigation Engineering Department. He has extensive practical experience with field irrigation in addition to his 40 years of professional activity in water resources engineering, water measurement, and irrigation system management and design. This includes university teaching, extension and research along with consulting, engineering design, international technical assistance, and short term training of developing country scientists and engineers. He is currently conducting irrigation scheduling, crop water use and yield and irrigation system performance research in Utah. Dr. Hill has written major computer programs for river basin hydrologic simulation, pipe network design, center pivot nozzling, irrigation scheduling and crop water requirements, crop yield models, economic evaluation of agricultural investments and an irrigation management game. He has authored over 90 technical and more than 40 extension publications, as well as supervising 53 graduate students. He is a registered professional agricultural engineer in Utah.

Specialist - Farm Mgmt / Finance
Economics

Extension specialist and Professor in Economics. Most of his work deals with the use and management natural resources. Bruce also does work concerning with the economic and financial issues associated with farms and ranches. He also does work on issues associated with rural communities. He was raised on a crop and dairy farm in Eastern Idaho.

Sr Programmer
USU IT

Chuck is the Sr Programmer and Database Administrator for USU Extension. Chuck has developed and administered many Database systems including Sybase, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Due to the statewide dispersion of Extension Coop and Continuing Education, his preferred method of application development has become the web; using technologies like ColdFusion, PHP, and Perl.