Awards and Achievements
🏅 AGU Hydrology Section – RSTC Student Award
Event: AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2025
Recognition by: AGU Hydrology Section – Remote Sensing Technical Committee (RSTC) for outstanding presentation; recognized on the RSTC website
Title: Assessment of Soil Moisture Relationship with Gross Primary Production Using Remote Sensing
Authors: Parvin Momenian, Vinit Sehgal
🥇 First Place – Applied Research Category
Organizer: Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association (LCAAA)
Presented at:LSU Ag Summit, 2025
Format: Poster Competition
Title: Soil Moisture Modeling with Minimal Data for Operational Ag Decision Support
Authors: Nusrat Jahan, Vinit Sehgal, Stacia Conger
🥈 Second Place – Soil Physics & Hydrology Division Student Competition
Event: CANVAS 2025, organized by the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Societies (ASA–SSSA–CSSA)
Format: 5‑minute rapid oral + poster presentation
Title: Can Land Surface Water–Energy Fluxes Drive Rootzone Soil Moisture Modeling?
Authors: Nusrat Jahan, Vinit Sehgal, Stacia Conger
LSU Soil Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab 