Research Topics in New Agriculture

1. Agronomics, Environmental Science, Ecological Agriculture and Wildlife

-- Agronomics

• Bioeconomy
• Agricultural and applied economics
• Agricultural economics and policy
  
• Agronomy (pathology, soil management, and weed science)
• Stages in agriculture (Pre-Harvesting, Harvesting, Post-Harvesting)
• Economic perspectives for agriculture and forestry
• Sustainable agriculture
• Sustainable development and economic-social impacts
• Crop production and market analysis
• Forest mensuration, modelling and forecasting
• Urban trees and greenspace in a changing climate
• Plant breeding and molecular breeding 
• The world of seaweeds
• Sustainability in
 water, energy, urban, food, forest, land, and ecological systems
• Cognitive assistants to farmers, agronomics engineers, laborers, and other workers in the agricultural production chains.
• Upstream human behavior and downstream ecosystem services
• Agricultural and biosystems management
• Regenerative agriculture
• Vegetation management
• Biometeorology, Biomimicry, Biometry 
• Landscape architecture 

-- Forestry

• Forest managment
• Forests and climate change
• Climate and carbon exchange
• Water, air, and soil
• Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
• Forest mensuration and biometrics in the AI era
• Fish and wildlife
• Forest and plant health
• Natural resources, applied ecology, and environmental science
• Biotechnology and molecular genetics
• Forest biomaterials
• Remote sensing and geospatial
• Geospatial analytics 
• Biodiversity studies
• Conservation and management
• Wildlife ecology and management
• Manage the land
• Ecological informatics and modelling
• Historical and retrospective studies
• Invasive plants, pests and pathogens
• Forest genetics 
• Physiological ecology, population dynamics, and species interactions
• Wildland fire

-- Ecological Agriculture and Wildlife 

• Agroecology, sustainable and secure food systems
• Wildlife ecology and management
• Fisheries ecology and management
• Aquatic ecology and management
• Aquaponics
• Landscape limnology
• Ecological sustainability and landscape ecology
• Human dimensions and policy
• Ecological genetics and physiology
• Biometry and ecological modeling
• Spatial ecology
• Ecological engineering
• Ecological agriculture (natural ecosystem services, such as water filtration, pollination, oxygen production, and disease and pest control)
• Plant ecology and diversity 
• Wildlife ecology
• Wildlife conservation and management
• Marine macroalgal ecology
• The complex interactions among species (amphibians, birds, fish, habitat management, Invertebrates, Mammals, Reptiles)
• Ecosystem dynamics and processes
• Land use and management
• Emerging threats

-- Environmental Science and Ecology

• Environmental change and ecology
• Bioenvironmental engineering/ecosystem modeling
• Environmental biophysics
• Water resources economics and policy
• Freshwater ecosystems (rivers, lakes and wetlands)

• Structures and environment

• Environmental – Soil & Water
• Microbe-Environment Nexus
  
• Agriculture and air quality
• Agricultural air quality research
• Agriculture and global warming
  
• Agriculture and climate change
• Biogeochemical and ecological processes in forest and agricultural systems

• Forest engineering

• Natural resources and environmental engineering
• Water resources and environmental engineering

• Biological engineering

• Microbiological Engineering
• Environmental microbiology 
• Waste management and the protection of the environment
• Agricultural waste treatment engineering
• Animal manure management
• Environmental permitting and remediation
• Plant and animal environments

2. Crop Production and Management, Systems Informatics and Analytics

-- Climate Change

• Climate change adaptation
• Agriculture and climate change
• Global climate change and ecosystems
• Climate informatics.
• Sustainable agriculture, forestry and climate
• Climate change and environmental ecology 
• Greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, etc.)
  
• Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions sources (agricultural soil management, enteric fermentation, manure management, carbon dioxide from fossil fuel consumption, etc.)
  
• Agricultural greenhouse gas sinks (forest management practices, CO2 flux from agricultural soils, etc. )
  
• Urban controlled environment agriculture,

-- Indoor Vertical Farming, Crop Production and Management

3. Emerging Technology in New Agriculture 

• Nanoparticle-Based Sustainable Agriculture and Food Science
• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• Bee Vectoring Technology
• Quantum technology in agriculture
• Precision Agriculture 
• Livestock Farming Technology
• Laser Scarecrows
• Farm Automation
• Machine Vision in Agriculture
• Autonomous Navigation Agricultural Robots
• Real Time Motion (RTK) Technology
• Photonics Applications for Agriculture
• Precision Gene Engineering
• Minichromosome Technology
• Farm Management Software
• Water Management Technology

4. Digital Agriculture

• Nexus of food/energy/water Systems (FEWS)

• Greenhouse intelligent control system
• Intelligent agriculture
• Expert system in agriculture 
• Forest management
• Electronic commerce technology for agricultural products
• Agricultural transportation, distribution and marketing
• Agri-tourism and other new mode
• New media in agriculture
• Photonics in agriculture
• Computational agriculture
• Computational agroecology
• Blockchain technology in agriculture
• Human factors and interface design in the context of digital agriculture systems. 

• Software and API service platforms and middleware support for digital agriculture. 

• Computer simulation, optimization and modeling
• B2B marketing - bioproducts industries

• Digital dirt

5. Precision Agriculture

• Internet of things for agriculture
• Food traceability - from farm to smartphone to table
• Fruit-harvesting robots
• Intelligent control for agriculture system
• Photonics in agriculture and food systems
• Biological Engineering Sensor Technologies (sensors and instruments for applications in biological, agricultural, food, and environment engineering)
• Smart robotic sensors arms for localized precise measurements
• Cloud control in agriculture system
• Distributing control and control networks in agriculture
• Agriculture modernization model and technology integration
• Digital and Precision and agriculture

• Data analysis and analytics systems applied to agricultural processes. 

• Precision agriculture systems, including sensing, data collection and analysis, decision-making, and IoT. 

• Weather and climate monitoring and prediction systems in the context of agriculture, and new applications of weather/climate data. 

• Agricultural robotics, including drones and equipment automation

• Image processing of agricultural data, including satellite and in-field data

• Image-based plant disease detection using deep learning approach

• Processing of genomic data used in applications of agriculture

• Electronic cattle monitoring systems, including hardware, data collection, and analysis

• Soil and water data sensing, processing, and analysis

• Autonomous vehicles in agricultural scenarios 

• Agriculture and food logistic chains sensing, data analysis, provenance systems, and optimization

• Augmented and virtual reality systems applied to agriculture

• Machine vision and navigation technology

• Detecting and sensors
• IoT sensors in Agriculture
• Bio-sensors, bio-instrumentation, bio-informatics and bio-nanotechnology
• Sensors and information systems for precision agriculture, remote sensing
• Smart sensor array system
• Sensor application in managing in-season crop variability
• Precision farming technologies, equipment and instruments
• Remote sensing applications in precision agriculture
• Advances in intelligent remote sensing for precision agriculture
• Crop monitoring and precision agriculture
• High-throughput phenotyping
• Precision horticulture
• Precision crop protection
• Precision conservation management
• Precision nutrient management
• Proximal sensing in precision agriculture
• Remote sensing for natural ecosystems, agriculture, and hydrology
• Remote sensing techniques for water environment
• Geospatial-information science and remote sensing
• Optical properties and remote sensing of inland and coastal waters

• Standards and safety engineering

• Risk management  
• Flood risk management
• Emerging issues in precision agriculture (energy, biofuels, climate change, standards)
• Sensor-controlled Hydroponic and Aeroponic Agriculture Systems.
• Automation and robotics in agriculture
• Agricultural robots
• Auto-guidance systems
• Mechatronics and robotics
• Robotic farm swarms
• Water-Energy-Food Nexus

6. Smart Farming, AI/ML/DL/Computer Vision in Agriculture

• Food security and precision agriculture
• Holistic cyber physical systems for smart farming
• User-friendly and application-oriented visualization and decision support system
• Interoperability of heterogeneous devices and actuators
• Multi-support edge routers and communication protocols
• Ontology, sensor metadata and semantic data
• Big data systems and technologies
• Scalable IoT cloud platforms for small to large farms
• Massive data integration and fusion
• Unmanned robotic vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle, and collaborative processing of remote and proximity sensory data
• Wireless network access medium, low power WiFi and BLE
• Robust, energy efficient and long lifetime architecture of WSN node for outdoor application and field test
• Robust and low cost user-friendly plug and play wireless sensor node, network architecture and implementation
• New environment sensor technologies
• Energy harvesting techniques for battery-less IoT node

-- AI/ML/DL/Computer Vision in Agriculture

• Crop and soil monitoring
• Insect and plant disease detection
• Livestock health monitoring
• Intelligent spraying
• Automatic weeding
• Aerial survey and imaging
• Produce grading and sorting
• The future of AI in Agriculture
• Poultry diseases diagnostics models using deep learning
• AI and machine vision for agriculture and aquaculture (robots, watering, resource management, optimization of nitrogen in the soil, species breeding, species recognition, etc..)
• Deep learning for image-based plant disease detection
• AI-powered food computers

7. Photonic Technology in Plant and Agricultural Sciences

-- Manipulate Plants with Coherent and Incoherent Light 

-- Numerical Methods for Data Processing in Plant and Agricultural Sciences 

-- Related Topics 

8. Food Science

• Food chemistry
• Food physical chemistry
• Food engineering
• Food technology
• Metabolic engineering
• Protein engineering
• Synthetic biology
• Agricultural safety and health
• Bioagricultural sciences
• Green farming and organic agriculture
• Agricultural products processing
• Plant protein extraction
• Transgenic technologies
• Food safety engineering: inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by using novel non-thermal processing technologies
• Food contaminationand emerging contaminants

• Food and process engineering

• Food science, quality and safety
• Food microbiology
• Multifunctional food
• Food & Bioprocess
  
• Food nanoscale engineering
• Nanoparticles in food
• Convergence of nanotechnology With food and agriculture
• Foodomics
• Molecular gastronomy
• Quality control
• Sensory analysis
• Emerging technologies in sterilization and pasteurization
• Technologies in food processing: thermal (pasteurization, sterilization, and aseptic packaging) and non-thermal (ultrasounds, UV radiation, ozonation, high hydrostatic pressure) 
• Sustainable packaging

9. Animal Agriculture

-- Animal Science

• Animal vaccine

• Gamete biology

• Embryology

• Theriogenology

• Animal cloning

• Stem cell research

• Reproductive biology

• Pathobiology

• Molecular biology

• Fungal genetics and molecular biology

• Value-added biotransformation

• Gene regulation, comparative genomics, sequence analysis, evolution

• Bioinformatics and statistical genetics

• Next generation sequencing

• Developmental biology

• Developmental epigenetics 

• Developments in Poultry Growth Performance

• Emerging Methods for the Evaluation of Sensory Quality of Meat and Meat Products

• Animal Breeding and Livestock Diversity in the Era of in vitro Cultured Products

• Sustainably Improving Fertility for Animal Production

• Sustainable Livestock Breeding and Selection in the Tropical and Subtropical Regions

• Management Techniques to Improve Farm Animal Health in a Parasitic World

• Growth, Metabolism and Flesh quality in Aquaculture Nutrition

• Fish Health and Disease Management

• Technological and Economic Advancement for Efficient and Sustainable Dairy Farming in Large Ruminants

• Unveiling the Nexus Between Animal Welfare, the Environment and Sustainable Development

• Animal Fibers

• The Evolution of Future Livestock Production Systems

• Animal Welfare and the Economic Sustainability of Farms

• Understanding the Interaction Between Nutrition and Swine Health

• Technological, Sensorial and Nutritional Quality of Meat and Meat Alternative Products: Enhancement through New Ingredients and Process Application

• Amino Acid Nutrition in Beef and Dairy Cattle: Requirements, Utilization and Metabolism

• Current State of Male Physiological Research and the Impacts of Environment and Fetal Programming in Livestock

• The Problem of Protein in Animal Nutrition: so much required, so little used

• Opportunities and Challenges of Modernizing Chinese Traditional Meat Products

• New Insights in Meat-Processing: The Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Product Safety and Quality

• Foods Enriched in Different Nutrients for a Healthy Diet

• Minimally Invasive Monitoring of Stress in Farm Animals

• Animal-Derived Foods in Our Diets: Nutrition, Health and Social Implications

• Buffalo (Swamp and Riverine) Production for Meat and Milk 

• Animal Production in Agroecological Approach 

• Using High-Quality Fresh Forages as Supplements for High Production Systems of Ruminants 

• Interventions for Improving Livestock Productivity in Developing Countries  

• Management Methods to Enhance Animal Welfare and Product Quality  

• Stem Cells in Animal Production  

• Stress-Coping Styles and Animal Welfare in the Perspective of Improving Farming Practices  

• "Next Generation” Feed: Agri-Food Streams and Leftovers (AFSL), Former Food and Insect as Innovative and Alternative Ingredients for Livestock Production  

• Dairy and Beef Heifer Growth Strategies for Increased Productivity, Longevity and Reduced Environmental Impact  

• Bio-accessibility of Functional Compounds and Nutrients of Animal Diets  

• Effects of Enzymes on Quality Properties of Meat Products  

• Potential of Biomass Harvest Wastes and Agriculture Industry Co & By-Products as Alternative Food Sources in Ruminant Nutrition  

• Recent Advancements in Precision Livestock Farming and the Early Career Scientists Behind Them  

• Trends in Feeding and Nutrition of Laying Hens: Quality Regulation of Eggs  

• Early Life Nutrition in Poultry 
• Factors Affecting Gastrointestinal Physiology and Health in Ruminants 
• Mitigating the Impact of Animal Production on the Environment: The Ecosystem Integration  
• Silage Production from High Moisture Plant By-Products as Alternative Animal Feeds  
• Seaweeds and Algae in Animal Nutrition  
• Diving Deeper with Metabolomics into Animal Physiology  
• Securing Animal Welfare in Times of Crisis and Animals' End of Life Outside Conventional Slaughter  
• Ingredients for Poultry  
• Animal Responses to Climatic Stress: Strategies for Coping with Harsh Climatic Conditions  
• Precision Livestock Farming in Extensive Systems: A Resource for the Future of Grazing Animal Husbandry  
• Dairy Calf Management and Nutrition  
• Natural Food Ingredients in Enhancing the Quality and Shelf-life of Meat and Meat Analogs  
• Endogenous Bioactive Peptides and the Valorization of Meat Products  
• Nutrient Regulation of Feed Intake, Digestion, Metabolism, Behavior, and Cognition  
• Genetic Factors affecting the Nutritional and Processing Quality of Milk  
• Farmer Mycotoxin Management, Fungal Variation and Mycotoxins in Animal Derived Food Products  
• Understanding Animals' Phenotype through Automatic Behavior Assessment  
• Development, Enhancement, and Deterioration of the Sensory Characteristics of Dairy and Meat Products in Relation to Raw Matter Quality, Processing Operations and Storage/Ripening Conditions  
• The Relationship of Animal Health and Management to Food Safety  
• Biology Meets Technology: Aquatic Animals in Novel and New Aquaculture Production Systems  
• Plant-Derived Compounds in Animal Foods and Food Packaging: Use of Phytochemicals to Improve Nutrition and Stability of Animal Origin Products  
• Embryonic Development, Pregnancy Establishment and Loss  
• Animal-Computer Interaction and Beyond: The Benefits of Animal-Centered Research and Design  
• The Influences of Early Life Experiences on Future Health and Productivity  
• Animal Welfare - Using Bio-sensing Devices to Assess Farm Animal Welfare  
• Minimally Invasive Monitoring of Stress in Farm Animals 
• Animal Welfare Labeling 
• Use of Natural Additives for Ruminant Production 
• Positive Welfare: From Concept to Implementation  
• Environmental Management of Poultry – Advances and Perspectives on Improving Animal Well-being  
• Animal-Environment Interactions 
• Integration of Ethical and Social Aspects into Precision Livestock Farming – Achieving Real-World Impact Responsibly 
• Natural Products in Animal Feed and Production Systems  
• Reformulated Meat Products. Technological Implications, Nutritional Value, Aroma and Sensory Properties

-- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

• Biological sciences and biomedical engineering

• Physiology and immunology

• Reproductive physiology

• Infectious diseases (bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology) and public health

• Animal disease research and diagnostics, surveillance, epidemiology and control

• Animal disease surveillance system and disease dynamics

• Avian medicine and pathology

• Avian diseases and biology

• Swine viruses

• Animal and human health for the environment and development

• Livestock and poultry breeding

• Livestock farming

• Livestock genomics

• Sustainable farm animal breeding and reproduction technology

• Precision dairy and livestock management

• Sustainable pest management

• Herd management and data

• Management and behaviour of farm and companion animals

• Feed processing

• Carcass and meat science

• Chemical toxicology

• Crop and livestock biotechnology

• Nutrition and metabolism

• Nutritional immunology

• Aquaculture science and technology

• Systems translational aquabiology

-- Entomology and Nematology

• Insect behavior

• Insect ecology and sustainable management of arthropod pests of grapes and berries

• Integrated pest management for vegetable crops

• Analysis of genetic variations associated with Bt resistance in insects from the field

• Microscopic monsters: Investigating soil-dwelling fungal insect pathogens in managed grass systems

• Uncovering the role of soil animals in urban ecosystem function

• Sounds of soil

• Plant nematology, animal parasitology, free-living nematology 

• Plant-parasitic nematodes

• Ectoparasites

• Semi-endoparasites

• Migratory endoparasites

• Sedentary endoparasites

• Foliar nematodes

• Stem and bulb nematodes

• Seed gall nematodes

10. Plant Science

-- Plant Biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology)

• Molecular plant stress biology
  
• Integrative plant stress biology 
• Genome-enabled plant biology
• Microbial biology
• Plant molecular biology
• Plant synthetic biology 
• Computational and systems biology
• Plant genomics 
• Plant genetics and epigenetics 
• Pesticides in (organic) agriculture 
• Contemporary crop stress research
• Plant defense mechanism
• Stress tolerance gene selection
• Plant molecular farming 
• Plant physiology for crop production and sustainable agriculture 
• Heat stress physiology
• Plant breeding and cultivar development
• Plant breeding & genetics
• Plant breeding and molecular breeding 
• AgriGenomics and plant breeding
• Crop genomics
  
• Crop molecular breeding
  
• Crop genetic engineering
• Plant lipid science
• Plant growth regulation 
• Plant water relations  
• Solute transport in plants  
• Ion homeostasis  
• Water and nutrient use efficiencies in plants  
• Photosynthesis research  
• Plant molecular genetics
  
• Plant cell and tissue culture
• Plant insect interaction
  
• Plant resistant to insects
• Plant hormone regulation 
• Plant molecular farming
• PLant propagation 
• Nanotechnology and plant sciences 

-- Plant Physiology

• Plant physiology and plant biochemistry
• Plant and Forest Physiology and Biochemistry
• Plant physiological responses to abiotic and biotic stress 
• Molecular plant physiology  
• Use of exogenous protectants in improving plant physiology 
• Crop management and physiology 
• Plant stress physiology
• Seed and transplant physiology
• Fruit physiology
• Flower physiology

-- Plant Pathology and Microbiology

• Agricultural science and agricultural biotechnology 

• Plant ecology and agro- diversity

• Plant biotechnology and tissue culture

• Plant genetics and molecular biology of plant
• Transgenic plants 

• Phytochemicals

• Mycology and phycology

• Plant pathology and plant-microbe biology 

• Plant morphology and plant metabolism 

• Plant tissue culture and plant biotechnology 
• Molecular markers in plants: concepts and applications 

• Plant pathology and plant microbe biology
• Plant growth and development 
• Microbial genomics
• Functional genomics
• Pathogens
• Molecular and cellular plant-microbe interactions
• Plant molecular biology & virology 
• Biology and epidemiology of foliar pathogens
• Plant cross-protection (using genetic, molecular, cellular, biochemical, genomic, and proteomic approaches)
• Plant disease management
• Image-based detection of plant diseases: from classical machine learning to deep learning
• Plant resistance to insects
• Plant-insect interaction
• Next generation plant image processing algorithms
• Gene-deletor technology
• Viticulture and enology

-- Horticulture Science

• Horticulture (sustainable landscapes, fruits, and vegetables) 
• Landscapes, gardens, and urban horticulture
• Ornamental horticulture
• Horticultural crop production and management (Floriculture/Greenhouses, Fruits, Vegetables, Specialty Crops, Nursery, Controlled Environments Production, Weed Science, Substrates) 
• Plant breeding, genetics and genomics
• Plant and postharvest physiology
• Vegetable physiology, production, and quality
• Pollination
• Community food systems and ggroecology 
• Genetics of flower bulbs

• Flower crop cultivation and management
  
• Horticultural crop breeding 
• Horticulture and landscaping
• Invasive plant species in all environments 
• Gardening and disease
• Medicinal and aromatic plant sciences
• Plant medicine
• Herbal medicine research
• Micro/Nanofabrication of Chinese medicine

-- Fungal Biology 

• Fungal biotechnology
• Economic importance of fungi
• Mycology and mushroom science
• Fungal genomics and evolution
• Fungal pathogenesis
• Fungal physiology and metabolism
• Fungal secondary metabolites and mycotoxins
• Fungi-animal interactions
• Fungi-plant interactions
• Marine and freshwater fungi

-- Seaweed Farming

• Growth and development control 
• Life-cycle, genetics and breeding 
• Diseases 
• Biorefinery and fine chemical production 
• Ecological and environmental aspects of field cultures
• Social and economic dimensions of seaweed farming
• Nutritional value and consumption regulations

11. Seed Science, Weed Science

-- Seed Biology and Seed Physiology

• Seed science
• Seed physiology
  
• Seed and nursery
• The evolution of seeds
• Double fertilization
• Cell cycle regulation during seed development
• Regulation of gene expression during seed development: transcriptomics
• Regulation of gene expression during seed development: proteomics
• Hormonal regulation of seed development

-- Weed Biology and Managment

• Weed science
• Weed biology
• Weed ecology & management
• Weed biology and ecology in agroecosystems
• Weed management from the ground up
• Weed biology and control 
• Population and spatial biology, Modelling, Genetics, Diversity, Parasite
• Weed biology and ecology
• Integrated weed management (IWM)
• Herbicides and herbicide resistance
• Invasive weeds and climate change
• New technologies -New ways to deal with weeds 
• Taxonomy and ecology
• Cropping systems
• Integrated management systems
• Conservation tillage
• Transgenic crop tolerance
• Precision technology

12. The Energy and Agriculture Nexus 

• Agrivoltaics
• Utilization of clean and renewable energy resources (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, etc.)
• Bioenergy and bioproducts from renewable sources
  
• Renewable biocomposite materials
• Biofuels
  
• Biomass and renewable energy
• Biodigesters for waste treatment
  
• Algal physiology 
• Algal molecular biology
• Algae production
• Bio-butanol production
• BioSeparations
• Nanocellulose
• Cellulose synthesis
  
• Anaerobic digestion
  
• Biopolyols and polyurethane
• Integrated farming and bioenergy
• Renewable energy and sustainable agriculture
• Fermentation/Bioprocessing: bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste commodities into value added products
• Smart grid and smart grid security
• Artificial intelligence in power systems
• Power system stability, control, and optimization
• Building energy
  
• Building integrated photovoltaic systems
  
• Next-gener
• ciency measures for buildings
  

• Power and machinery

13. Marine Science, Fish Biology and Wildlife, Fisheries Science and Management

-- Fish Biology and Wildlife, Fisheries Science and Management

• Fish biology and research
• Shrimp immune system
  
• Host/pathogen interaction in shrimp and fish
  
• CryobFish
• Physiology and ecologyiology
• Fishing technology 
  
• Fishery oceanography and GIS
• Genetics and breeding
• Fisheries resource conservation and management 
• Fish population analysis
• The future of fishes and fisheries in the changing oceans

14. Soil Science

• Soil regeneration
• Soil and water resources conservation
• Soil-water environment and ecosystem
• Application of environmental biotechnology in soil and groundwater bioremediation 
• Soil science and Plant Nutrition
• Crop and soil sciences
• Soil fertility 
• Soil carbon research
• Soil management
• Soil compaction: causes, effects and control
• Soil physics and soil chemistry 
• Environmental biophysics 
• Soil fertility/plant nutrition
• Soil genesis/classification/pedology
• Soil ecology, waste management & environmental microbiology
• Soil microbial genomics & evolutionary biology
• Pedology
• Pedometrics
• Plant-soil interactions
• Soil management
• Soil organic matter dynamics and carbon sequestration
• Soil pollution & remediation 
• Soil chemistry
• Soil biogeochemistry & nutrient Cycling
• Soil biology, ecosystems and biodiversity
• Soil microbiology 
• Soils and human health
• Soilborne pathogens
• Green building
• Hydroponics
• Horticultural engineering
• Controlled environment agriculture engineering
• Rooftop greening
• Vertical farming (Urban farming)
  
• Urban agriculture
• Nanoclay: the liquid turning desert to farmland

15. Water in Agriculture, Hydrology, Water Resources and Management, and Water Security

-- Hydrology

• Hydrology and hydroclimatology
• Hydro-hazard simulations
• Climate change hydrology
• Groundwater hydrology
• Stochastic hydrology
• Hydrology meteorology
  
• Heuristic algorithms and water resources management
• Land hydrological processes
  
• Hydrogeochemical models
• Water conservation and conjunctive management of water resources
• Nonpoint source pollution control
  
• Assessment of water availability including climate variability and impacts 
• Water quality in the distribution system
• Interaction of atmospheric, surface waters and groundwater
• Well hydraulics and groundwater management
• Water hazard mitigation and associate managements
• River flow and reservoir management
  
• Sustainable watershed management
• Hydrology & wetlands

-- Hydrology and Remote Sensing 

• Applications of GIS in hydrology
• Remote sensing of hydrological processes: modelling and applications
• Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial hydrology 
• Machine learning and remote sensing in hydrology
• Realtime drought monitoring with satellite remote sensing
• Remote sensing for floods

-- Hydroinformatics

• Analytical Hierarchy Process
• Decision Analysis
• Ecological Economics
• Waste Management
• Energy Policy
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Management
• Decision-Support System

-- Smart Irrigation

• Precision agriculture and precision irrigation
• Precision irrigation methods and their management
• Sensor-based irrigation scheduling and application
• Crop water stress detection

-- Wastewater and Recycle

• Wastewater and recycle
• Biological treatment processes and wastewater reclamation for TFT-LCD wastewaters
  
• Biological wastewater treatment
• Biological treatment proceses in drinking water system
• Agricultural wastewater treatment
• Microbial communities and their performance in biological nutrient removal system
• Biocatalysis for water treatment and reuse
• Food processing wastewater treatment
• Fate and transport of chemicals in hydrologic systems
• Fate and control of pollutants in soils and water
• Fate of emerging contaminants in biological wastewater treatment systems
• The application of membrane processes for water treatment
• Water treatment technology for high-tech industry 

-- Land and Water Resources Engineering

• Water resources engineering
• Water resources Database and GIS
• Application of GIS data In ground water data determination
• Water resources and natural hazard protection
• Soil and water engineering
• ronmental soil sciences (biogeochemistry, hydrology, and plant-soil interactions)

• Water resources management (hydrology, irrigation, drainage, water quality)

• Sustainable soil and water resources  
• Intelligent irrigation

• Canal irrigation

• Drip irrigation

• Design of application for curing and irrigation

• Water quality management of rooftop rainwater harvesting system