Vertical Resolutions provides end to end services for fields of agriculture and natural resources. Specialty includes modeling crop, forest, wetland and soil health through remote sensing data. By combining meteorology data, we provide digital agriculture strategies to operate farmland cost and time efficiently as well as to monitor/restore ecosystem dynamics.

Oatman Flats Ranch is the first Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) farm in the US Southwest to connect the farm and surrounding ecosystem and to cultivate regenerative organic heritage grains. The harvested grains are directly supplied to its affiliate, the Oatman Farms, who then produces high nutritious value added consumer products.

Oatman Farms™ is a fearless food company with a mission to revitalize and sustain family farms in hot and dry desert environments, including our own Oatman Flats Ranch, the Arizona farm that has been in my family for four generations.Our farm has been a vital gathering place for thousands of years, and a recent witness to the desertification and degradation of American farmland. We use regenerative, organic farming practices, grow heritage crops adapted to our soil and climate, and work with chefs and bakers to craft delicious products showcasing the purposefully-selected organic grains we grow at Oatman Flats.

Arizona SOL L3C is a first-generation farmers owned entity reimagining how underserved could access land and capital to restore the health of people and planet. Our mission is to Save Our Land and Support Out Labor.

Project: the Landscape Evolution ObservatoryDissertation: “Geochemical Transformations During Incipient Soil Forming Process in Basalt”• Project Lead in Biogeochemistry/Hydrochemistry division of an interdisciplinary team modeling the world largest controlled Earth system dynamic using ~5500 sensor data at the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO)• Installed and controlled 2000+ automated real-time in-situ sensors and aqueous sample collection systems• Designed and managed five (5) major experiments as part of the first phase of the $7,000,000 LEO project • Designed a novel ultrafiltration method to separate concentrates and filtrates (MWCO. 3K, 5K, 10K, and 100K Da.) of geochemical aqueous sample• Calibrated composition reduction curves for each chemical constituent to improve the physiochemical stability of ultrafiltration membrane prior to ultrafiltration application• Synthesized options for the Biosequencing function factorial model during pedogenic process using pore water and discharge water solution chemistry as proxies from a plant-free to plant-established transitioned basaltic sloping lysimeter • Investigate seasonal effect on temporal contributions of colloids to solute transport in discharge water using filtration and ultrafiltration techniques• Modeled thermodynamic stabilities of neo-formed secondary precipitates to link with fluid age function and transit time in space using LEO bigPERTH pore water sample analysis during hydrochemically altered incipient soil formation • Designed an excavation protocol to investigate the slope, lateral, and depth influences on hydrological, geochemical and microbialogical properties of centimeter scaled samples in a sloping lysimeter during incipient basalt weathering• Derived partial mass balance equations to extrapolate internal closed-system chemical variations and numerically resolved deformational decay rate of mass transport during incipient basalt pedogenic processes

Project title: “Sustainable Vertical Farming Using Abandoned Shopping Mall”• Proposed project idea and outlined design concept for the senior design team• Mentored four students to tackle challenges encountered during the design process, such as space utilization for maximum growing capacity, PID control design, nutrient inputs versus optimal plant yields simulation, non-linear analysis of solar electric & thermal generation and storage to achieve 100% energy demands

• Instruct scientific methods and data interpretations to K-12 educators and students during mountain programs at UA SkyCenter, Mt. Lemmon Steward Observatory and city programs at designated schools in Tucson Unified School District, Flowing Wells Unified School District and Sunnyside School District, Tucson, Arizona• Provide guidelines on effective scientific communications to prospective Sky School instructors during annual orientation• Implement scientific data illustrations by auditory and palpation methods to scholars who are visually impaired during Project-Based Opportunities & Exploration of Mentorship (PEOM)

Instructor - Introduction to Soil Science Laboratory• Supervised undergraduate student preceptors to setup equipment, organize teaching supplies and clean up wastes for all three laboratory sections weekly• Instructed principle concepts and guided student to complete in-class group exercises for two laboratory sections weekly• Organized field trips including “morphology and profile in soil pedons”, “in-situ soil moisture and temperature analysis” and “factor and mechanisms of soil erosion” for all three laboratory sections• Redesigned the field trip “in-situ soil moisture and temperature analysis” to maximize hand-on contents in collaboration with Tucson Village Farm• Composed four soil series across the State of Arizona as departmental reference/teaching soilsTeaching Assistant - Introduction to Soil Science • Evaluated and provided feedback to students on pre-lab assignments, post-lab reports, lecture homework, online quizzes, mid-term and final exams for all lecture and laboratory sections• Assisted the teaching professor during in-class exercises, pop-up quizzes and exams• Co-instructed integrated learning-based lectures emphasizing collaborative approaches among students and instructors in non-traditional classroom settings

• Facilitated lectures, field trips and outreach activities for U.S. Native American tribal water resource technicians in collaboration with Bureau of Indian Affair (BIA), United States Department of the Interior

Research Report “Assessment of the impact of aeolian drift of heavy metal contaminants on surface of soils and plants to organic farmland within a semi-arid environment - a preliminary study in Pima County, Arizona”• Led 7 undergraduate students completing a student-initiated research project for US EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) University Challenge under a Junior research mentor• Assessed the potential fate and transport of pesticides and other contaminants of concern and whether these chemicals are impacting organic farms in Southern Arizona• Analyzed potential concentrations of contaminants of concern in the identified vulnerable organic farms using field samples• Utilized research findings to communicate consumers and certified organic produce farmers who may be impacted by contaminant drift from nearby TRI facilities

• Coordinated Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU), STEM Teacher and Researcher (STAR), Summer Science Academy (SSA) and Arizona Center for STEM Teachers (ACST) summer programs in 2015 and 2016• Managed “What if” program during 2015 – 2016 academic year• Guided AZ Cub Scout Pack 168 young students to construct an eco-house model emphasizing solar energy, water harvesting and home efficiency

• Reconfigured the mechanical mechanism with improved solar tracking range and maximized the heat transfer efficiency with Fresnel lens & aluminum-based heating source of a GPS enabled self-tracking solar oven • Advanced productivity of Multi-effect Distillation (MED) based solar thermal desalination system for removal of saline/contaminant during domestic water purification process

• Analyzed Chloride tracers on Thermofisher Dionex ICS 5000 Ion Chromatograph and δ2H using DLT-100 Laser Spectrometer for theoretical framework of transit time distribution and StorAge Selection functions in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland • Examined streamflow generation mechanism in collaboration with University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada• Installed anemometers (DVI7911, Davis Instrument and CSAT3, Campbell Scientific), photon flux quantum sensors (SQ-110, Apogee) and net radiometers (CNR4, Kipp&Zonen) on pre-fabricated masts with mechanical winching system • Performed rainfall calibrations and obtained spatial rainfall distribution with 2-stage irrigation circuit (Multi-1 and PM3000) on watershed-scaled controlled artificial hillslope models

• Assessed the dynamic of plant available heavy metals in phytostabilized mine tailings using DTPA single extraction methods, Synchrotron X-ray techniques and FTIR analysis• Quantified reducible inorganic sulfur (RIS) of acid mine tailings using a novel diffusion-based chromium-reducible sulfur (CRS) method • Prepared aqueous extracts of mine tailing samples to examine depth-dependent enrichment of metal(loid)s As, Pb and Zn via a 6-step sequential extraction procedure• Evaluated moisture release curve and water potential of weakly structured and instable mine tailings using Hyprop tensiometer• Joined sampling campaign to collect toxic metalliferous mine-tailing at Superfund Iron King site, Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona

• Predicted climate variability on interannual and millennial time scales using proxies (i.e. coral reef cores, lake sediment cores, and speleothem water samples) with measurements of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes on Thermo Delta XP plus, Gas Bench II and VG Optima Dual Inlet Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers (IRMS) as well as elemental concentrations of Ca and Sr on ICP-AES. • Sampled and cataloged water drips from speleothem at Cave of the Bells, Coronado National Forest, Arizona• Refurbished GC column of Thermo Delta XP plus, Gas Bench II IRMS

• Obtained aqueous extracts of soil samples via a 4-step sequential extraction method for understanding of Fe/As dynamics and responses to contaminant uptake and groundwater quality in rice fields at Mekong Delta, Cambodia• Prepared aqueous extracts of rice plant shoots via microwave-assisted sodium hydroxide digestion for quantifications of Si uptakes in rice field at Richvale, California

• Sponsored all Yang-En University sporting events and university athletic teams• Networked with manufactures in Fujian and Guangdong regions to contract products and materials