Directory Information for Joshua Heitman

Department of Soil Science
North Carolina State University
PO Box 7619
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7619

Room: 3410
Office Phone: 919.513.1593
Email josh_heitman@ncsu.edu  
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Specialty: Environmental Soil Physics

Soil is the interface between biological, atmospheric, and geologic systems. Movement of heat, water, and chemical in soil impacts the terrestrial environment at nearly every scale. Research efforts focus on understanding principles of this movement through laboratory and field experiments, development of new measurement techniques, and numerical modeling. Areas of emphasis include (i) coupled soil heat and water transfer, (ii) chemical transport in agricultural systems, and (iii) thermal measurement techniques.

Publications:

  1. Academic
    1. Publications
      1. Referred Journals
        • Heitman, J.L., and M.J. Vepraskas. 2009. An Example Emphasizing Mass-Volume Relationships for Problem Solving in Soils. J. Nat. Resour. Life Sci. Ed. 38:140-143.
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  3. Research
    1. Publications
      1. Refereed Journals
        • Davis, D., R. Horton, J.L. Heitman, T. Ren. 2009. Wettability and Hysteresis Effects on Water Sorption in Relatively Dry Soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 38. In press.
        • Vepraskas, M.J., J.L. Heitman, and R.E. Austin. 2009. Future Directions for Hydropedology: Quantifying Impacts of Global Change on Land Use. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 13:1427-1438.
        • DeSutter, T.M, T.J. Sauer, T.B. Parkin, and J.L. Heitman. 2008. A Continuous, Closed Loop Measurement System for Soil CO2 and Prospects for Its Application to the Gradient Flux Approach. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 72:126-134.
        • Gieselman, H., J.L. Heitman, and R. Horton. 2008. Effect of a Hydrophobic Layer on the Upward Movement of Water Under Surface Freezing Conditions. Soil Sci. 173:297-305.
        • Heitman, J.L., R. Horton, T. Ren, I.N. Nassar, and D. Davis. 2008. A Test of Coupled Soil Heat and Water Transfer Prediction Under Transient Boundary Temperatures. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 72:1197-1207.
        • Heitman, J.L., R. Horton, T.J. Sauer, and T.M. DeSutter. 2008. Sensible Heat Observations Reveal Soil Water Evaporation Dynamics. J. Hydrometeor. 9:165-171.
        • Heitman, J.L., X. Xiao, R. Horton, and T.J. Sauer. 2008. Sensible heat measurements indicating depth and magnitude of subsurface soil water evaporation. Water Resour. Res. 44:W00D05
        • Sauer, T.J., O.D. Akinyemi, P. Thery, J.L. Heitman, T.M. DeSutter, and R. Horton. 2008. Evaluation of a new, perforated heat flux plate design. Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer 35:800-804.
        • Heitman, J.L., A. Gaur, R. Horton, D.B. Jaynes, and T.C. Kaspar. 2007. Field Measurement of Soil Surface Chemical Transport Properties for Comparison of Management Zones. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:529-536.
        • Heitman, J.L., R. Horton, T. Ren, and T.E. Ochsner. 2007. An Improved Approach for Measurement of Coupled Heat and Water Transfer in Soil Cells. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:872-880.
        • Zhou, J., J.L. Heitman, R. Horton, T. Ren, T.E. Ochsner, L. Prunty, R.P. Ewing, and T.J. Sauer. 2006. Method for Maintaining One-dimensional Temperature Gradients in Unsaturated, Closed Soil Cells. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 70:1303-1309.
        • Kaleita, A., J.L. Heitman, and S.A. Logsdon. 2005. Field Calibration of the Theta Probe for Des Moines Lobe Soils. Applied Eng. Agric. 21:865-870.
        • Pierzynski, G.M., J.L. Heitman, P.A. Kulakow, G.J. Kluitenberg, and J.R. Carlson. 2004. Revegetation of Waste Fly Ash Landfills in a Semi-Arid Environment. J. Range Management. 57:312-319.
        • Heitman, J.L., J.M. Basinger, G.J. Kluitenberg, J.M. Ham, J.M. Frank, and P.L. Barnes. 2003. Field Evaluation of the Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Method for Measuring Soil Water Content. Vadose Zone J. 2:552-560.
        • Kluitenberg, G.J., and J.L. Heitman. 2002. Effect of Forced Convection on Soil Water Content Measurement with the Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Method. p. 275-283. In P.A.C. Raats et al. (ed.) Environmental Mechanics: Water, Mass and Energy Transfer in the Biosphere. Geophys. Monogr. Series, Vol. 129, Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, DC.