Award-Winning Innovation in Irrigation: Kendall DeJonge’s ET Breakthrough
Sep 30, 2025•55 min•Ep. 278
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Episode description
Kendall DeJonge, a USDA Research Agricultural Engineer, discusses his team's award-winning work on standardizing evapotranspiration (ET) software for water resource management. While ET methods have long been documented, Kendall highlights the lack of unified, publicly available code—until now. His team overcame major challenges to create collaborative tools using Python, chosen for its readability, extensive libraries, and broad applicability.
Podcast Recorded September 25. 2025
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