Dr. Benjamin Runkle, P.E.

The Landscape Flux Group

Beatriz Moreno-García

Beatriz Moreno-García

Beatriz is a research assistant professor and former research associate and postdoc in our group, working on the use of decision support tools and field greenhouse gas, water use, and canopy observations to evaluate water-saving practices in rice fields in central-eastern Arkansas.

2025-present: Research Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Biological & Agricultural Engineering
2023-2025: Research associate, University of Arkansas, Landscape Flux Group
2018-2023: Postdoc, University of Arkansas, Landscape Flux Group
PhD, Universidad de Zaragoza and Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, CITA, Spain. Response of paddy rice to fertilization with pig slurry in Mediterranean conditions.
MSc, Engineering of Chemical and Environmental Processes, King Juan Carlos University, School of Experimental Sciences and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
BSc, Environmental Sciences, King Juan Carlos University, School of Experimental Sciences and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
   

Awards

In 2022, Beatriz was honored as the Field to Market Trusted Advisor of the Year, highlighted here.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Sun H, Moreno-García B, Seyfferth AL, Reba M, Drescher GL, Linquist BA, Kongchum M, Runkle B, 2025. Improved Soil Property Prediction Models for Rice Paddies Using Measured Nutrients. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 89, e70152. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70152
  2. Deng Y, Peng B, Guan K, Runkle BRK, Moreno-García B,Wu X, Wang S, Zhou Q, Reba ML (2025). Detecting the onset of rice field inundation in the Lower Mississippi River Basin via Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) satellite time series, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 228, 28-43, doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.07.003.
  3. Kuhn E, Moreno Garcia B, Reba ML, Naithani K., Runkle BRK (2025). Modeling rice leaf area index and canopy height in the US Mid-South Region. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment. 8(2) e70139, https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70139.
  4. Quilez D, Guillén M, Vallés M, Daudén A, Moreno-García B (2025). New Insights into Fertilisation with Animal Manure for Annual Double-Cropping Systems in Nitrate-Vulnerable Zones of Northeastern Spain. Agronomy 15, 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15010142.
  5. Leavitt M, Moreno-García B, Reavis CW, Reba ML, Runkle BRK (2023) The Effect of Water Management and Ratoon Rice Cropping on Methane Emissions and Yield in Arkansas. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 356, 108652, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108652.
  6. Karki S, Adviento-Borbe MaA, Runkle BRK, Moreno-García B, Anders M, Reba ML (2023) Multiyear methane and nitrous oxide emissions in different irrigation management under long-term continuous rice rotation in Arkansas. Journal of Environmental Quality, 52(3) 558-572. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20444
  7. Bellis ES, Hashem AA, Causey JL, Runkle BRK, Moreno-García B, Burns B, Green VS, Burcham TN, Reba ML, Huang X, Detecting intra-field variation in rice yield with UAV imagery and deep learning, Front. Plant Sci. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.716506/abstract
  8. Runkle BRK, Seyfferth AL, Reid MC, Limmer MA, Moreno-García B, Reavis CW, Peña J, Reba ML, Adviento-Borbe MAA, Pinson SRM, Isbell C, 2021. Socio-technical changes for sustainable rice production: rice husk amendment, conservation irrigation, and system changes, Frontiers in Agronomy, 3:741557, doi:10.3389/fagro.2021.741557.
  9. Moreno-García B, Coronel E, Reavis CW, Suvočarev K, Runkle BRK (2021), Environmental sustainability assessment of rice management practices using decision support tools, Journal of Cleaner Production, 128135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128135
  10. Huang X, Runkle BRK, Isbell M, Moreno-García B, McNairn H, Reba ML, Torbick N (2021), Rice inundation using polarimetric UAVSAR data, Earth and Space Science, 8(3), e2020EA001554, doi:10.1029/2020EA001554
  11. Carroll SR, Le KN, Moreno-García B, Runkle BRK, (2020), Simulating Soybean-rice rotation and irrigation strategies in Arkansas, USA Using APEX, Sustainability, 12, 6822, doi:10.3390/su12176822, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/6822/htm
  12. Moreno-García, B., Guillén, M., Quílez, D., 2020. Greenhouse Gas Emissions as Aff ected by Fertilization Type (Pig Slurry vs. Mineral) and Soil Management in Mediterranean Rice Systems, Agronomy 10, 493.
  13. Moreno-García, B., Casterad, M., Guillén, M., Quílez, D., 2018. Agronomic and Economic Potential of Vegetation Indices for Rice N Recommendations under Organic and Mineral Fertilization in Mediterranean Regions. Remote Sensing,10 (12): 1908.
  14. Moreno-García, B., Guillén, M., Quílez, D. 2017. Response of paddy rice to fertilisation with pig slurry in northeast Spain: Strategies to optimise nitrogen use efficiency. Field Crops Research, 208: 44-54.
  15. Maris, S.C., Teira-Esmatges, M.R., Bosch-Serra, A.D., Moreno-García, B., Catalá, M.M. 2016. Effect of fertilizing with pig slurry and chicken manure on GHG emissions from Mediterranean paddies. Science of the Total Environment, 569-570: 306-320.
  16. Quílez, D., Moreno-García, B., Guillén, M., Casterad, M.A. 2015. Organic and mineral fertilization of rice in Aragon. (Fertilización nitrogenada orgánica y mineral del cultivo de arroz en Aragón). Vida rural, 400: 62-68.
  17. Pablos, C., Van Grieken, R., Marugán, J., Moreno, B. 2011. Photocatalytic inactivation of bacteria in a fixed-bed reactor: mechanistic insight by epifluorescence microscopy. Catalysis Today 161(1):133-139