Lorence Oki

Lorence Oki currently works at the Department of Plant Sciences and Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis. Lorence does research in Environmental Horticulture focusing on issues in Irrigation and Water Management. One of the research group's current projects is 'Clean WateR3 - Reduce, Remediate, Recycle', a project that explores a wide range of topics in nursery water management. The UC Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials determines the water use of plants for water budgeting purposes. The nitrogen budgeting project quantifies the fate of applied nitrogen in nursery production. Slow sand filters are effective biological treatment method in removing plant pathogens and other pollutants in captured runoff water to prepare the water for reuse in irrigation.