Steven R. Evett is a Research Soil Scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas. Dr. Evett teams with internal and external researchers and action agencies to use field measurements, electronic sensing and automation systems, and energy and water balance models to study crop water use in irrigated and dryland farming systems, irrigation methods and automation as they affect crop water productivity, as well as water content sensing methods used to control irrigation and to quantify crop water use. In addition to research locations in the USA, he has been involved in collaborative research projects in the Middle East and Uzbekistan on crop water use, irrigation scheduling and soil water measurement; and he has worked in China, Egypt, Jordan and the USA to design, build and use weighing lysimeters to measure crop water use. Since 2003, Dr. Evett has been the ARS research coordinator for the Middle East Regional Irrigation Management Information Systems (MERIMIS) Project, which has research and extension partners in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority . He is a graduate of the University of Idaho and the University of Arizona, and was raised on an irrigated dairy farm in Southern Idaho. He is author/coauthor of 291 publications, including 26 book chapters and three patents. In 2017 he serves as President-elect of the American Society of Agronomy.