Dr. Saseendran S. Anapalli received his PhD in Soil and Crop Sciences from Colorado State University, USA, and another PhD in Water Resources from Jawaharlal Technological University, India. He is a Research Agronomist at USDA-ARS. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (2021) and recipient of the Soil Science Society of the America Ahuja Agricultural System Modeling Award (2021). He received the Outstanding Scientist of Indian Origin Award from the Association of Agricultural Scientists of Indian Origin (2019). Dr. Anapalli and his team received the USDA-ARS Superior Technology Transfer Award (2006), Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (2007), and the Colorado Governor’s High Impact Climate Change Award (2012). He has served as section chair for Climatology and Modeling, Chair of Model Applications in Field Research, Global Climate Change, Agroclimatology and Agronomic Modeling, and Evapotranspiration Measurement and Modeling communities of the American Society of Agronomy.