Stuart Styles is Director of the Irrigation Training and Research Centre (ITRC) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and is also a Professor in the Cal Poly Bio Resource and Agricultural Engineering Department. He teaches water resources classes for Cal Poly and numerous short courses for irrigation professionals through the ITRC. His current research interests include flow measurement technologies, irrigation system performance and irrigation modernisation. Dr Styles has three decades of field experience in irrigation as a consultant and engineer. He is a Registered Civil Engineer in California with degrees from Cal Poly and a Doctorate in Engineering from UC Davis, California. Dr Styles has worked on strawberry research for the last five years. He has done extensive work looking at the impact of salinity and reduced water applications on strawberry transplants.
