Rick is involved with the development of the OpenET eeMETRIC application and its implementation and testing. He provides advisement and review of many facets of the OpenET system. Rick has been a primary developer of the original METRIC model since 2000 and is a co-leader for the development of the globally applicable Google EEFlux version of METRIC https://eeflux-level1.appspot.com. Rick was a member of the NASA/USGS Landsat Science Team from 2007-2017 and is a member of the NASA ECOSTRESS Science Team. Rick was lead author of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization publication “Crop Evapotranspiration” that serves as an international practice standard and that has been cited more than 45,000 times in the literature. He is coauthor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Practices Manual 70 “Evapotranspiration and Irrigation Water Requirements” published in 1990 and 2016. Rick provides advice on ET and irrigation hydrology to a number of western states and works at national and international levels on standardization of calculation technologies. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State University and University of Idaho, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Idaho. He has authored 175 peer reviewed journal papers and chapters.