Feb 20, 2023 | Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Deep within our bodies, millions of microbes help digest our food and provide nutrients to keep us healthy. It’s a symbiotic relationship that dates back millennia, when the first bacteria appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago. Ubiquitous in the soil and...
Feb 7, 2023 | CEW Profiles, News, News Releases
Anyone who’s thrown a baseball is familiar with Newton’s First Law: Objects in motion will continue in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. No one understands this concept better than Zack Fishman. A 2019 graduate of the University of Illinois...
Jan 17, 2023 | Campus Sustainability, News, News Releases
Running a marathon, bicycling a century, or swimming 1,500 meters requires a lot of energy. Finding that energy, however, is a different matter entirely. The world’s most elite athletes spend years tinkering with and perfecting exactly how their energy consumption...
Jan 5, 2023 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
A study led by researchers at the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides new insights for quantifying cropland carbon budgets and soil carbon credits, two important metrics for mitigating climate change. The...
Oct 12, 2022 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
A team of Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists was awarded a grant from the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC) to quantify streambank erosion across the state and its contributions to phosphorus (P) loading of surface waters....