RESEARCH PROFILES

Ilsa Kantola: Sustainable Farming has its Roots in Soil

Sep 26, 2018 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

“From an early age, I was aware of farming going on around me, and the importance of land and soil to everything in our lives.” Originally from Sacramento, a vibrant city nestled at the top of California’s Central Valley, iSEE Postdoctoral Research Associate Ilsa...

Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes

Nov 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stormwater and Mosquito Control Project

Meet Allison Parker — Taking the Battle to the Mosquitoes The saying goes that in war you must “know your enemy” to defeat it, and that’s exactly the aim of Allison Parker’s research. She’s a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology at the University of Illinois, and...

Meet Sam Lindgren — Selling Sun Buckets to the Next Generation

Oct 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Stored Solar Stove Project

Meet Sam Lindgren — Selling Sun Buckets to the Next Generation Sam Lindgren is a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and a member of iSEE’s Stored Solar Stove research team. While her teammates work to technically perfect the “Sun Bucket”...

Kavya Kannan: From Computation to Meaningful Biology

Mar 1, 2017 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Bios, RESEARCH PROFILES

Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her screen, you’d never know that her computer — a manmade mixture of metals and complex engineering — allows her to enhance one of the earth’s most...

Under the microscope with Kelley Goncalves

Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project

Kelley Goncalves is a Ph.D. student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, so her part in the Smart Water Disinfection project is mostly under the microscope. The Smart Water project as a whole seeks a more detailed understanding of how viruses become inactivated...

Bright ideas for water disinfection: Meet Bernardo Vazquez Bravo

Dec 21, 2016 | iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES, Smart Water Disinfection Project

Bernardo Vazquez Bravo is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering focusing on drinking water disinfection. As part of the Smart Water Disinfection project, he is working to understand more precisely how widely-used modern virus inactivating methods like chlorine...