RESEARCH PROFILES
Ian Goller: Carbon Emission Accountant
“I’m kind of like an accountant, except instead of accounting for money, I’m accounting for carbon emissions.” That’s how Ian Goller explains his work with the Agroforestry for Food (A4F) team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to...
Eric Wolske: Just Keeping Digging
Eric Wolske, a member of Illinois’ Agroforestry for Food (A4F) team, has found a simple way to explain the project’s work: “Agroforestry is growing crops with trees. That is the most basic level.” Originally from the Champaign-Urbana area, Wolske decided to go...
AJ Christensen: Visualizing a Sustainable Future
AJ Christensen has always wanted to use his computer science and graphic design talents in service of a worthy cause. Now, as a programmer in Illinois’ Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) and a member of the Crops in silico research team, his visualizations appear on...Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico
Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico Nov. 29, 2018 “Before finding high-performance computing and scientific visualization, I really didn’t know what area of computer science I wanted to work in.” It might come as a surprise that Colleen...