RESEARCH PROFILES

Eric Wolske: Just Keeping Digging

Aug 12, 2019 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

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

Apr 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, RESEARCH PROFILES

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

Nov 29, 2018 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

Reading the leaves: Illinois Ph.D. student models crops in silico Nov. 29, 2019 “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...

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...

Feb 12, 2018 | Critical Infrastructure and Transportation Project, RESEARCH PROFILES

Meet Jia Zhong — Modeling a Better Future Most people don’t look to economics to solve issues in sustainability. However, Jia Zhong, a member of the Critical Infrastructure and Transportation project and a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural...

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...