Aug 12, 2019 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, 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...
Dec 16, 2016 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Diana Kapanzhi is a Masters student studying Environmental Engineering with a focus on Environmental and Water Resources Systems Analysis. Her task at the Agroforestry for Food research site is to perform an emissions life-cycle assessment — a beginning-to-end tally...
Dec 16, 2016 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Erik Stanek is a Masters student in Illinois’ Crop Sciences program. As a member of the Agroforestry for Food project funded by iSEE, he’s determining the role mixed-species farms of trees and shrubs may play in the future of central Illinois agriculture — and in...
Dec 16, 2016 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Kevin Wolz is a Ph.D. student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (PEEC). At the Agroforestry for Food site, a project seed-funded by iSEE, he is most interested in the possible benefits of...
Dec 16, 2016 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Ron Revord is a Ph.D. student studying plant breeding and genetics. Specifically, he focuses on the development of a new variety of hazelnut tree that will thrive and be profitable in mixed-species agricultural systems. A featured plant in many of the test plots at...
Dec 16, 2016 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
William Eddy is a post-doctoral associate and member of Professor Wendy Yang’s lab group in Plant Biology. He finished his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota in May 2015. As part of the Agroforestry for Food team, William is...