Jun 28, 2022 | Agrivoltaics Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES
Paul Mwebaze likes American football, European football, and agrivoltaics. Let’s break that down if it’s confusing: the first is football, the second is soccer, and the third is integrating agricultural crops and solar panels on the same piece of land. Mwebaze...
May 26, 2022 | I-FARM Project, iSEE Research, News Releases
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is funding a new collaboration between two institutes and a research center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that will create an integrated farm of the future in the U.S. Midwest. Titled...
May 4, 2022 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
University of Illinois researchers were part of a multi-institutional team that has significantly improved the performance of numerical predictions for agricultural nitrous oxide emissions using novel modeling that combines artificial intelligence and process-based...
Mar 22, 2022 | iSEE Research
Research Menu Main Page: Major Initiatives CABBI: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation I-GUIDE: Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment SCAPES: Sustainably Colocating Agricultural and Photovoltaic...
Mar 21, 2022 | News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
There is much more carbon stored in Earth’s soil than in its atmosphere. A significant portion of this soil carbon is in organic form (carbon bound to carbon), called soil organic carbon (SOC). Notably, unlike the inorganic carbon in soils, the amount of SOC, and how...
Jan 25, 2022 | RADAR-X Project, RESEARCH PROFILES
Vikram Kumar was always a bright student in elementary and high school, but he felt constrained by the lack of creativity he could engage in when doing schoolwork. Wanting instead to confront questions with undetermined answers, Kumar naturally gravitated toward...