RESEARCH PROFILES

Ian Goller: Carbon Emission Accountant

Sep 13, 2019 | Agroforestry for Food Project, iSEE Research, RESEARCH PROFILES

“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

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, 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...

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...