RESEARCH PROFILES
Mike Masters: Deeply Rooted in Sustainability, the U of I
Mike Masters, Field Research Specialist for the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M), is no stranger to sustainability or to the University of Illinois — in fact, he’s been with both since the very beginning. “I’ve been around forever!” Masters...
Ghana Challa: Crop Modeling Truly a ‘Growth’ Industry
Ghana Challa, a Postdoc on the Crops in silico (Cis) team and member of Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón’s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has an incredible vision for the future of farming. “My vision is this: In 10 or 20 years,...
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...