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...
Apr 15, 2019 | Crops in silico Project, News Releases, 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...
Nov 29, 2018 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Research, News Releases, 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...
Sep 26, 2018 | iSEE Research, News Releases, 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...
Nov 30, 2017 | iSEE Research, News Releases, 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...
Mar 1, 2017 | Crops in silico Project, iSEE Bios, News Releases, RESEARCH PROFILES
Ph.D. Candidate Kavya Kannan confidently sits behind her laptop explaining a series of charts and graphs. By looking at her screen, you’d never know that her computer — a manmade mixture of metals and complex engineering — allows her to enhance one of the earth’s most...