Tiffany Messer recently co-authored an article published by ASABE titled, Constructed Wetlands for Water Quality Improvement: A Synthesis on Nutrient Reduction from agricultural Effluents. Read about the wetlands for agriculture article here. Tiffany also recently published an article titled Pesticide Occurrence and Persistence Entering Recreational Lakes in Watersheds of Varying Land Uses via Science Direct. Read about how they assessed pesticide exposure in various land use wetlands here.
Santosh Pitla was highlighted by Agrinews for his insight into how robots will give farmers a helping hand in the future. “We are using drones to fly over fields to observe crop conditions to look at corn plants and for weed identification” Santosh said. Read more.
The CAST committee, led by Santosh Pitla reached six ideas for the future if autonomous bots become an integral part of agriculture. Robotic manipulators are now being seen in greenhouses, livestocks systems and more. Learn more.
Mike Boehm shares about Tami Brow-Brandl's system that can monitor pig heath in an IANR KRVN Interview. Listen to the podcast here.
Francisco Munoz-Arriola was a guest on Tech Refactored, Nebraska Governance & Technology Center's podcast. Featured in Episode 7, hosts and guests break down what water law is.
Nicole Iverson and Yufeng Ge were mentioned in the College of Engineering's 2020 - year in review. Nicole for leading a team that earned a $1.77 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to make nitric oxide sensors easy to use and to utilize them to study both healthy and diseased cells. Yufeng for receiving a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.