We use Technology Readiness Levels in my lab. Helps structure thinking and expectations for tech.
It was a pleasure sharing about this work scaling real-time geospatial systems @UMNHorticulture@CFANS@GEMSInformatics@UMNresearch#agtech
TRLs >> https://t.co/TIN1aCFhHI
Don't miss this issue of Hole Notes featuring Bryan Runck's (@runckb) article "WinterTurf Environmental Sensing Going Global: Understanding the Drivers of Winter Kill"!
Let’s be a bit cautious.
AI Foundation models in ag *could* be revolutionary.
They could also be extremely bad, providing reasonable-looking but wrong and unverifiable predictions.
Slow and steady wins the race.
https://t.co/Dv1SrLIvZB
Working on a chapter on Plant Cognition for my book "Liquid brains". Germination is one of the most exciting phenomena, which involves decision-making and dealing with future uncertainties. Overwhelmed by the diversity of seeds, biological time capsules that compute their worlds.
Which ag soils can sequester a lot of carbon? And how much can they sequester? ARS scientists & partners improve these predictions with data-augmented public databases. A crucial tactic for mitigating climate change and improving food security. Learn more: https://t.co/3pIdFclP1W
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Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated
📄 https://t.co/Akdx9QBgRt @sieg_SAS@runckb @XinyiTuSoil @RegisChikowo
Colorado State University will host a 10 day short course “Bayesian Models for Ecological Data” from June 5 – June 16, 2023. There is no tuition and travel costs will be partially covered. See https://t.co/iApsHUd4BR for details and how to apply. Please share widely!
Taking a look at data coming in from recently deployed #WinterTurf sensor nodes. New interface for viewing data is great--excellent work by @GEMSInformatics sensing team @runckb@adama222 and others
Finally got the sensors in the ground for the 2022/23 winter kill study! Looking forward to seeing all the data in the coming years. @UMNTurf Thank you again to @erictwatkins and his team for this opportunity to participate!
To measure change in soil #carbon: sample T-zero vs ~5yrs, right? Or use space-for-time design?
Turns out there’s a problem w that..
@ESlessarev describes two artifacts that exaggerate importance of initial SOC stocks https://t.co/8sWhoZ2aFS
A big issue for soil #CDR calcs??
We're celebrating today!
The first round of v3 System Flight loggers and sensors has arrived. Designed by @adama222; manufactured by @CaltronicsEMS.
Used to collect data with: @Irrigation_UMN, @UMNTurf, pesticide drift risk, and weather.
Funding @mnenrtf, @USDA_NIFA, @UMNews
Here is my deep-dive on weather - an attempt to demystify the weather industry and weather observations from space.
3 infographics to help digest the content:
#1 An overview of the weather operating stack - including the public and private sector (as always, non-exhaustive)