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Using Data to Boost Drought Resilience in the Caribbean
…design and deploy low-cost soil moisture and plant stress-monitoring sensors that transmit information to a cloud-based computing platform. This technology will enable improved near-term forecasts of drought conditions, alerting farmers…
The Future of Fibers May Be Local
…must compete with synthetic, low-cost competitors. However, as interest in locally produced goods grows, small flock fiber farms may have an opportunity to thrive by influencing development of specialized textile…
Sounds of Soil
Root-feeding insects reduce belowground plant productivity and disrupt soil carbon cycling, ultimately eroding plant and soil health. Current methods for monitoring these insects are time-consuming, cost-prohibitive and often unreliable. Researchers…
No Fish Tale: Feed of the Future
…byproducts for use at nearby fish farms. The new feed system could eventually replace fishmeal, reducing the aquaculture industry’s feed cost–and carbon footprint. Investigators: Eugene Won, Helene Marquis, Joe Regenstein…
Hydropower and Ecosystem Services
…for individual dams—but what is the combined cost of the hydropower explosion for biodiversity, fisheries, navigation, and other benefits provided by intact rivers? This multidisciplinary team will develop a framework…
Coffee: What’s Fair?
How much does sustainable coffee cost to grow? Fair-trade certification gives consumers peace of mind that the supply chain meets a standard of fairness for workers and farmers—but small coffee…
Fighting Bacteria with Better Dairy Practices
…milk) to detect antibiotic residues and resistance genes that reach calves at their first feeding. Low-risk cows might do just as well with no treatment—making dairy production more cost-efficient and…
Call for Joint Research Proposals: EDF/IIF 2024
…and JUSTIFICATION (required) (Use template 2024-EDF-CU-Template.XLSX | Save budget as “2024-EDF-CU-YourLastName.XLSX”) Proposers may request funding up to $100K (direct costs at Cornell) for one year. We are expecting most research…
Wind Energy, More Efficiently
…region. The team will develop and deploy a cost-efficient new measurement technology that uses data from seismographs to better quantify wind loading on turbines, optimize wind farm design, and monitor…
Small Molecules to Vanquish Parasitic Worms
…young pigs, raising the cost of this popular protein source. Cornell researchers will apply cutting-edge chemical technology to discover novel small molecules, called ascarosides, in Trichuris worms. An ascaroside-based vaccine…