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Size of the Prize: Establishing Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials (TNC)
…the availability of clean water. The researchers will initially target select countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, and Guinea as well as the African Development Bank and The World Bank. Cornell…
Crowdsourcing Rangeland Ecology Data
…pilot project will engage migrant herders to collect on-the-spot data about the vegetation and water conditions they find. The citizen scientists’ breaking information—submitted by mobile phone—will supplement satellite imagery as…
Greening Greenhouses with Yard Waste
…will provide year-round heat without fossil fuels, while the biochar enriches soil and may also filter fishpond water. For local growers, it’s a step toward a smaller carbon footprint and…
Gisselle Vila Benites
…such as artisanal and small-scale mining formalization, mineral traceability, and water governance. For her postdoctoral project, she collaborates with Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Southern Amazon and local partner Instituto…
Sustainable Production of Staple Leafy Green Vegetable Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
…for smallholder farmers. Cornell researchers are transferring resistance to black rot, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris, into sukuma wiki by crossing the plant with resistant cabbage. Working with African…
Shanthanu Krishna Kumar (Horticulture)
Shanthanu Krishna Kumar is a Ph.D. student in the section of Horticulture, School of Integrative Plant Science, working with Gregory Peck. His goal is to enhance biodiversity in cider apple…
Heath Cook (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Heath is a Ph.D. student working with marine fishes in Willy Bemis’ lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in marine biomonitoring and developing methods…
AI-aided Drilling for Deep Geothermal Development
For more than 15 years, a multidisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has been working toward developing a deep geothermal system to heat the university’s Ithaca campus. To support that goal,…
Maria Gannett (Horticulture)
Maria Gannett is a Ph.D. student in Horticulture, working with Dr. Jenny Kao-Kniffin and Dr. Toni DiTommaso. She is interested in how manipulating the soil chemical environment can alter plant…
Joshua Garcia (Horticulture)
Joshua Garcia is a PhD student in the School of Integrative Plant Science working in Dr. Jenny Kao-Kniffin’s lab. His research focuses on the effect of soil microorganisms on crop…