Past News
Big data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes
October 30, 2020
Since carbon sequestration is such an important factor for mitigating climate change, it’s critical to understand the efficacy of reforestation efforts and develop solid estimates of forest carbon storage capacity. However, measuring forest properties can be difficult, especially in places that aren’t easily reachable.
Big data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes
SNOOPIng on our water from space
October 26, 2020
Learn more about how we can determine levels of sub-surface soil moisture…from space. Affiliate and lead of the environmental sensing research cluster Jim Garrison recently had a blog post published about his “Signals of Opportunity” work with NASA.
Purdue Team to Contribute to NSF-Accelerator Project
October 23, 2020
Three Center affiliates recently received funding on the University of Cincinnati-led NSF Accelerator project, “The Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network (UF-OKN): Delivering Flood Information to Any one, Any time, Any where.”
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Center Affiliates receive NSF-CNH2 Grant
October 23, 2020
Bryan Pijanowski and Laura Zanotti received an NSF award for their project on Resilience in Integrated Grassland-Pastoralist Systems.
Deregulatory Approach to the Environment could Impact Indiana
October 21, 2020
Professor of Political Science Leigh Raymond and PCCRC director Jeff Dukes shared in an Indianapolis Star story how the Trump administration’s environmental deregulation and reversal of various rules and regulations might affect Indiana’s air quality.
Deregulatory Approach to the Environment could Impact Indiana
2020 Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Grant
October 21, 2020
Sa Liu, Asst. Professor HSCI, corresponding PI, and her co-project directors Dr. Jennifer Johnson, in the department of Anthropology, and community partner Ms. Deborah Corcoran, Community Outreach Coordinator in Martinsville IN, have received a 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their project “Groundwater Contamination and Health Equity in a Deindustrialized Midwestern Community.” The 3 year project’s goal is to improve how information on exposure risk is produced and consumed to motivate meaningful improvements in health outcomes and health equity in real world communities.
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Grant will help Purdue scientist develop rapid test for produce safety
October 19, 2020
Foodborne illnesses linked to produce make regular news headlines these days. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has investigated outbreaks of Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli related to mushrooms, peaches, onions and clover sprouts just this year. FDA averages more than a dozen similar outbreaks annually. Detecting contamination in the field is difficult because samples must be sent off to labs that can take several days to report results. But Purdue University biological engineer Mohit Verma is developing a test that could take less than an hour and help producers track the source of contamination. His efforts have been boosted by a nearly $400,000 grant from the Center for Produce Safety.
Grant will help Purdue scientist develop rapid test for produce safety
From farm to forest, Songlin Fei has built a career and better life
October 13, 2020
When Songlin Fei was a young boy in China, his parents took him to a local fortune teller to assess his balance in the five elements that many Chinese people believe make up everything in the world. Their son, they were told, had enough fire, earth, water and metal, but he lacked wood. Maybe this wasn’t a surprise. Fei’s family lived on a delta in southeast China where cropland and rice paddies stretched as far as the eye could see. Scanning his family’s property and the landscape beyond, Fei might have seen only a handful of trees.
From farm to forest, Songlin Fei has built a career and better life
Purdue Ag dean appoints Linda Prokopy as new dept head for horticulture and landscape architecture
October 12, 2020
Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, has announced that Linda Prokopy, professor of forestry and natural resources, will be the new department head for horticulture and landscape architecture (HLA). Prokopy, a member of the College of Agriculture faculty for 17 years, was selected after a national search.
Purdue Ag dean appoints Linda Prokopy as new dept head for horticulture and landscape architecture
Wildfires can leave toxic drinking water behind – here’s how to protect the public
September 21, 2020
Less than halfway through the 2020 wildfire season, fires are burning large swaths of the western U.S. As in previous years, these disasters have entered populated areas, damaging drinking water networks. Water systems have lost pressure, potentially sucking in pollutants, and several utilities are warning of possible and confirmed chemical contamination.
Wildfires can leave toxic drinking water behind – here’s how to protect the public