Data-Enabled Agriculture Resilience
Main Library, Learning Studios
Time
14:00-16:00 (GMT-7)
About
In the face of disruptive environmental and economic change, data and artificial intelligence may offer the best hope for resilience in agriculture, farming, ranching, and water use amid a drying climate.
The Institute for Computation and Data-Enabled Insight invites students, faculty and staff to join University of Arizona researchers, extension specialists and colleagues from across campus for a panel discussion and Q&A session on the benefits, challenges and ideas associated with the use of data and technology in agriculture. Topics and panelists include:
Arizona as Leaders in Open Agriculture
George Frisvold, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Agriculture Technology and Cyberinfrastructure
Duke Pauli and Eric Lyons, School of Plant Sciences
The Social and Societal Impacts of Data and the People in Agriculture
Stephanie Carroll, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance & Zuckerman College of Public Health
Cutting-edge Information Technologies, Addressing Challenges
Nirav Merchant and Maliaca Oxnam, Data Science Institute
Tyson Swetnam, Geoinformatics, BIO5 Institute
Increasing Investments in Cyberinfrastructure to Support Resilient Agriculture
Channah Rock, Cooperative Extension, Maricopa Agricultural Center