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Academic focus: Ecology and evolution of plant pathogens in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) Research summary: I study how biotic drivers such as the plant virome are shaping the ecology and evolution of plant pathogens. My lab aims to...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Academic focus: Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and robotics in agriculture Research summary: My research program focuses on innovating AI, machine learning and robotics solutions for agricultural applications, aiming to reduce resource...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
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Academic focus: Insect environmental physiology Research summary: I study how insects survive and thrive in harsh environments. Although we center our research on the insect, we follow mechanisms all the way to molecular biology and consequences...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Physiology
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Academic focus: Trait evolution, genomics and phylogenetics Research summary: I study why and how phenotypic traits evolve in insects. I focus on traits that often differ between the sexes, such as color patterns, and try to understand how...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Genomics
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Academic focus: Biodiversity big data and insect conservation Research summary: The goal of my research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data. While the distribution of some...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
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Academic focus: Evolutionary and conservation genomics Research summary: I study evolution in natural populations. I am motivated by questions that help us understand biodiversity on a fundamental level. What are the origins of biodiversity...
  • Computational Biology
  • Animals
  • Genomics
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Academic focus: Biotechnologies for sustainable solutions in space and on Earth Research summary: In the coming decades, space exploration will take us beyond Earth’s orbit, demanding highly efficient closed-loop systems to reduce costs and...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Academic focus: Controlled environment insect ecology Research summary: My research explores how abiotic and biotic factors drive invertebrate communities in controlled environment agriculture (CEA). CEA is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
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Academic focus: Alpine botany, biodiversity, museum science Research summary: My research aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate and maintain biodiversity across space and time in alpine “sky islands” on...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants

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Day in the Life Events Continue to Expand with Help from Cornell Extension Partners Co-written with Emily Fell Additional contributions from Chris Bowser Nearly 5,000 student scientists lined the shores along the Hudson River, tributaries in the...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • New York State Water Resources Institute
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Academic focus: Geospatial science for sustainable water resource management Research summary: I study plant water use from field to global scales using remote sensing techniques to guide irrigation scheduling and monitor plant stress condition...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Plants
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Academic focus: Information ecosystems, misinformation, journalism Research summary: I study information ecosystems, with a particular interest in improving communication by trusted institutions, e.g., government agencies, newsrooms...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Academic focus: Grapevine breeding, genetics and genomics Research summary: My research focuses on the genetic understanding and improvement of grapes, with an emphasis on fruit quality, environmental resilience and biotic resistance. We also...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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Academic focus: Media and decolonization Lab website: www.wunpini.com Research summary: My research focuses on interrogating power in media and communications while working together with disenfranchised communities to use media to bring about...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Academic focus: Weather and climate in the tropical atmosphere Research summary: I am an atmospheric scientist that enjoys using both theory and models to ask fundamental questions about the tropical atmosphere. For instance, I am particularly...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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Academic focus: Bayesian statistics, dependent (time series, spatial, functional, etc.) data, missing data Lab website: www.danielrkowal.com Research summary: My research aims to provide reliable, scalable and interpretable statistical inference...
  • Statistics and Data Science
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Acacemic focus: Biogeochemistry, contaminant fate and transport Lab website: gersonlab.weebly.com Research summary: I am a watershed biogeochemist. I study how anthropogenic activities have altered the cycling of nutrients and contaminants...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Academic focus: Labor, technology and economic development Lab website: www.aaronbenanav.com Research summary: My research investigates the historical and structural forces shaping contemporary labor markets, with a particular emphasis on the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Academic focus: Rural livelihoods decision-making Research summary: We do pro-poor, people-first environment and development research in areas like migration, agricultural development, irrigation and human-wildlife conflict. We focus on...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Academic focus: Evolution across environmental gradients and in response to climate change. Research summary: My research focuses on rapid evolution across spatiotemporal scales with a focus on climate change and biotic interactions. At Cornell...
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants