Weed Science Team

 

While Cornell's varsity sports teams take a summer respite, the Cornell Weed Team travels yearly to the Northeastern Weed Science Society’s Collegiate Weed Science Contest – an international competition among the finest agricultural students in the region.

While the students face endless marijuana wisecracks about weed from nonscientists, the tournament is no joke. In the contest, graduate and undergraduate students identify weeds at various growth stages and identify herbicide applications for different crops based on visual symptoms. They calibrate sprayers and application speeds, and solve farming problems – while in the field and thinking on their feet – all without consulting a textbook.

Antonio DiTommaso, professor and chair in soil and crop sciences at the School of Integrative Plant Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Lynn Sosnoskie, assistant professor in weed ecology at Cornell AgriTech (CALS) in Geneva, New York, serve as team advisers. Contact them if you are interested in joining.

Learn more from these Cornell Chronicle articles.

2023 cornell weed science team group shot
2023, Union City, Tennessee
photo 2022 weed science team
2022 Plattsville, Ontario, Canada
photo of 2019 weed science team
2019 Seymour, Illinois
photo of 2018 Weed Science Team
2018 Smithfield, NC.
photo of 2017 Cornell Weed Science Team
2017 North Rose, NY.
photo of 2016 Cornell Weed science team
2016 Blacksburg, VA
photo of 2015 Cornell Weed Science Team
2015 Columbus, OH
group photo of 2014 Cornell weed science team
2014 State College, PA
group photo of 2013 Cornell Weed science team
2013 Monmouth, IL
group photo of 2012 Weed science team
2012 Pittstown, NJ
group photo of 2011 Weed science team
2011 Knoxville, TN
2010 summer research assistants
2010 (no team) hosted in Ithaca, NY with help from our summer research assistants
2009 weed science team
2009 Sheridan, IN
2008 Cornell Weed Science Team
2008 Seaford, DE
2007 Cornell Weed Science Team
2007 Blacksburg, VA
2006 Cornell Weed Science Team
2006 Newark, DE
2005 Cornell Weed Science Team
2005 Lancaster, PA
2003 Cornell Weed Science Team
2003 Hudson, NY
2002 Cornell Weed Science Team
2002 North Rose, NY
2001 Cornell Weed Science Team
2001 Storrs, CT
2000 Cornell Weed Science Team
2000 Guelph, Ontario Canada