What’s Growing On in Plant Science?

May 31, 2023; Volume 26

         

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Drone demonstration and training session

Dilshan Benaragama initiated a drone demonstration and training session for an identified group of people in the Department and the Faculty on the 28th April 2023. The objective of the session was to gather a group of people with different expertise in remote sensing and drone imaging work and initiate a program to develop a drone-based imaging workflow to conduct research. This was also done in order to demonstrate the new drone and LiDAR sensor we obtained for the weed research program (Dilshan and Rob Gulden) and winter wheat breeding program (Curt McCartney) to carry out research in the future. Once the initial infrastructure is established, we are looking forward to conducting more of this training session for all the staff members and students who are interested in the Department and in the Faculty.

 

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News from Carman

 

       

In person safety training resumed on May 2nd at the Carman Research Farm. Thanks to Justice Zhanda,  Sheldon Beitcher, and technicians for organizing this meeting. It was a great experience to gather again as a large group to review how to work safely together at Carman this summer.