CIDA Seminar - Operationalizing Climate Smart Farming - Steven Mirsky
From Gabriela Cestero October 16, 2023
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From Gabriela Cestero October 16, 2023
Operationalizing Climate Smart Farming
Steven Mirsky, Research Ecologist, Sustainable Agricultural
Systems Lab, USDA, ARS, BARC
Abstract:
Steven Mirsky is a Research Ecologist for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory. Dr. Mirsky is enabling climate smart farming by equipping farmers with the knowledge and tools to be more site-specific, regenerative, and adaptive. This is accomplished through several national transdisciplinary research and extension teams. These national networks partner with farmers, commodity boards, and industry and include the Precision Sustainable Agriculture network; GROW, a national integrative weed management team; and the national Cover Crop Breeding Network. Steven co-leads a technology team that builds the cyberinfrastructure and community of practice necessary for deploying the latest in computer vision and sensing in research teams and on-farm. Data collected from these networks are used to build web-based decision support tools.
Bio:
Steven Mirsky is a Research Ecologist for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory. Dr. Mirsky is enabling climate smart farming by equipping farmers with the knowledge and tools to be more site-specific, regenerative, and adaptive. This is accomplished through several national transdisciplinary research and extension teams. These national networks partner with farmers, commodity boards, and industry and include the Precision Sustainable Agriculture network; GROW, a national integrative weed management team; and the national Cover Crop Breeding Network. Steven co-leads a technology team that builds the cyberinfrastructure and community of practice necessary for deploying the latest in computer vision and sensing in research teams and on-farm. Data collected from these networks are used to build web-based decision support tools.