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Meeting Time: 2023-10-16 03:54:37pmGMT
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.