Category: Natural Resources

UF Researchers are a Water Quality Triple Threat, Securing $1M towards Gulf Clean Up

by Samantha Jones
June 30, 2026

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded one million dollars to support a UF Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) project in the Gulf of America that will leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning tools ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, Water
Tags: #AI, ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Biological Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Engineering, Water

Hydrological Modeling and the Blackfeet Nation: A Marriage of Science and Storytelling

by Samantha Jones
March 24, 2025

ABE’s Rio Bonham specializes in hydrological modeling; if you asked him to give an elevator pitch of his work he might say something along the lines of, ‘I use computers to predict where water is going to be’. However, inarguably, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Water
Tags: #AI, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, UF IFAS, Water

UF ABE faculty gives pollution a raincheck

by Samantha Jones
November 19, 2024

Stormwater runoff is one of the biggest threats to Florida’s natural waterways and water quality. Runoff refers to water from everyday rain events, which happen frequently during our summer months. Contaminants such as fertilizer, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Water
Tags: Pollution, Stormwater, Water

Big Questions, Global Reach – Dr. Sandra Guzmán

by McKenzie Wynn
July 17, 2023

The Power of Machine Learning Today, agricultural engineering includes the wide range of technologies and disciplines that must be employed to meet the challenges of a new century. A hundred years ago, agricultural engineers were developing ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: #AI, ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Irrigation, Machine Learning, Water

Big Questions, Global Reach – Dr. Vivek Sharma

by McKenzie Wynn
May 30, 2023

The Impact of Water Movement Water is always going someplace. Rivers and rain – these are obviously water in motion, but even in a lake, as placid as it may seem, water is on the move, exiting through rivers and creeks and up into the air. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agriculture, Extension, UF IFAS

Big Questions, Global Reach – Chris Martinez

by McKenzie Wynn
April 6, 2023

Understanding the Scope of Climate Change Action Climate change is widely discussed these days, perhaps to the point that many people, while concerned, wonder what an individual can do about such a large-scale problem. The fact is that addressing ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water

UF ABE: Big Questions, Global Reach – Dr. Young Gu Her

by McKenzie Wynn
January 30, 2023

There’s a current debate about whether our planet has entered a new geologic age called the Anthropocene, derived from two Greek words: “anthropo-“ for human being and “-cene” for new. It’s not an official geologic term quite yet, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Water

UF ABE Extension Blog: Dr. Michael Dukes

by McKenzie Wynn
August 19, 2022

If you think about it, watering the yard with sprinklers is one of the rare situations in which the product is sprayed away from the target in order to apply it. Sprinklers do this in order to distribute the water over large areas and let water ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Extension, Research, UF IFAS, Water

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