Tag: AI

Digital elevation model of a deep stone canyon with a meandering and curving river in bright blue, orange, and yellow colors.

Sabine Grunwald Named 2026 ASA Fellow

by Mike Loizzo
September 18, 2026

The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) named University of Florida professor Sabine Grunwald a 2026 ASA Fellow. It is the Society’s highest honor recognizing exceptional achievement and service in agronomy. Grunwald is a professor of pedometrics ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: American Society Of Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, ASA Fellow, Carbon Modeling, Climate Smart Agriculture, Digital Soil Mapping, GeoAI, Geospatial Technologies, Pedometrics, Sabine Grunwald, Soil Health, Soil Sensing, Soil Water And Ecosystem Sciences
A wet meadow wetland of possible groundwater vulnerability in Florida.

AI Offers a New View of Groundwater Vulnerability in Florida

by Mike Loizzo
August 28, 2026

Florida’s farms, communities, and natural ecosystems share a vital resource: groundwater. Aquifers support our drinking-water supplies, agriculture, springs, wetlands and rivers. But in many parts of Florida, shallow and highly permeable aquifers ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: AI, Aquifer, Artificial Intelligence, Convolutional Neural Network, DRASTIC, Farm Management, Golmar Golmohammadi, Groundwater Vulnerability, Nitrogen, Soil Water And Ecosystem Sciences, Watershed Hydrology
Natural Area Teaching Laboratory boardwalk covered in high water. Photo taken 06-25-21.

NSF awards UF $1.79M grant to harness AI-powered environmental forecasting with help from HiPerGator

by Lourdes Mederos
August 25, 2026

Water and carbon are key resources people rely on every day, from the availability of drinking water and preventing floods to storing carbon in forests and wetlands. The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.79 million grant to ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Flood, HiPerGator, Jiangxiao Qiu, National Science Foundation, Research, The Water Institute

NSF awards UF $1.79M grant to harness AI-powered environmental forecasting with help from HiPerGator

by Lourdes Mederos
August 25, 2026

Water and carbon are key resources people rely on every day, from the availability of drinking water and preventing floods to storing carbon in forests and wetlands. The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.79 million grant to ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, Conservation, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Flood, HiPerGator, Jiangxiao Qiu, National Science Foundation, Research, The Water Institute

As a UF Student and NVIDIA Intern, I’m Using Agricultural AI to Help Transform Global Food Production

by Samantha Jones
August 18, 2026

By Jing (Zijing) Huang When people hear that I am completing my doctorate in agricultural and biological engineering at UF, they often assume my work is confined to farmland, crop yields and tractors. But applying advanced AI to agriculture ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Student Success
A broad view of a community garden and a perfect example of urban agriculture public support in South Florida. UF/IFAS Photos by Jiangxiao Qiu

What’s driving support for urban agriculture? Public surveys and AI-assisted analysis offer insights

by Lourdes Mederos
August 13, 2026

A University of Florida study provides evidence that public support for urban agriculture has deep roots. The findings show that public support is not one-dimensional. Instead, researchers at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Blog Community, Farm Management, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agriculture, AI, Community Gardens, Food Security, Sustainability, UF-IFAS, Urban Agriculture

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: ABE, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, AI, Biological Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Engineering, Water
Farm laborers workiing in the field next to a farm machine.

UF experts help farmers use web-based tools to predict strawberry, tomato yields faster, more accurately

by Brad Buck
June 16, 2026

To make a successful return on their investment, growers need to accurately predict how much crop they might grow in a given season. University of Florida researchers are developing web-based tools that incorporate artificial intelligence to ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Crops, Forecasting, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, HiPerGator, Images, Jessica Chitwood-Brown, Kevin Wang, PhenoSeg, PhenoSnap, Shinsuke Agehara, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Vance Whitaker, Wael Elwakil, Web Tools, Yield

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