Tag: Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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

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

Researchers using AI and digital twin tech to make air travel more efficient and resilient

by Meredith Bauer-Mitchell
June 8, 2026

UF researchers are using AI and digital twin technology to test simulated airport operations, aiming to reduce delays, improve efficiency and strengthen resilience. The National Science Foundation-funded study simulates flights, passengers ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence

Beneath the Surface: How AI Soil Imaging Could Change the Future of Farming

by Mike Loizzo
June 5, 2026

What happens beneath the soil surface shapes everything above it — crop productivity, water quality, nutrient efficiency and climate resilience. Yet for decades, understanding subsurface soils has depended on slow laboratory methods. Besides ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AI, AI Soil Imaging, Arnold Schumann, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Soil Core, LandScan.AI, Perseverança Mungofa, Sabine Grunwald, Sandy Soils, Soil Intelligence Systems, Soil Water And Ecosystem Sciences

Keeping Youth Safe While Using AI

by Melinda Souers
May 28, 2026

Artificial Intelligence is ubiquitous. Whether or not we are seeking it, AI finds us through virtual assistants, customer service chatbots, and within most software applications. This blog is the second in a series about guiding youth in the ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: 4-H, Artificial Intelligence, Life Skills, Ocextension, UF/IFAS Extension Orange County, Youth, Youth Safety

Study uses AI, citizen science to show perceptions of access to Broward County parks

by Lourdes Mederos
April 9, 2026

A new study from the University of Florida paired artificial intelligence and citizen science to measure whether parks in Broward County provide access and the same experiences across communities. Rather than focusing solely on where ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, , Conservation, Health & Nutrition, Natural Resources, Recreation, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife
Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Broward County Parks And Recreation, Citiizen Science, Dog Parks, Dog-friendly Parks, Green Space, Haojie Cao, Homogeneous Neighborhoods, Jiangxiao Qiu, Kid-friendly, Lakefront Park, Make America Beaur, Make America Beautiful Again Commission’s Mission, Parks, Playgrounds, Pool, Recreational, Reviews, Splash Pads, Urban Green Space, Urban Parks, Walking Paths

Study uses AI, citizen science to show perceptions of access to Broward County parks

by Lourdes Mederos
April 9, 2026

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