Category: Video
Social Responsibility in Soil and Water Sciences
How do soil, water, and data scientists come together to investigate critical issues in a socially responsible way? Learn about a USDA-funded collaborative research project underway within the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). UF/IFAS scientists, graduate students, and post-docs are working together to examine how conservation agricultural practices such as incorporating flooded rice in rotation with ...
A Closer Look at Sweet Corn Research
A feature story about Dr. Marcio Resende, an assistant professor of Horticultural Sciences. Tommy Burnes and Gage Chancey are communication and leadership development undergraduate students in the Agricultural Education and Communication Department at the University of Florida. The two students spent time with Dr. Marcio Resende who is an assistant professor in the Horticultural Sciences ...
Gleaning for Sustainable Agriculture
A feature story about past Field and Fork intern Haley Becker. This is an installment of our “Science of Food Sustainability” series in partnership with the University of Florida’s Field and Fork program. Olivia Stultz and Paxton Evans are communication and leadership development undergraduate student sat the University of Florida. They spent time with Haley Becker, an ...
GROW Communications
Meet some of the University of Florida students who work on Streaming Science, behind the scenes. Students taking courses in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication (AEC) - Communication and Leadership Development specialization develop multimedia projects featuring a variety of agricultural and natural resource issues, scientists, and extension specialists throughout the university. In this ...
The Science of Mosquitoes
In Spring 2019, we debuted a new Streaming Science interactive program called 'Scientist Online'. University of Florida Agricultural Education and Communication (AEC) graduate students and entomologists worked together to utilize the Skype in the Classroom platform to connect with elementary and middle schools in Florida, Pennsylvania, Canada, and Pakistan. The program content and dialogue focused ...
Youth STEM Engagement: Nebraska FIRST Lego League
Youth Development Specialist Bradley Barker explains Nebraska Extension's FIRST LEGO League Competition with the help of student participants. The competition demonstrates how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are used in the project and how students are more inclined to pursue these fields in their future careers. Video produced by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural and ...
The Study of White Mold – Dr. Sydney Everhart
Dr. Sydney Everhart is an assistant professor in the department of Plant Pathology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. In this video, she explains the importance of her research of a plant disease called Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, commonly known as white mold. Dr. Everhart delves into how it affects crops in Nebraska and why we ...
Cover Crops: The Research and Beyond
Katja Koehler-Cole, originally from Germany, is now a Post-Doctoral Research Associate within the Agronomy department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She uses her talents and skills to conduct the research of cover crops within Nebraska. Watch to find out more about the science of cover crops and where they will be used in the future! ...
Corn Resistant Starches: Dr. Ramer-Tait
Dr. Amanda Ramer-Tait, Assistant Professor in the UNL Food & Science Technology department, dives into a deep explanation of her research of the effects of corn resistant starches on the human gut. Through these studies she hopes to be able to recommend corn products to consumers thus creating a market. This would create incentive for ...
The Carrot Project: Dr. Luke Busta
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Plant Science Innovation, Dr. Luke Busta, and his work with reintroducing the polyacetylene genome into modern carrot varieties. His goal is to use new knowledge of chemical biology to improve human life. This video was shot and produced by University of Nebraska–Lincoln(UNL) AESC student, Grace McDonald for her ALEC-241 final. Visit Dr. ...