{"id":8895,"date":"2025-10-30T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/?page_id=8895"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:25:33","slug":"maria-carolina-souza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/people\/maria-carolina-souza\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Carolina Souza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Professional-photo-1.png\" alt=\"Professional photo (1)\" height=\"1200\" width=\"968\" title=\"Professional photo (1)\" \/>\n<h1>\n\t\tMaria Carolina Souza\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>Maria Carolina Souza is a P.hD.\u00a0student under the advisement of Dr. Tommy Butts. She is originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and obtained her B.S. in Agronomy\u00a0from the Federal\u00a0University of Lavras in 2022. She also obtained a Master&#8217;s degree in Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences from the University of Arkansas in 2025. Her P.hD.\u00a0research focuses on spray drone applications for weed management by investigating weed control efficacy, spray coverage, and deposition patterns to enhance application uniformity across varying swath settings, droplet sizes, and drone platforms relative to ground sprayers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SyDAg-2025_MariaSouza_poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SyDAg-2025_MariaSouza_poster-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"SyDAg 2025_MariaSouza_poster\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1934\" title=\"SyDAg 2025_MariaSouza_poster\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Carolina Souza Maria Carolina Souza is a P.hD.\u00a0student under the advisement of Dr. Tommy Butts. She is originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and obtained her B.S. in Agronomy\u00a0from the Federal\u00a0University of Lavras in 2022. She also obtained a Master&#8217;s degree in Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences from the University of Arkansas in 2025. Her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":214,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8895","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8895\/revisions\/9091"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/btny\/purdueweedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}