ReseaRch Services
The Future of Discovery:
Data-Powered and Barrier-Free
The College of Agriculture Research Services team is dedicated to empowering agricultural research by providing solutions tailored to your work. With over 75 years of combined experience in higher education research and over 40 years of service within the college, we specialize in collaborating with researchers—from faculty to graduate students—leveraging team science methodologies to enhance research capabilities, accelerating discovery and innovation.
Right from the outset, we get to know your project, needs, and goals. Through that relationship, we work alongside you to craft custom solutions, and in the process elevate the skills and knowledge of your team. To put it bluntly, we’re invested in your success.
Our success stories
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Putting Northwest Indiana’s Conservation Plan on the Map
Northwest Indiana holds a surprising amount of nature for a corner of the state best known for steel mills and shipping. Along Lake Michigan there are globally significant dune-and-swale landscapes that migrating birds depend on. Inland, the Valparaiso Moraine, a glacial ridge that splits the Great Lakes watershed from the Mississippi’s, shelters some of the…
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Mapping the evidence on climate change and foodborne disease
Research Services leads the methods for a Wellcome-funded systematic review of how climate change affects foodborne disease, from the search strategy to the evidence gap maps in the report to the funder.
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Identifying Causes: Airflow Visualization
The Purdue Student Farm faced challenges with inadequate plant transpiration within their year-round controlled environment growing containers. While the farm team had collected airflow data through their own measurements, they needed a clearer way to interpret these findings. To address this need, Research Services developed an interactive web application that transformed their raw data into…
What We Do
Assist
…you in overcoming short-term research obstacles:
The Research Services team is ready to assist you at any point in the research lifecycle by providing direct, hands-on support. We collaborate closely with your team to identify and implement best practices, troubleshoot data-related challenges, and remediate issues. We handle the more technical aspects of data management and analysis, ensuring that you can focus on your core research activities.
Augment
…your team throughout a research project:
Work together with your Research Services team to augment your existing research teams’ skills and capabilities. We bring specialized expertise to the entire research endeavor in areas from data acquisition and integration to advanced analytics and visualization, supplementing your team’s knowledge and capabilities. As members of your project, we bring a team science approach to contribute directly to your project, bringing our experience working on research projects in the College of Agriculture to where you need it most.
Transform
your program with a strategic collaboration:
The results of collaborating with your Research Services team carry on long beyond the immediate gains. We play a pivotal role in empowering you to maximize the value and impact of your effort. You’ll have repeatable research workflows and sustainable data management capabilities within your research group, allowing you to meet funding agencies’ evolving data requirements. Your lab members gain the ability to make data-driven decisions and extract novel insights from data. Join the growing number of labs in the College that have increased the significance of their research findings and communicate them to larger audiences.
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