Author: Kirby Kalbaugh

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...

Dr. Krishna Nemali's visiting scholar, Ayyaz Ahmed, proposed testing an innovative hoop design for their research. Research Services collaborated with Ahmed to transform his initial concept sketch into a precise 3D model. The team then optimized the design for additive...

Dr. Kranthi Varala needed a web-accessible tool to extract data and visualize the regulatory network for WHO. The total amount of data was over 100 million data elements. Our team utilized shared university resources to provide a no-cost solution for...

Purdue’s 7,300-square-foot phenotyping facility

Dr. Jackie Boerman and Dr. Luiz Britol wanted to analyze data produced at dairy farms. Dairy producers are utilizing multiple software programs and sensors on their farms to assist with the management of their farms. A challenge to fully utilizing...

Dr. Shalamar Armstrong's Soil Ecosystem and Nutrient Dynamics (SEND) Lab, in Purdue Agronomy, studies how cover crops protect farmland — the nutrients in the soil, the water that runs off it, and the yields that follow. The harder problem was...