Category: Augment

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...
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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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Data stewardship for global food safety research

The USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL), a collaborative effort between Purdue University and Cornell University, is instrumental in advancing food safety research as part of the Feed the Future mission. FSIL grants and manages awards...
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Strategic enhancement of research workflows in food economics

The CFDAS at Purdue tracks consumer insights and the economics of the food system to produce timely reports on trends and emerging topics. The center brings data about consumers to farmers and information about farms to consumers. WE MAKE CFDAS DATA WORKFLOWS...
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Hypoxia impacts hemoglobin gene expression

Lake Erie suffers from intense periods of low oxygen, causing massive die-offs During the summer months, Lake Erie experiences periods of pronounced hypoxic conditions that are dangerous to many aquatic organisms. These events are largely driven by overgrowth of algal...
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Long-term impacts of tile drainage on crop yield

To improve crop yield in poorly drained soil types common in the US Midwest, farmers commonly installed subsurface drainage systems to help remove excess water. Despite being a common practice, we have limited understanding about how different spacings of drain...
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