Forestry & Natural Resources
Remote sensing gives new look at forest diversity
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Generating comprehensive and accurate tree inventories is an important but laborious process. Purdue University scientist John Couture participated on a team that used aerial hyperspectral remote sensing platform to quickly identify trees in a diverse forest plantation, and to understand the role of tree diversity on forest productivity.
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“Education is multidimensional”: How agriculture staff and students are reaching grades PK-12 during a pandemic
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Read MoreEmerald ash borer puts trees on path to functional extinction
Thursday, November 5th, 2020 • University News Story
Since the emerald ash borer’s introduction to the United States at the beginning of the 21st century, forest ecologists and government officials have striven to stem its destruction of ash forests. Despite those efforts, the invasive pest may be winnin…
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How one FNR researcher coordinates observation of Indiana’s deer population
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Read MoreBig data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 • University News Story
Since carbon sequestration is such an important factor for mitigating climate change, it’s critical to understand the efficacy of reforestation efforts and develop solid estimates of forest carbon storage capacity. However, measuring forest properties …
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Professor’s path leads her to a new landscape
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Whether she was growing up in rural England, attending high school and college in Michigan and graduate school in North Carolina, or now living and working in West Lafayette, Linda Prokopy has always been keenly aware of the landscapes that surround her.
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Purdue family creates jobs, getaways during pandemic
Friday, October 16th, 2020
“There’s an element of gambling to lumber,” said Mark Smith. “Lumber is a commodity market so it’s up and down all the time.”
Purdue alumni Mark and Jenny Smith faced the fluctuations for 31 years as suppliers of lumber and plywood, but never experienced shifts as abrupt as those in 2020. Within a span of months, the owners of Great Lakes Forest Products, Inc. saw their expanding business reduced to a bare-bones crew before unexpectedly needing to hire a record number of employees.
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From farm to forest, Songlin Fei has built a career and better life
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
Songlin Fei, winner of the 2020 Agricultural Research Award, has made his mark on the world’s forests through advanced remote sensing technologies.
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Purdue Agriculture dean appoints Prokopy as new department head for horticulture and landscape architecture
Monday, October 12th, 2020
Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, has announced that Linda Prokopy, professor of forestry and natural resources, will be the new department head for horticulture and landscape architecture (HLA). Prokopy, a member of the College of Agriculture faculty for 17 years, was selected after a national search.
Read MorePurdue Agriculture dean appoints Prokopy as new department head for horticulture and landscape architecture
Monday, October 12th, 2020 • University News Story
Karen Plaut, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, has announced that Linda Prokopy, professor of forestry and natural resources, will be the new department head for horticulture and landscape architecture (HLA). Prokopy, a member of the College of …
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Purdue pursues industry hardwood partnerships through NSF-backed center
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
The Center for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS), a National Science Foundation-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, of which Purdue’s Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center is a founding member, develops partnerships with forest-related companies to help solve pressing needs in their industry.
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Center for Plant Biology boosts Purdue’s plant sciences profile
Monday, September 21st, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing many aspects of life on the Purdue campus to change. Faculty and graduate students are rising to the challenge, redesigning lab courses in creative and innovative ways.
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Purdue group prominent in studying chemical compounds that are everywhere — and shouldn’t be
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
As interest in “forever chemicals” increases, a Purdue group in Discovery Park’s Center for the Environment emerges as a preeminent team researching them.
At first glance, a pizza box, raincoat, nonstick pan and firefighting foam don’t have much in common. But a group of researchers in the Center for the Environment at Purdue wants us to understand that in using these seemingly unrelated products, we introduce chemicals into the environment that may linger for millennia — and in the shorter term, affect animal and human health.
COVID lessons applied to forestry, climate change
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
Many of the countries that successfully curbed their COVID-19 infection rates did so through the open sharing of vast amounts of data that allowed health officials to inform the public and distribute medical resources. It’s a model that officials from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) believe can also slow the world’s deforestation, forest degradation and climate change.
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How agriculture instructors capitalize on benefits of the virtual classroom
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
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Supporting students from Zamorano to Purdue and home again
Monday, July 13th, 2020
Staff in IPIA and Food Sciences worked behind the scenes this spring to ensure 11 international interns’ well being and repatriation.
Ada Camila Montoya Gomez, a senior in environmental engineering at Zamorano University in Honduras, was deep into three research projects at Purdue this spring when safety concerns around the coronavirus closed the university.
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Plant scientists maintain critical research to save data and irreplaceable plants
Thursday, July 9th, 2020
The College of Agriculture accounted for more than a third of Purdue researchers who asked for access and support to continue critical research when facilities closed this spring.
With about 15 wiliwili trees in the Lilly Greenhouses, and only 150 left in the wild after an insect pest decimated its population, Purdue oversees an important concentration of this deciduous tree native to Hawaii. Scott McAdam, assistant professor of botany and plant pathology, has been growing the trees for three years.
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