Each summer, Prairie View A&M University provides agricultural training to INFEWS Scholars through the summer short course, “Rising Technologies for Predictive Analytics of Water Management for a Sustainable Agriculture.”
PVAMU faculty and researchers teach students varied topics such as novel sensing and approaches in rainfall monitoring, crop protection, food security, bioinformatics and using future climate projections to calculate potential irrigation water requirements for selected crops. With the help of PVAMU experts, Trainees also develop a project, often related to their own research, and present their findings at the end of the short course. At least two of the projects have been extended to produce research articles.
Topics in include:
- Organic amendments
- Crop modeling
- Geospatial analysis of rainfall and crop yields using remote sensing
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- IManSys, IrrigWise software
- Plant-Soil-Water continuum
- Smart agriculture – AI and IoT
Short Course Projects
Cooper, Carolyn & Troutman, Jacob
“Spatio–Temporal Impacts of Climate Change on Urban Agriculture Irrigation Requirements”
Davila, Sara
“Application of COMET-Farm to Estimate On-farm Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across Rio Grande Valley, Texas”
DeRespino, Sophie
“Effect of Organic Amendment Types and Rates on Sweet Corn and Egyptian Spinach Seeds Germination”
Hendrickson, Greg
“Energy and Water Demands for Corn Fields in Bastrop County, TX”
Kearney, Kade
“Effect of Organic Amendment Types and Rates on Leaf Chlorophyll and NDVI of Sweet Corn”
Yan, Chenxu
“Potential Climate Change Effect on Irrigation Requirements of Cotton at Urban Roots Farm in Austin, TX”
Zhu, Qianru
“Rising Technologies and Predictive Analytics for Sustainable Agriculture of Cotton in Austin, TX”