Posted by Alan Scher Zagier
On January 9, 2018
Read the original article on the mst.edu website...
A growing population gets a robotic assist
Technology aids researchers in examining efficiency, yields of crops
Columbia Daily Tribune
Monday, April 3, 2017
Dr. Simone Silvestri, Missouri Transect seed grant awardee, Plant Team member, and assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T, is using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor how crops respond to climate change and drought.
St. Louis high school student, Monica Malone, has been doing research at the Danforth Plant Science Center for nearly three years with Dr. Terry Woodford-Thomas, Missouri Transect Education Team Lead. Presenting her research on “A Study of Microbial Communities From Till and No-Till Missouri Soils Using Genetic Finger Printing," Miss Malone won first prize Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the...
