CALDERON, Elsa –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Environmental Justice and the Threat to Black Farm Ownership in the Mississippi
Figure Caption: A farmer and his wife are overlooking the land that has belonged to his family for many generations in the Mississippi Delta.
CASTRO, Vidi –
Dept: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Project Title: Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: a multi-trait analysis of the dry-farm tomato Solanum lycopersicum
Figure Caption: The physiology of dry-farmed crops. Panel A shows a stem cross section of a tomato, panel B shows the vein network of a tomato leaf, and panel C shows students measuring stomatal conductance in the field. Photos by A. Baer and A. Roche.
CHESNEY, Charlie –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Cactus-Electricity Demonstration Plot
Figure Caption: pH and voltage sensors in a prickly pear cactus stem at the UCSC Farm. Photo by C. Chesney.
CHIANG, Bo Huey –
Dept: Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
Project Title: Metabolic Interactions among Human Gut Bacteroides that Co-adhere to Dietary Plant Fiber Particles
Figure Caption: Confocal microscopy picture of human gut isolate Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI3164 strain selectively adhering to dietary plant polysaccharide galactan (lupin) over arabinoxylan.
COWAL, Sanya –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Ant-Mediated Biocontrol for Hawaiian Coffee
Figure Caption: Monocrop (left) and mixed agroforestry (right) coffee farm research sites for ant-coffee berry borer predation experiment in Kona, Hawai’i. Photo by S. Cowal.
DECOITE, Meg –
Dept: Coastal Science and Policy
Project Title: Marine debris assessment of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Protecting Seafood Stocks.
Figure Caption: Fishers retrieving lost spiny lobster fishery gear off of Santa Cruz Island and returning to the fishing vessel offshore via kayak. Photo by M. DeCoite.
GANDHI, Piyush –
Dept: Economics
Project Title: Extinguishing the Blaze: Reducing Crop Residue Burning in India
Figure Caption: Sensitisation training session with farmers to reduce crop residue burning in Punjab, India. Photo by P. Gandhi
JAYANTI, Hannah –
Dept: Film and Digital Media
Project Title: Topography
Figure Caption: Using a stereo microphone and an ambisonic microphone, I recorded many locales and field recordings to capture an ethnobotanical trail and medicinal plant identification guide in the Badlands area of South Western South Dakota. Photo by H. Jayanti.
KLAWITTER, Danielle –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture for Nutrient Source and Soilborne Pathogen Suppression in Strawberries
Figure Caption: Romaine lettuce plants grown under different treatments: with or without an introduced pathogen, and receiving either regular fertilizer or a combination of fertilizer and fish effluent. Photo by M. Barrett.
LAI, Edith –
Dept: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Project Title: Hyperparasites in Plant Disease Control
Figure Caption: Blackberry leaves infected with powdery mildew in Henry Cowell State Park. Photo by E. Lai.
LIN, Jack and VAFADARI, Firouz (joint project)
Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Greener Greenhouses
Figure Caption: Greenhouse wireless sensor uses solar panels to capture light from the overhead agricultural LED grow lights for powering the device and as a visible light communication channel for adjusting sensor parameters. Photo by J. Lin.
LIPTON, Suzanne –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: How does management affect dung beetles and cascading impacts on nutrient cycling in California’s Central Coast?
Figure Caption: Cows and cow dung collected to trap dung beetles on grazed grasslands in the Central Coast of California. Photo by S. Lipton.
LUO, Siyu –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Enhancing California Farms and Water Resources: Growing Solar on Fallowed Land as an Drought Resilience Strategy
Figure Caption: Solar facilities were under construction on a fallowed land in Fresno County that was previously a peach farm. Photo by S. Luo.
MADDEN, John –
Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Power measurement hardware to study microbial fuel cells as real-time soil carbon sensors
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MASTERS, Morgan –
Dept: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Creating 3D Semantic Land Use Models with Agricultural Robotics
Figure Caption: UAV-borne optics and survey-grade GPS combine to produce custom, AI-ready training data for the unique problems of agricultural production systems. This adds the ability to rapidly, automatically detect emerging problems to the farmer’s toolkit.
SULLIVAN, Summer –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Leafy Greens and Digital Dreams: California Agriculture, Racial Capitalist Landscapes, and the Future of Farm Work
Figure Caption: This art stands tall in the middle of the Salinas Valley lettuce fields, known as the “salad bowl of the world.” It is, I think, meant to commemorate the farmworkers whose skilled yet devalued labor has built the valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Photo by S. Sullivan.
VAVURIS, Tashina –
Dept: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Connecting Leaders4EARTH with Agroecology and NEXTGEN Fellows
Figure Caption: High school students from the Salinas Valley participating in a field site visit at UCSC Farm, exploring sustainable agriculture and learning about insect sampling methods. Photo by T. Vavuris.
VEGA, Giovanni –
Dept: Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
Project Title: Studying the biology of diet-induced antibodies that target plant glycans
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ZHENG, Connie –
Dept: HAVC/ Visual Studies
Project Title: All The Food We Can and Cannot Find: A Visual Culture of Foraging 2001-2022
Figure Caption: The contents of the HK FARMer’s Almanac (2015), a collection of zines focused on farming, agroecology and urban foraging in Hong Kong. Asia Art Archive. August 2024. Photo by C. Zheng