Linking Soil and Plant Health with Precision Agriculture Tools
Precision agriculture tools are widely available and a useful resource for farmers, industry personnel and researchers. How do these tools integrate into our work and benefit our objectives? Professor Bruno Basso will discuss how soil and plant sampling can be integrated with these tools to understand spatial and temporal variability.
Thursday, February 2
11:30am - 12:15pm
About The Speaker
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso, Ph.D., is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and MSU Foundation Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University. He is an agroecosystem scientist and a crop systems modeler. His research deals with the long-term sustainability of agricultural systems, digital agriculture, circular bioeconomy.
His research focuses on assessing and modeling spatial and temporal variability of crop yield, soil organic carbon, GHG emission, water, and nutrients fluxes across agricultural landscapes under current and future climates. He holds global patents on AI, remote sensing and crop model systems to evaluate cropland productivity and environmental sustainability.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Soil Science Society of America (SSSA); American Society of Agronomy (ASA). He is the recipient of the 2021 Morgan Stanley Sustainability Solution Prize Collaborative; 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University; 2016 Recipient of the Innovation of the Year Award from Michigan State.
He serves as member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). He is a member of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC), Department of Energy, Office of Science. He is ranked as top 2% scientist across all disciplines (PLOS one, 2021).
