We are very excited to announce that we have recently been awarded two projects from the Signals in the Soil Program.
- Phytoelectronic Soil Sensing is funded by the National Science Foundation with additional support from United Kingdom Research and Innovation and will focus on the study and devleopment of printed sensors that can be implanted directly into plant tissue to monitor analytes within the plant, and therefore soil, in real time. Our collaborators include Bob McLeod at CU, and Sean Gleason at the US Department of Agriculture as well as George Malliaras and Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge.
- Detecting Soil Degradation and Restoration through a Novel Coupled Sensor and Machine Learning Framework is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture with additional support from the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council and will focus on devloping novel, multi-functional soil sensing platforms, based on conventional and new sensor technologies, enabling observation of changes across physical, chemical and biological properties and processes, in order to monitor and predict soil degradation and restoration. Our collaborators include Jason Neff and Evan Thomas at CU as well as teams at the University of Lancaster and the University of Manchester.
These new projects are featured in a recent article about our work in this area.