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CIDA: Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture
CIDA: Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture

CIDA Supported Research

Inspiring new frontiers in science, policy and practice.

The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) provides support for a wide range of diverse projects and grant proposals:

2020

  • Food Physics: Improved and Quantitative Understanding for Efficient Product and Process Development (NIFA HEC)
    Investigators: Ashim Datta (CALS)
  • Comparison of different biomass methodologies to adjust data on antimicrobial drug sales for use in food-producing animals in USA (Pew Charitable Trusts)
    Investigators: Renata Ivanek (CVM)
  • Modeling  and training to enhance resilience of the US food system to COVID-19 labor shortages
    Investigators: Renata Ivanek (CVM)
  • Field deployable sensing of the plant-soil interface: innovative bio-mimetic robots to understand dynamic soil processes and accelerate root and rhizosphere productivity
    Investigators: Taryn Bauerle (CALS); Abe Stroock (COE); Mike Gore (CALS); Johannes Lehmann (CALS); Robert Shepherd (COE)
  • Acquisition of Large Animal Climate-Controlled Respiration Chambers (NIFA EGP)
    Investigators: Joseph McFadden (CALS); Xingen Lei (CALS); Kristan Reed (CALS); Michael E. Van Amburgh (CALS); Peter E. Wright (CALS); Curt A. Gooch (CALS); Jefferson Tester (COE); Robert W. Howarth (CALS); Thomas Overton (CALS)

2019

  • Food Security Strategies for an Emerging E-Commerce Economy: Modelling Approaches to Predict Shelf-Life, Food Quality, and Food Safety in China (Walmart Foundation)
    Investigators: Martin Wiedmann (CALS); Renata Ivanek (CVM); Ralph Christy (JCB)
  • Reducing Food Waste by Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior Using Data-Informed, Dynamic Economic Incentives (FFAR)
    Investigators: Martin Wiedmann (CALS); Renata Ivanek (CVM); Aaron Adalja (SHA); Carmen Moraru (CALS); Julie Goddard (CALS)
  • Surf & Turf: Rationale for Building Aquaculture Research Facilities at Cornell
    Investigators: Eugene Won (CALS); Michael Timmons (CALS)
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (US-AID)
    Investigators: Stephen Kresovich (Director; CALS); Hale Tufan (CALS); Mike Gore (CALS); Kelly Robbins (CALS)
  • CHS: Medium: Understanding and Improving the Social Impact of High-Bandwidth Farm Networking Infrastructure (NSF)
    Investigators: Phoebe Sengers (CIS/CAS); Hakim Weatherspoon (CIS); Steven Wolf (CALS)
  • CNS: Medium: Towards a Tightly Integrated Blockchain for IoT Environments (NSF)
    Investigators: Robbert van Renesse (CIS); Hakim Weatherspoon (CIS)
  • The Ruminant Farm Systems (RuFaS) model: A next-generation, whole-farm, dairy systems model to support sustainable productivity and environmental health
    Investigators: Kristan Reed (CALS); Fengqi You (COE); Greg Thoma (UARK); Jennie Popp (UARK); Kevin, Panke-Buisse (USDA ARS); Victor Cabrera (UW-Madison)
  • Digital agriculture: An evidence synthesis and landscape analysis
    Investigators: Jaron Porciello (CALS)

2018

  • Team training in digital plant science: developing new hardware and software applications across multiple scales (NRT)
    Investigators: Mike Scanlon (CALS)
  • A systems approach to microbial food safety in produce: Leveraging data science approaches to inform food safety decisions (SCRI)
    Investigators: Martin Wiedmann (CALS); Renata Ivanek (CVM); Randy Worobo (CALS); Aaron Adalja (SHA)
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