Congratulations to the winners of the UF/IFAS – Embrapa, Brazil climate change research award who were selected by Embrapa below:

Gerrit Hoogenboom, Preeminent Scholar and Professor, Ag and Biological Engineering, Marcio Resende, Associate Professor, Horticultural Sciences, and Lincoln Zotarelli, Professor, Horticultural Sciences.

Scientific platform to evaluate impacts, adaptation and mitigation of climate changes and design for sustainable management practices.

Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao, Associate Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences, North Florida REC.

Biotechnology tools and gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9 in the interaction of sorghum cultivars and diazotrophic bacterias to measure adaptation to climate changes. 

As announced by Gbola Adesogan, Associate Vice President and Director of Global Food Systems Institute, the following team members are also winners of the IFAS award:

Nikolaos Tziolas, Assistant Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences,  South West REC, Clyde Fraisse, Professor, Ag and Biological Engineering, Jose Dubeux, Professor, Agronomy, and Sarah Strauss, Associate Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences,  South West REC.

Integrated crop-livestock systems, climate change, soil health, and crop insurance: How are they linked?”

Congratulations!