Feb 14, 2025 | iSEE Research, Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy, News, News Releases
A first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary center focused on creating a climate-smart circular bioeconomy is poised for significant growth, with the appointment of a director, two endowed professorships, and a major campus commitment to hire four new faculty in departments...
Jan 31, 2025 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Nitrous oxide (N2O) has long been agriculture’s sustainability Achilles heel. While only making up 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, N2O has 300 times the heat-trapping ability ofcarbon dioxide (CO2) and stays in the atmosphere for about 100 years. This...
Oct 3, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Conventional food and agricultural production systems employ a linear “take, make, waste” approach: taking natural resources from the Earth to make food and fuel, generating waste that contaminates the soil and water, and emitting harmful pollutants. More recently, a...
Sep 13, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Seed Funded Projects, Uncategorized
Existing global energy projections underestimate the impact of climate change on urban heating and cooling systems by roughly 50% by 2099 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, researchers report. This disparity could profoundly affect critical sustainable energy...
Jul 9, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Seed Funded Projects
An iSEE seed-funded research project that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to autonomously manage “high tunnel” food production is entering its second year at the University of Illinois Sustainable Student Farm. U. of I.’s Robot Integrated High Tunnels...
Jun 20, 2024 | Agrivoltaics Project, iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Imagine a lesson on agriculture and sustainability packaged in vibrant colors, pixelated fields, and charming animations. Creators of the new educational agrivoltaics app, My Agrivoltaic Farm, available for download on iOS and Android, have accomplished just that. The...