RESEARCH PROFILES Archives - Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Climate Change and Urbanization: Team Employs New Modeling Framework

Process-based climate modeling and machine learning/artificial intelligence produce a real simulation of climate dynamics in urban landscapes.

Mapping Tool Will Help Wetland Management in the Midwest

iSEE’s Q&A with Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center grad student Rohini Vembar, who helped build the tool with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Paul Mwebaze: Exploring ‘Agrivoltaics’ from the Ground Up

Paul Mwebaze likes American football, European football, and agrivoltaics. Let’s break that down if it’s confusing: the first is football,…

Vikram Kumar: Seeking Sustainable Answers for Waste Residue

Vikram Kumar was always a bright student in elementary and high school, but he felt constrained by the lack of…

Sabrina Summers: Food Waste to Fuel

Thanks to the work of Sabrina Summers and her University of Illinois research teammates, you might be able to power…

Sam Sun: Gathering Smarter Cropland Data

Xiangmin “Sam” Sun is a postdoc focusing on field observation of greenhouse gas fluxes for biofuel crops, and has interests…

Mathieu Gaillard: A Bright Future for 3D Crop Models

The architecture of a plant’s organs, such as leaves, stems, roots, and buds, plays a significant role in its growth…

Research Around the World: iSEE’s Nictor Namoi

Nictor Namoi could have studied anywhere in the world, and he chose to travel all the way from Kenya to…

Megan Matthews: Growing our Soybean Models

Crop researchers worldwide are constantly advancing our understanding of the plants we rely on. One approach that many scientists take…