…CEO of The ODIN and former NASA bioscientist Charles Baron, co-founder and vice president of Farmers Business Network, a crowd-sourced program for data-driven agriculture AgVocacy Forum will be moderated by…
Agri View: Climate Change
…climate change. Learn more from Wikipedia. Learn more on climate change from EPA. Read more facts, articles and the current studies on climate change at NASA.gov. Image courtesy of NASA.gov….
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
…as well as smaller manned aircrafts, to create high resolution images of their fields — technology similar to work that he used to do for NASA. By giving farmers a…
USDA Awards $3 Million for Robotics Research
…Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. The goal of the National Robotics Initiative (link is external) is to accelerate the development…
The Western View: An El Nino Winter
…like that poisonous yellow sea snake that came ashore last week. A climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, by the name of Bill Patzert, told the LA Times that there’s…
Food and Agriculture Board to Discuss Land Subsidence, Groundwater Management
…Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), finds land in parts of California’s San Joaquin Valley is sinking faster than ever — nearly two inches per month in some locations. Subsidence, or…
Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
…California, prepared for DWR by researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is available here: http://portal-dev.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/index.cfm From the Department of Water Resources – NASA Report…
USDA, Microsoft to Launch “Innovation Challenge” to Address Food Resiliency
…might combine data from the USDA and other government sources, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or the United States…
USDA and NASA Expand Efforts in Space and on Earth
…of this image furnished by NASA. Cathy Isom tells us how the USDA and NASA are using satellites to better monitor soil moisture and detect wildfires. USDA, NASA & Wildfires…
Harden in California to Talk about Women in Ag, Sign NASA Agreement
US Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden was in California this week. Sabrina Hill spoke with her about her visit. Harden on USDA-NASA Agreement US Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta…
UC Davis Drought Study Assesses Current Losses and Potential Future Impacts
…used computer models, remote satellite sensing data from NASA, and the latest estimates of State Water Project, federal Central Valley Project and local water deliveries and groundwater pumping capacities. The…
Climate Change: Register now for the first California Adaptation Forum
The consensus is overwhelming: our climate is changing. According to NASA’s Global Climate Change website, “97% of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely…