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Piyush Pandey recently received the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant” award from the NC State Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Congrats Piyush!

Starting January 1, 2022, the DAISy Lab will be joining the Utah Water Research Lab (UWRL) in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Utah State University. The UWRL has been a leader in water and environmental research for over 50 years and is the oldest and one of the largest university-based water research facilities in the US.

Both Andrew and Russell defended their MS theses and will graduate in December. Andrew’s thesis was titled: “Investigating Miscanthus Water Use Efficiency Using UAVs and In-Situ Sensors”. Russell’s thesis was titled: “Estimation of Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Nearshore Aquaculture Environments using UAV RGB Imagery”.

Russell is an MS student working on remote sensing and coastal water quality research. His presentation was titled “Sampling and Estimation of Surface Phytoplankton Concentrations in Brackish Environments via Autonomous Surface and Aerial Vehicles”.

Her thesis was titled “Accurate and Rapid Assessment of Pig Body Weights Using a Handheld, Mobile Stereo Imaging System”. Congrats Anh!

Piyush developed and delivered a tutorial on hyperspectral image processing at the 2021 Midwest Big Data Summer School held by Iowa State University. The tutorial can be found here: https://github.com/piyuss/hyperspectral-image-demo

Sierra Young spoke in the session: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The AgRevolution Shaping What We (Will) Eat. For more information about this event, see here: https://www.naefrontiers.org/192312/2021-US-Frontiers-of-Engineering-Symposium for information about the FOE program, see here: https://www.

She will serve on the board from 2022-2024. For more information about NAPPN, see here: https://www.plantphenotyping.org/

His new position starts November 2020. Congratulations Yuzhen!

Young will lead an interdisciplinary team (Drs. John-Paul Ore, Steve Hall, Celso Castro-Bolinaga, Natalie Nelson) to develop a team of aerial and surface robots for water quality monitoring in coastal aquaculture production areas.