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Sept 30, 2025, Topic Group Meeting: CO2 in CEA.
Sept 30, 2025, Topic Group Meeting: CO2 in CEA.
This topic group meeting features the following speakers:
Yun Yin – Aromatic Botanicals in CO₂-Enriched Environments
Toni Sperry – CO₂ Building Emissions Offset with Crops
Hasan Seyyedhasani – ML Modeling of CO₂ Dynamics & Recycling
Farrokh Jazizadeh – Indoor CO₂ Concentration Modeling
Recording can be accessed here (permission required).
Sept 23, 2025 Topic Group Meeting: light control in CEA
Sept 23, 2025 Topic Group Meeting: light control in CEA
First topic group meeting features "light control in CEA". Four teams presented their research updates:
Dr. Javad Velni – Light control mathematical modeling.
Dr. Eric Stallknecht – Energy efficiency in greenhouse lighting.
Dr. Amit Rai – Lettuce metabolome/transcriptome under light regimes.
Dr. Shuyang Zhen – Co-optimizing light intensity & CO₂ for vegetables.
Recording can be accessed here (permission required).
Feb 20-21, 2025. Advisory Board Meeting
Feb 20-21, 2025. Advisory Board Meeting
From left: Song Li, Jay Abbott, George Kantor, Tao Qi, Chen Yongsheng, Tim Richards, Eva Collakova, Peter Forstner, Kaylee South, Boris Vinatzer, John Bovay, Jactone Ogejo, Qingshan Wei, and Mike Evans (not in the photo) attended the meeting in person.
Oct 18, 2024. Advisory Board Assembled
Oct 18, 2024. Advisory Board Assembled
We have finalized our advisory board members, they are:
Dr. Mike Evans, Professor, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Focus Aim: 1 and 5.
Dr. Yongsheng Chen, Bonnie W. and Charles W. Moorman IV Professor, Georgia Tech. Focus Aim 1, and 2.
Dr. Trevor Charles, Professor, Director, WCMR, University of Waterloo. Focus Aim 3 and 4.
Dr. Timothy Richards, Professor and Marvin and June Morrison Chair of Agribusiness, Arizona State University. Focus Aim 4 and 5.
Dr. Qingshan Wei, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University. Focus Aim 2, and 3.
Dr. Scott Lowman, Vice President of Applied Research, IALR. Focus Aim 1 and 5.
Mr. Jay Abbott, Past Red Sun Farms Director of Operations. Focus Aim ALL.
The advisory board meeting is set to happen on Feb 20, 2025. Looking forward to meet everyone.
Oct 1, 2024. I2GROW students present their work at CEA East Summit
Oct 1, 2024. I2GROW students present their work at CEA East Summit
Students working on I2GROW project attended the third annual Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Summit East returned to the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) Conference Center in Danville, VA, from October 1-2, 2024.
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