Session 1

Merrick Campbell
Robotic Proximal Sensing and Sampling for Precision Irrigation in Orchards
Dr. Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Learning Robot Actions from Human Observations
Lorenzo Booth
Informative Robotic Path Planning for Sampling and Modeling Environmental Fields

Smart Farm Virtual Tour

Dr. Thomas Harmon
A Virtual Tour of UC Merced's Experimental Smart Farm

Session 2

Dr. Angel S. Fernandez-Bou
Documenting Reduced Soil Carbon Emissions: Developing and Testing a Scalable CO2 Sensing System
Humberto Flores-Landeros
Using Biogeophysical Models to Connect Soil Carbon Dynamics with Irrigation Practices
Jacob Nesslage
Quantifying Agrobiodiversity Subsidies from Natural Buffers using Geospatial Analytics and eDNA
Ana Grace Alvarado
Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment into LACA Aplications
Dr. Josué Medellín-Azuara
Agriculture, Food and Beverage Processing Labor Trends for California

Session 3

Trent Baldwin
The Recalcitrant Berry: Socio Technological Evolution of Strawberry Cultivation
Mariah Padilla
Rethinking Agriculture: A Social, Economic, and Political Examination of Increasing Automation in Farming
Henry Harrison
Broadband Coverage In Rural Agricultural Areas: California's Digital Infrastructure Dilemma and The Role of Public Policy
James Durdan
From Factory to Computer on Wheels: The Digitization of the Combine and the Future of Farm Work
Ari Plachta
California's water rights Data: Century Old Paper Records Steel Vaults and Shoddy Reporting. SWEEP, CA's Agricultural Water Efficiency program: What role should it play in state policy?
Vrashabh Kapate
Smallholder Farmers and Soil Carbon: Understanding barriers to participation in Voluntary Carbon Markets in California
Mao Fukunaga
Redressing Decline and Overcoming Challenges in Japanese Agriculture: Innovations to Improve Agricultural Productivity and Profitability in Japan