Progress 06/15/16 to 12/14/20
Outputs
Target Audience:Besides the Fellowsthemselves who are the focus of this project, other target audiences reached includedother students within the Fellows' home academic departments, high school students, North Carolina growers (commodity crops), and industry.Several project-initiated seminars were attended by NCSU faculty and students. These included presentations by industryrepresentativess and faculty colleagues. A poster reporting one Fellow's research was shared with attendees at the NCCommodities Conference sponsored by the Corn Growers Assoc. of NC, the NC Cotton Producers Association, the NC Small Grain Growers Assoc., and the NC Soybean Producers Assoc; attendees included growers, consultants, extension agents, scientists, and local, state and University representatives. Posters were also displayed at the annual meetings of the Crop Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy: attendees included scientists, students, consultants, extension agents, etc. A similar audience attended the annual meetings of the Soil Science Society of NC where one Fellow shared research posters. One Fellow gave three seminars at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) New England Summer Conference; the audience included growers, agents, students, and the general public. One Fellow presented her research at several professional society and technical meetings including the Phytochemical Societyof North America and the Society for Experimental Biology, among others. The primary audiences at these meetings were scientists and graduate students. She also presented posters and talks at the NCSU Biochemistry Research Syposium, the NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium, and the NCSU Plant Biology Research Symposium. The primary audience was graduate students, faculty, and college and university administrators. The same Fellow was a guest speaker at a local high school and a volunteer at an elementary school science night. One fellow presented a poster at a departmental graduate student symposium and gave a presentation as part of a "Light-for-Life" universityseminar series.Through some of these activities, our audience expandedto includeelementary and secondary school teachers, students, staff, and parents. Changes/Problems:One Fellow withdrew from the program due to personal reasons, but did complete an M.S. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Regular project meetings allowed Fellows to practice presentation skills while communicating their research progress and results. All Fellows completed their project-required internships: one at the Soil Health Institute, in Morrisville, NC; another at Syngenta Crop Protection, Durham, NC; and the third at Benson Hill Biosystems in St. Louis, MO. Fellow Martin was one of 36 graduate students nationwide who completed the 2018 "Team Science Cross-Disciplinary Problem-Solving & Research Training for Graduate Student" sponsored by the Virginia Sea Grant (VASG), the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), and the University of Virginia (UVA). She also chaired the NCSU Graduate School Advisory Council for Professional Development and served as the president of the Crop and Soil Sciences Graduate Student Association. She participated in commodity conferences and in annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America where she made presentations and took part in a professional development program. She also participated in two Soil Science Society of North Carolina conferences and two commodity conferences. She taught three sections of a basic soils lab with supervision and mentoring by a senior faculty member. One Fellow trained and mentored an undergraduate student in an independent research project. The Fellow was also mentored in proposal writing and manuscript preparation. She attended several agriculture-biotech networking events and participated in national scientific society conferences/events, including a workshop for young investigators. All three Fellows participated in the NCSU Accelerate to Industry (A2I) workshops, a workforce readiness program which included strategies like resume writing, interviewing, networking, and personal branding. All Fellows worked with graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines, including agronomy/soil science, biochemistry, and optical engineering. One Fellow participated in a workshop for an NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center project held to identify agricultural opportunities and problems that engineering sensors and data could be tailored to resolve. He also participated in a RiseEnAg (Rapid Innovations in System Engineering and Agricultural Sustainability) stakeholder workshop where agriculture sector needs were identified and potential technological solutions discussed. One fellow attended a virtual workshop on Plant Image Analysis in August, 2020, as part of the NSF Big Data SPOKE project on "Integrating Biological Big Data Research into Student Training and Education." How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Dissemination included efforts within the Fellows' home academic departments, outreach to high school students, and collaboration with industry. For example, Fellow Liebelt gave a presentation on "Biotechnology in Agriculture" to high school students, and also mentored a high school student with imaging and informatics pipeline training. Fellows made scientific presentations at numerous conferences attended by scientists, graduate students, growers, consultants, the general public, etc. For example, Fellow Ohletz presented her work at two annual North Carolina Commodities Conferences; two annual joint meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of American and Soil Science Society of America; and two annual meetings of the Soil Science Society of North Carolina. Details of these for all fellows can be found in the Target Audience and Products sections. To date, three refereed scientific journal articles were published and several more are soon to be submitted. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
A multi-pronged national recruiting effort was undertaken in Year 1. The recruiting effort comprised distribution of National Needs Fellowship informational flyers and recruitment packets to colleagues at institutions across the U.S., and distribution of recruitment packages and appointments at several national scientific meetings. For example, a recruitment packet was sent to all members of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America Diversity in Agronomy, Crops, Soils and Environmental Sciences committee for them to distribute at their institutions and elsewhere. We contacted and supplied recruitment materials to: faculty from nineHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), both state and private, and one a women's college; Minority Serving Institutions such as Texas A&M - Kingsville (high Hispanic student population); and other small institutions. A website was constructed as a recruiting tool for prospective NNF fellows. The site contained a description, requirements, and instructions on how to apply. Our three National Needs Fellows matriculated into Ph.D. programs at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Fall 2017. Each was matched with a grant PI and a collaborator from NNF grant faculty. Project meetings were held regularly. Meeting topics included course planning (graduate plans of work) especially focusing on the interdisciplinary course options for the Fellows. Special attention was given to matching students with interdisciplinary courses that enhanced the breadth of their training and scholarship. Examples of this included Fellow Scarboro (Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering) taking a course in Biochemistry, and Fellows Liebelt (Major: Biochemistry) and Ohletz (Major: Soil Science) taking an Electrical and Computer Engineering course in Photonics. These courses were also directly related to their research projects. Project meetings were held regularly at which each fellow gave a presentation of their research project to provide updates to the group. All fellows completed their project-required internships. Ohletz: Soil Health Institute, Morrisville, NC; Scarboro, Syngenta Crop Protection, Durham, NC; Liebelt: Benson Hill Biosystems, St. Louis, MO. Fellow Ohletz completed her dissertation, "Understanding Nutrient Status of High Yielding Corn Varieties Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Corn Yield Contest Data" and earned her Ph.D. Shortly thereafter, she accepted a position as an Assistant Agent with NC Cooperative Extension. Fellow Scarboro made good progress in his graduate program, having completed all of his course work and Ph.D. qualifying exam in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His program will continue for ~1 year funded by other sources including funding from the private sector for work on spectral and polarimetric imaging. One fellow withdrew from her Ph.D. program due to personal reasons. She did complete an M.S. prior to her departure: "Analysis of Temporal and Tissue Specific Humulus lupulus Isoforms by Long-Read Sequencing." She subsequently found employment at Lumen Biosciences in Seattle, WA.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Scarboro, C.G., and M.W. Kudenov. 2020. Multispectral Imaging for Detection of Gray Mold in Plants. NCSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Association Research Symposium. January 16, 2020. Raleigh, NC.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Scarboro,C.G., and M.W. Kudenov. 2020. Correcting for Bidirectional Reflectance in Hyperspectral Imagery using Polarized Light. Light-for-Life (L4L) seminar series. August 14, 2020. NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Scarboro, C.G., and M.W. Kudenov. 2020. Mueller matrix pBRDF Spectropolarimeter applied to measurements of Zea Mays leaves. Virtual Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing XIV conference as part of the "SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing" symposium, April 26-30, 2020. Anaheim, CA.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Ohletz, J.L., and J.G. White. 2020. Understanding field-grown corn nutrient status of high-yielding growers of NC. Soil Sci. Society of NC Annual Mtg, Jan. 21-22, 2020. Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Scarboro, C.G., S.M. Ruzsa, C.J. Doherty, and M.W. Kudenov. 2020. Detection of Gray Mold Infection in Plants Using a Multispectral Imaging System. Plant Direct. Pre-print: bioRxiv 2020.04.23.051300 (2020).
- Type:
Theses/Dissertations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Ohletz, J.L. 2020. Understanding Nutrient Status of High Yielding Corn Varieties Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Corn Yield Contest Data. Ph.D. dissertation. www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/38250. NC State University, Raleigh.
- Type:
Theses/Dissertations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Liebelt, D.J. 2020. Analysis of Temporal and Tissue Specific Humulus lupulus Isoforms by Long-Read Sequencing. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/37480. M.S. Thesis. NC State University, Raleigh.
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Progress 06/15/18 to 06/14/19
Outputs
Target Audience:Several project-initiated seminars were attended by NCSU faculty and students. These included presentations by industry representativess and faculty colleagues. A poster reporting one Fellow's research was shared with attendees at the NC Commodities Conference sponsored bythe Corn Growers Assoc. of NC, the NC Cotton Producers Association, the NC Small Grain Growers Assoc., and the NC Soybean Producers Assoc; attendeesincluded growers, consultants, extension agents, scientists, and local, state and University representatives. Posters were also displayed at the annual meetings of the Crop Science Society of America andthe American Society of Agronomy: attendees included scientists, students, consultants, extension agents, etc. A similar audience attended the Soil Science Society of NC where one Fellow shared a research poster. One Fellowgave two seminarsat the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) New England Summer Conference; the audience included growers, agents, students, and the general public. One Fellow presented her research at several professional society and technical meetings including the Phytochemical Soc. of North America and the Society for Experimental Biology, among others. The primary audiences at these meetings were scientists and graduate students.She also presented posters and talks at the NCSU Biochemistry Research Syposium, the NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium, and the NCSU Plant Biology Research Symposium. The primary audience was graduate students, faculty, and college and university administrators. The same Fellow was a guest speaker at a local high school and a volunteer at an elementary school science night. Through these activities, our audience was extended to include elementary and secondary school teachers, students, staff, and parents. Changes/Problems:A no-cost extension was approved for a new project end date of 12/14/2020. Project Director was changed from Dr. Garry Grabow to co-PI Dr. Jeffrey G. White upon the retirement of Dr. Grabow. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?One Fellowwas one of 36 grad students chosen nationwide toparticipate inthe "Team Science Cross-Disciplinary Problem-Solving & Research Training for Graduate students," a collaboration between Sea-Grant Virginia, UVA,VA Institute of Marine Science, andVA Commonwealth University. She also servedas chair of the NC State University Graduate Student Advisory Council on Professional Development, and as the president of the Crop and Soil Sciences Graduate Student Association. She also partcipated in a commodity conference and in the annual ASA-CSSA meetings, where she made presentations and took part in a professional development program. She also had the opportunity to teach three sections of a basicsoils lab with supervision and mentoring by a senior faculty member. One Fellow trained and mentored an undergrad in an independant research project. The Fellowwas mentored in proposal writing and manuscript preparation. She attended several agriculture-biotech networking events and participated in national scientific society conferences/events, including a workshopfor young investigators. All three Fellows participated in the NCSU Accelerate to Industry (A2I) workshops, a workforce readiness program which included strategies like resume writing, interviewing, networking, and personal branding.All Fellows had the opportunity to work with graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines, including agronomy/soil science, biochemistry, and optical engineering. One Fellow completed her required internship working at the Soil Health Institute and another began an internship with Syngenta Crop Protection. Another Fellow participated in aworkshop for an NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center project held toidentify problems in agriculture that engineering sensors and data could be tailored to resolve. He also participated in a RiseEnAg (Rapid Innovations in System Engineering and Agricultural Sustainability) stakeholder workshop where agriculture sector needs were identified and potential technological solutions discussed. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Fellows have made scientic presentations at numerous conferences attended by scientists, graduate students, growers, consultants, the general public, etc. as reported in the products and target audience sections. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Project meetings will be held regularly for the Fellows to present progress reports on theirresearch and coursework. Fellows will continue to make presentations at scientific and commodity conferences and work toward refereed journal publications. We will continue to organize and host seminars on topics aligned with project goals and objectives. Fellows willcontinue interships. Fellows will complete the majority of their studies and make major strides in completing their dissertations.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The threeFellows continued making good progress in their graduate programs. One Fellow completed his PhD qualifying review, finalizedan interdisciplinary advisory committee, and had his plan of work approved. AnotherFellow completed all of her coursework, absent research and seminar credits.One Fellow completed her fellowshop-requiredinternship at the Soil Health Institute, Morrisville, NC., and another is interning at Syngenta Crop Protection. One Fellow received supplementary funding from the private sector for work on spectral and polarimetric imaging. Two Fellows gave multiple presentations at professional conferences and one published a refereed journal article.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
White, J.G., and J. Martin. 2018. Are Nutrient Deficiencies Limiting High Yield? Tissue and Soil Analysis of NC Corn Yield Contest Entries. Poster presentation at the annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Soc. of America, Nov. 9-13, 2018. Baltimore, MD.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
White, JG. and J. Martin. 2019. Are Nutrient Deficiencies Limiting High Yield? Tissue and Soil Analysis of NC Corn Yield Contest Entries. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Soil Science Society of NC, Jan. 17-18, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
White, JG. and J. Martin. 2019. Are Nutrient Deficiencies Limiting High Yield? Tissue and Soil Analysis of NC Corn Yield Contest Entries. Poster presentation at the NC Commodities Conference, January, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Martin, J.L., J.G. White, and M. Kudenov. 2018. Detecting Diurnal Changes to Corn Leaf Canopy Reflectance with Hyperspectral Spectroscopy. Poster presentation at the annual meetings of the American Soc. of Agronomy and the Crop Science Soc. of America, Nov. 9-13, 2018. Baltimore, MD.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Martin, J.L., J.G. White, and M. Kudenov. 2019. Detecting Diurnal Changes to Corn Leaf Canopy Reflectance with Hyperspectral Spectroscopy.Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Soil Science Society of NC, Jan. 17-18, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Martin, J.L., J.G. White, and M. Kudenov. 2019. Detecting Diurnal Changes to Corn Leaf Canopy Reflectance with Hyperspectral Spectroscopy. Poster presentation at the NC Commodities Conference, January, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Martin, J. 2018. Hands-on Melon Grafting Workshop. Seminar presentation at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) New England Summer Conference August 10-12, 2018.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Martin, J. 2018. Soil fertility basics: The Soil Food Web. Seminar presentation at the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) New England Summer Conference August 10-12, 2018.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2018. Time, Temperature, and the Secret Life of Plants at Night. Phytochemical Society of North America Meeting, San Luis Polosti, Mexico.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2018. Hot Topics in the Agribusiness center. Ally Law Meeting Agricultural Focus Panel, Montreal, Canada.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2018. Plants in the Fourth Dimension: The intersection of time, temperature, and a changing climate. Time Across Scales of Biology Seminar Series, Duke University, Durham, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2019. Time and Temperature: How plants respond to stress in the fourth dimension. Danforth Center, St. Louis, MO.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2019. In the Heat of the Night. NC Biotechnology Center Agricultural Tech Professional Forum Climate Change Series, Morrisville, NC.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2019. Examining the Plasticity of Gene Regulatory Networks to Improve Crop Tolerance to Temperature Stress. Society for Experimental Biology meeting, Seville, Spain.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Liebelt et al. 2019. Only a matter of time: the impact of daily and seasonal rhythms on phytochemicals. Phytochemistry Reviews doi.org/10.1007/s11101-019-09617-z
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Progress 06/15/17 to 06/14/18
Outputs
Target Audience:Besides the students (Fellows) themselves who are the focus of this project, other target audiences reached this year include, other students within the Fellows' home academic departments, high school students, North Carolina growrers (commodity crops) and industry. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Fellow Martin was accepted to the 2018 Cross-Disciplinary Problem-Solving professional development program sponsored by Virginia Sea Grant (VASG), the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), and the University of Virginia (UVA). The program commenced summer of 2018. Fellow Martin also became a member of the Graduate School Advisory Council for Professional Development. Regular project meetings have allowed Fellows to practice presentation skills while communicating their research progress and results. Fellow Liebelt has established industry research collaboration with Benson Hill Biosystems. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Outreach accomplishments included efforts within the Fellows home academic department, outreach to high school students and collaboration with industry. Fellow Janel Martin presented her work at the 29th Annual North Carolina Commodities Conference. Fellow Donna Liebelt gave a presentation on "Biotechnology in Agriculture" to high school students, and also mentored a high school student with imaging and informatics pipeline training. She also reached out to the academic community with an interdepartmental presentation "Metabolism in time". Fellow Leibelt under the guidance of PI Doherty, established ndustry collaboration with Benson Hill Biosystems. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Project meetings are being planned for the next academic year, to continue cross-disciplinary mentoring of Fellows, provide opportunities for students to present their research to Project PIs and fellow students, and to plan seminars with the goal of bringing in industry experts to campus.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Three National Needs Fellows matriculated into PhD programs at North Carolina State University in Fall semester 2017. Each was matched with a grant PI and a collaborator from NNF grant faculty. Project meetings were coordinated by PI Doherty, and occurred on 11/14/2017, 02/23/2018, and 04/06/2018 and 05/18/2018. Meeting topics included course planning (plan of work) especially focusing on the interdisciplinary course options for the Fellows. Special attention was given to matching students with interdisciplinary courses that enhance the Fellows' academic and training breadth. Examples of this include Fellow Scarboro (Electrical and Computer Engineering Major) taking a course in Biochemistry, and Fellow Liebelt (Biochemistry Major) taking an Electrical and Computer Engineering course in Photonics. These courses were also directly related to their research projects. At each meeting, each fellow gave a presentation of their research project to provide updates to the group. Other accomplishments included opportunities for professional development, and outreach as detailed in subsequent sections.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Desai, J, Erin Davis, E, Fredenberg, J, Liebeldt, D, Gray, B, Jagadish, K, Wilkins, O, Doherty, CJ. 2018. Image Analysis and Classification to Evaluate Setaria viridis as a Model System for Flower Opening Time in review
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Progress 06/15/16 to 06/14/17
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience reached were prospective national needs fellows. Primarily this audience was comprised of, black and hispanic students, and female students. However outreach in recruiting was not restricted only to these populations. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Three National Needs Fellows have matricutulated into PhD programs at North Carolina State Univeristy in Fall semester 2017. A seminar series has been planned and the first one was held in September of 2017. Fellows have been matched with their PIs and a collaborator PI. Potential industry partners have been contacted for possible participation in the seminar series and from which to explore potential training and internship possibilities with the fellows. In addition to planning their graduate plan of work, the fellows will begin their research programs under their faculty committee chairs, which programs are to include the resources offered by the AMPLIFY platform.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
A multi-pronged national recruiting effort was undertaken in year 1. The recruiting effort comprised distribution of National Needs Fellowship informational flyers and recruitment packets to colleagues at institutions across the U.S., and distribution of recruitment packages and appointments at several national scientific meetings. For example, a recruitment packet was sent to all members of the American Society of Agronomy-Crop Science Society of America-Soil Science Society of America Diversity in Agronomy, Crops, Soils and Environmental Sciences committee for them to distribute at their institutions and elsewhere. Faculty from 9 HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities-both state and private, and 1 a women's college), and Minority Serving Institutions such as Texas A&M - Kingsville (high Hispanic student population) and other small institutions were contacted and supplied with recruiting material for their students and contacts. A website was constructed as a recruiting tool for prospective NNF fellows. The site contained a description, requirements, and instructions on how to apply. See http://usdannf.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
Publications
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