Progress 09/01/22 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:UVI students interested in hands-on agricultural research. Changes/Problems:COVID-19 closed the campus to students. 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?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Due to COVID-19 the campus was closed to students.
Publications
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Students attending the University of the Virgin Islands interested in learning and conducting hands-on agricultural research. Changes/Problems:COVID-19 closed the campus to students limiting shadowing CES on-farm activities and research and potential for the University of Florida agricultural tour. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Because this was a hands-on student involvement in agricultural research, all aspects involved training as noted above. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Publications and presentations at conferences allowed students to develop leadership skills. Publications are noted previously. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?This is a final report.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Eight undergraduate university student were trained andassisted with the trials. The student was involved in data collection and the use of calipers, metric system, balanced, refractometer and lab equiptment. The student was involved in data analysis and learned the purpose of replication, sample collection, generating averages running ANOVA and generating graphs of the results. Students wrote research proposals, abstracts of results and poster presentations for conferences. Research areas covered included: kale, radish, [itaya, sweetpotato, winged bean and native trees.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Mathurin, D, TW Zimmerman. 2020. Kale leaf growth and water content. https://www.uvi.edu/files/documents/ECS/2020_Fall_Symposium_Program_Book.pdf
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Charles, I, T.W. Zimmerman. 2020. Floral Bud and Fruit Development in Hibiscus sabdariffa. Southern Association of Agricultural Science Conference, Louisville, KY. January 31 February 3, 2020.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Mathurin, K., T.W. Zimmerman. 2020. The Influence of Single and Double Row Sweetpotato Production. HortScience 55(9):S427
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Philbert, M., T.W. Zimmerman. 2020. Influence of Deflowering on Jicama Production. HortScience 55(9):S426.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Sanchez, E., M. Morgan, T.W. Zimmerman. 2020. Asexual propagation of Bucida buceras: Air layering versus Groundlayering. HortScience 55(9):S418.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Richards, Daryl A Jr., Jessica Ewer, Thomas W. Zimmerman. 2022. Radish Potential in the .I. Agfest 2022 p. 32-33.
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:UnUniversity of the Virgin Islands undergraduate students with an interest in Agriculture Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The five University of the Virgin Islands undergraduate students with an interest in Agriculture learned and received experience in scientific techniques used in research. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The students gaveseminars of their research and results that was open to the university community. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to recruits students and provide them with hands-on agricultural research experience.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Through aggressive recruitment, five University of the Virgin Islands undergraduate students with an interest in Agriculture conducted hands-on research with Agricultural Experiment Station staff. The student research for animal science focused on sheep parasite load on Saint Croix White Hair Sheep and their and meatier Dorper hair sheep. The Agroforestry student researched air-layering a federally endanger tree species. The Agronomy student focused studies on soil bulk density from multiple regions on St Croix. The student in the Horticulture program worked on evaluating influence of irrigation rate on soluble solids in melon varieties. The Biotechnology student studied influence of photoperiod on 13 PI lines from the USDA Germplasm repository in Griffin, GA.
Publications
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience is prebachelorette students with an interest in science and/or agriculture from the US Virgin Islands. Changes/Problems:Covid-19 restrictions and vaccination mandate reduced the student enrollment. Also, on-line classes reduced the number of on-campus students. 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?Attend student orientation and job fair to try to recruit students into the hands-on agricultural research opportunity in the UVI-SOA Agricultural Experiment Station.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Due to COVID-19 and the University's on-line learning, students weren' on the UVI campus. This made it difficult to recruit students for hands-on learning agricultural research techniques virtually. Also, enrollment decreased 11% partially due to Covid-19 vaccination mandate. Though the opportunity was posted in the student employment office and on-line, no student had applied until late September.
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