innovative educational methodologies, development of self-awareness and emotional intelligence as a precursor to effective leadership practice, Challenge 2050
culinary instruction that emphasizes resource efficiency, nutrition, convenience, and affordability by working with local growers, schools, and program partners
generating economically viable and environmentally friendly technologies, practices, and production marketing systems, economics of water conservation, IPM practices, and management of invasive species
recovery and enrichment of phytonutrients from agricultural wastes or bioproducts, bioactivity and bioavailability of phytonutrients from fruits and vegetables
climate change and sea level rise adapation and mitigation planning, hydrology, water quality, and agricultural conservation practices of South Florida
human dimensions of wildlife conservation, enviornmental communications, public awareness, wildlife management, attitudes and behaviors, ecological systems
plant pathogen-vector interactions, omics approaches to investigate the tritrophic interaction of vector-borne diseases in citrus, RNAi, vector development and transmission of pathogens
phylogenomic discovery, nitrogen fixation, bioenergy woody crops, poplar, genome and transcriptome-baseed prediction, regulator inference of molecular and whole-plant phenotypes, pine feedstocks for bioenergy and renewable chemicals, genome-wide selection
management practices for nutrient use efficiency and crop production, minimizing impacts on ecosystems, development of fertilizers and management practices
treating nutrition related chronic diseases, develop interventions to support healthy living with nutritional and behavioral strategies, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
marine fisheries, fish population dynamics, trophic dynamics, reef fish barotrauma, fishery-independent population estimation, lionfish, Deepwater Horizon oil spill
design, operation and optimization of anaerobic digestion process for conversion of organic residues and wastes to biogas biofuel, sustainable production of algal biomass for waste treatment and as feedstock for biofuel production
Improving pre- and postharvest practices to maximize quality of fresh citrus and maintain market access, Improve produce quality retention through improved postharvest handling
embryo development under normal and abnormal conditions, traits that improve peripartum health and reporduction in dairy cows, nutritional requirments for dairy cows
water sustainability of agriculture (vegetable, cattle, citrus), water and nutrient management strategies, payment for ecosystem services, agricultural water storage
sustainable biopolymer synthesis and self-assembling, conversion of lignocelluloses to high value bioproducts (materials, drop-in fuels, and chemicals)
citrus HLB, interactions of Las and citrus using a CRISPR-Cas system, citrus canker control, manipulating the ebe (effector binding element) of canker susceptibilitygene cslob1
forecasting ecological systems, local to global scales, data-intensive approaches, cross-scale integrative biodiversity modeling, ecological forcasting