New Agriculture Possible Workshop Topics

Possible Workshop Topics

1. Agronomics, Digital and Precision Agriculture, Urban Controlled Environment Agriculture, Systems Informatics and Analytics-Climate Change, Sustainability, Productivity, Competitiveness, Intelligence, and Nexus of Food/Energy/Water Systems (FEWS) 

• Agricultural and applied economics
• Biomimicry
• Biometry
• Sustainable agriculture
  
• Sustainable development and economic-social impacts
• Forest mensuration, modelling and forecasting
• Forests and climate change
• Urban trees and greenspace in a changing climate
• Sustainability in
 water, energy, urban, food, forest, land, and ecological systems
• Upstream human behavior and downstream ecosystem services
  
• Ecological engineering
• Ecological agriculture
• Wildlife ecology
• Wildlife conservation and management
• Marine macroalgal ecology
• Agricultural and biosystems management
• Agroecology, sustainable and secure food systems
• Biometeorology
• Climate change adaptation
• Agriculture and climate change
• Global climate change and ecosystems
• Climate informatics.
• Sustainable agriculture, forestry and climate
• Climate change and environmental ecology
  
• Greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, etc.)
  
• Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions sources (agricultural soil management, enteric fermentation, manure management, carbon dioxide from fossil fuel consumption, etc.)
  
• Agricultural greenhouse gas sinks (forest management practices, CO2 flux from agricultural soils, etc. )
  
• Greenhouse intelligent control system
• Intelligent agriculture
• Expert system in agriculture
• Agricultural economics and policy
  
• Economic perspectives for agriculture and forestry
• Forest management
• Electronic commerce technology for agricultural products
• Agricultural transportation, distribution and marketing
• Agri-tourism and other new mode
• New media in agriculture
• Photonics in agriculture
• Computational agriculture
• Computer simulation, optimization and modeling
• Internet of things for agriculture
• Food traceability - from farm to smartphone to table
• Intelligent control for agriculture system
• Biological Engineering Sensor Technologies (sensors and instruments for applications in biological, agricultural, food, and environment engineering)
• Smart robotic sensors arms for localized precise measurements
• Cloud control in agriculture system
• Distributing control and control networks in agriculture
• Agriculture modernization model and technology integration
• Digital and Precision and agriculture

• Data analysis and analytics systems applied to agricultural processes. 

• Precision agriculture systems, including sensing, data collection and analysis, decision-making, and IoT. 

• Weather and climate monitoring and prediction systems in the context of agriculture, and new applications of weather/climate data. 

• Agricultural robotics, including drones and equipment automation. 

• Image processing of agricultural data, including satellite and in-field data. 

• Processing of genomic data used in applications of agriculture. 

• Electronic cattle monitoring systems, including hardware, data collection, and analysis. 

• Soil and water data sensing, processing, and analysis. 

• Autonomous vehicles in agricultural scenarios. 

• Agriculture and food logistic chains sensing, data analysis, provenance systems, and optimization. 

• Augmented and virtual reality systems applied to agriculture. 

• Cognitive assistants to farmers, agronomics engineers, laborers, and other workers in the agricultural production chains. 

• Human factors and interface design in the context of digital agriculture systems. 

• Software and API service platforms and middleware support for digital agriculture. 

• Machine vision and navigation technology

• Detecting and sensors
• IoT sensors in Agriculture
• Bio-sensors, bio-instrumentation, bio-informatics and bio-nanotechnology
• Sensors and information systems for precision agriculture, remote sensing
• Smart sensor array system
• Sensor application in managing in-season crop variability
• Precision farming technologies, equipment and instruments
• Remote sensing applications in precision agriculture
• Crop monitoring and precision agriculture
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Food Computers
• High-throughput phenotyping
• Precision conservation management
• Precision nutrient management
• Proximal sensing in precision agriculture
• Remote sensing for natural ecosystems, agriculture, and hydrology
• Remote sensing techniques for water environment
• Geospatial-information science and remote sensing
• Optical properties and remote sensing of inland and coastal waters

• Standards and safety engineering

• Risk management  
• Flood risk management
• Emerging issues in precision agriculture (energy, biofuels, climate change, standards)
• Sensor-controlled Hydroponic and Aeroponic Agriculture Systems.
• Automation and robotics in agriculture
• Agricultural robots
• Auto-guidance systems
• Mechatronics and robotics
• Robotic farm swarms
• Water-Energy-Food Nexus

2. Food Security and Safety-Plant/Animal Production, Protection, Processing, Distribution, Utilization, and Resource Recovery

Part A: Food

• Agricultural safety and health
• Bioagricultural sciences
• Metabolic engineering
• Protein engineering
• Synthetic biology
• Green farming and organic agriculture
• Agricultural products processing
• Food security and precision agriculture
• Transgenic technologies
• Food safety engineering: inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by using novel non-thermal processing technologies

• Food and process engineering

• Food science, quality and safety
• Food microbiology
• Multifunctional food
• Food & Bioprocess
  
• Food nanoscale engineering
• Nanoparticles in food
  
• Emerging technologies in sterilization and pasteurization

Part B: Animal

• Animal science
• Animal vaccine
• Gamete biology
• Embryology
• Animal cloning
• Stem cell research
• Reproductive biology
• Pathobiology
• Molecular biology
• Fungal genetics and molecular biology
• Value-added biotransformation
• Gene regulation, comparative genomics, sequence analysis, evolution
• Bioinformatics and statistical genetics
• Next generation sequencing
• Developmental biology
• Developmental epigenetics
• Veterinary and biomedical sciences
• Biological sciences and biomedical engineering
• Physiology and immunology
• Reproductive physiology
• Infectious diseases (bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology) and public health
• Animal disease research and diagnostics, surveillance, epidemiology and control
• Animal and human health for the environment and development
• Avian medicine and pathology
  
• Avian diseases and biology
• Livestock and poultry breeding
• Livestock farming
• Livestock genomics
• Sustainable farm animal breeding and reproduction technology
• Precision dairy and livestock management
• Sustainable pest management
• Management and behaviour of farm and companion animals
• Feed processing
• Carcass and meat science
• Chemical toxicology
• Crop and livestock biotechnology
• Nutrition and metabolism
• Nutritional immunology
• Aquaculture science and technology
• Systems translational aquabiology
• Fish research
• Shrimp immune system
  
• Host/pathogen interaction in shrimp and fish
  
• CryobFish
• Fisheries science and management
• Physiology and ecologyiology
• Fishing technology 
  
• Fishery oceanography and GIS
• Genetics and breeding
• Fisheries resource conservation
  
• Fish population analysis
• Entomology & nematology

Part C: Plant

• Plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology)
• Seed science
• Seed physiological
  
• Seed and nursery
• Horticulture (sustainable landscapes, fruits, and vegetables) 
• Landscape architecture
• Vegetable physiology and production
• Fruit physiology
• Flower physiology
• Heat stress physiology
• Weed ecology & management
  
• Mycology and mushroom science
  
• Crop management and physiology
• Precision crop protection
• Contemporary crop stress research
• AgriGenomics and plant breeding
• Crop genomics
  
• Crop molecular breeding
  
• Crop genetic engineering
  
• Plant defense mechanism
• Stress tolerance gene selection
• Molecular plant stress biology
  
• Integrative plant stress biology
• Plant and algal physiology
• Algal molecular biology
• Plant pathology and plant microbe biology
• Plant growth and development
• Microbial biology
  
• Microbial genomics
• Functional genomics
• Pathogens
• Molecular and cellular plant-microbe interactions
• Plant molecular biology & virology
• Plant breeding & genetics
• Plant molecular genetics
  
• Plant cell and tissue culture
  
• Plant stress physiology
  
• Plant insect interaction
  
• Plant resistant to insects
• Plant hormone regulation
  
• Plant molecular biology
• Plant molecular farming
• PLant Propagation
• Biology and epidemiology of foliar pathogens
• Plant cross-protection (using genetic, molecular, cellular, biochemical, genomic, and proteomic approaches)
• Plant disease management
• Plant resistance to insects
• Plant-insect interaction
• Plant medicine
• Herbal medicine research
• Next generation plant image processing algorithms
• Gene-deletor technology
• Genetics of flower bulbs
• Flower crop cultivation and management
  
• Horticultural crop breeding
  
• Precision horticulture
• Viticulture and enology
• B2B marketing - bioproducts industries
• Micro/Nanofabrication of Chinese medicine

3. Energy Security-Supply, Demand, Conservation, and Renewable Sources

• Utilization of clean and renewable energy resources (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, etc.)
• Bioenergy and bioproducts from renewable sources
  
• Renewable biocomposite materials
• Biofuels
  
• Biomass and renewable energy
• Biodigesters for waste treatment
  
• Algae production
• Bio-butanol production
• BioSeparations
• Nanocellulose
• Cellulose synthesis
  
• Anaerobic digestion
  
• Biopolyols and polyurethane
• Integrated farming and bioenergy
• Renewable energy and sustainable agriculture
• Fermentation/Bioprocessing: bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste commodities into value added products
• Smart grid and smart grid security
• Artificial intelligence in power systems
• Power system stability, control, and optimization
• Building energy
  
• Building integrated photovoltaic systems
  
• Next-gener
• ciency measures for buildings
  

• Power and machinery

4. Environment, Air, Food, Soil Science, and Water Security-Supply, Demand, Conservation, and Quality Improvement/Assurance

• Environmental change and ecology
• Bioenvironmental engineering/ecosystem modeling
• Environmental biophysics
• Water resources economics and policy
• Environmental – Soil & Water
• Microbe-Environment Nexus
  
• Agriculture and air quality
• Agricultural air quality research
• Agriculture and global warming
  
• Agriculture and climate change
• Biogeochemical and ecological processes in forest and agricultural systems

• Forest engineering

• Natural resources and environmental engineering
• Water resources and environmental engineering

• Biological engineering

• Microbiological Engineering
• Environmental microbiology
• Waste management and the protection of the environment
• Agricultural waste treatment engineering
• Animal manure management
• Environmental permitting and remediation
• Plant and animal environments
• Hydroinformatics
• Hydrology and hydroclimatology
• Hydro-hazard simulations
• Climate change hydrology
• Groundwater hydrology
• Stochastic hydrology
• Hydrology meteorology
  
• Heuristic algorithms and water resources management
• Land hydrological processes
  
• Hydrogeochemical models
• Water conservation and conjunctive management of water resources
• Nonpoint source pollution control
  
• Assessment of water availability including climate variability and impacts

• Water resources management (hydrology, irrigation, drainage, water quality)

• Water quality in the distribution system
• Interaction of atmospheric, surface waters and groundwater
• Well hydraulics and groundwater management
• Water resources Database and GIS
• Water resources and natural hazard protection
• Water hazard mitigation and associate managements
• Freshwater ecosystems (rivers, lakes and wetlands)
  
• River flow and reservoir management
  
• Sustainable watershed management
• Wastewater and recycle
• Biological treatment processes and wastewater reclamation for TFT-LCD wastewaters
  
• Biological wastewater treatment
• Biological treatment proceses in drinking water system
• Agricultural wastewater treatment
• Microbial communities and their performance in biological nutrient removal system
• Biocatalysis for water treatment and reuse
• Food processing wastewater treatment
• Fate and transport of chemicals in hydrologic systems
• Fate and control of pollutants in soils and water
• Fate of emerging contaminants in biological wastewater treatment systems
• The application of membrane processes for water treatment
• Water treatment technology for high-tech industry
• Agronomy (pathology, soil management, and weed science)
• Environmental soil sciences (biogeochemistry, hydrology, and plant-soil interactions)
• Sustainable soil and water resources
• Soil and water resources conservation
• Soil-water environment and ecosystem
• Application of environmental biotechnology in soil and groundwater bioremediation
  
• Crop and soil sciences
• Soil management
• Soil compaction: causes, effects and control
• Soil physics
  
• Soilborne pathogens
• Soil microbiology

• Structures and environment

• Green building
• Hydroponics
• Horticultural engineering
• Controlled environment agriculture engineering
• Rooftop greening
• Vertical farming (Urban farming)
  
• Urban agriculture