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
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Data analysis and analytics systems applied to agricultural processes.
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Precision agriculture systems, including sensing, data collection and analysis, decision-making, and IoT.
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Weather and climate monitoring and prediction systems in the context of agriculture, and new applications of weather/climate data.
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Agricultural robotics, including drones and equipment automation.
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Image processing of agricultural data, including satellite and in-field data.
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Processing of genomic data used in applications of agriculture.
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Electronic cattle monitoring systems, including hardware, data collection, and analysis.
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Soil and water data sensing, processing, and analysis.
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Autonomous vehicles in agricultural scenarios.
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Agriculture and food logistic chains sensing, data analysis, provenance systems, and optimization.
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Augmented and virtual reality systems applied to agriculture.
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Cognitive assistants to farmers, agronomics engineers, laborers, and other workers in the agricultural production chains.
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Human factors and interface design in the context of digital agriculture systems.
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Software and API service platforms and middleware support for digital agriculture.
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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
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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
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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
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Power and machinery
4. Environment, Air, Food, Soil Science, and Water Security-Supply, Demand, Conservation, and Quality Improvement/Assurance
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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
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Forest engineering
- Natural resources and environmental engineering
- Water resources and environmental engineering
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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
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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
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Structures and environment
- Green building
- Hydroponics
- Horticultural engineering
- Controlled environment agriculture engineering
- Rooftop greening
- Vertical farming (Urban farming)
- Urban agriculture
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