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Advancing Agricultural Research through High-Performance Computing

Overview

The Advancing Agricultural Research through High-Performance Computing (AAR-HPC) project is a collaborative agreement between Mississippi State University and the USDA-Agriculture Research Service (ARS). The goal of the AAR-HPC project is to address some of today's most pressing agriculture and food security issues through the creation of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary science "hub" designed to answer challenging questions in areas such as disease ecology, epidemiology, and landscape agroecology. This hub will be uniquely poised to develop and apply analytical, numerical, and computing technologies within a Big Data Paradigm to answer challenging questions such as:

  • What are the biotic and environmental drivers of the spread of infectious diseases in plants and animals across complex landscapes?

  • How can emerging technologies like sensors, unmanned aerial system imagery, and machine learning be applied to predict dynamics of disease across spatial scales from sub-organismal to landscape, regional and global?
To learn more about this project you can visit the project story map at: https://arcg.is/1eW9yr0

Project Personnel

Dr. Robert Moorhead, Principal Investigator
Director
Geosystems Research Institute
Mississippi State University
Dr. Bindu Nanduri, Co-Investigator
Associate Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Mississippi State University
Dr. Dana Morin, Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor
Wildlife, Fisheries, & Aquaculture
Mississippi State University
Dr. Garrett Street, Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor
Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Mississippi State University
Dr. Brian Smith, Co-Investigator
Associate Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Mississippi State University

Funding

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sponsor no. 902010362 – USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS).

Period of Performance

September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2023