Agricultural Data Integration: From Genomics to Unmanned Systems

October 26 - 28, 2017

Content

Overview

Advisory:

Meeting date: October 26
Data carpentry workshop dates: October 27-28

Poster:

SW10.26-28.17_poster.pdf

Organizers:

Sreekala Bajwa	North Dakota State University
Aaron Bergstrom	University of North Dakota
Evan Boucher	University of North Dakota
Diana Dalbotten	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Travis Desell	University of North Dakota
Paul Gunderson	Lake Region State College
Gary Hatfield	South Dakota State University
Mohamed Mokbel	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
John Nowatzki	North Dakota State University
Philip Pardey	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nathan Springer	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

The University of North Dakota’s Office of the Vice President for Research, Computational Research Center, University of Minnesota’s Supercomputing Institute (MSI), and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) are partnering with the Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) to bring together experts from different disciplines on challenges and potential solutions to integrating agricultural data sets.

New methods for sequencing crop genomes, the availability of real-time market data, and an abundance of data streams from remote sensors to unmanned systems have shifted the challenge away from questions concerning how to get data, to questions concerning what to do with it. Agroinformatics researchers today frequently lack the tools and the infrastructure to realize the full potential of these new data sets.

This event aims to build on and complement other MBDH events by focusing on the hub’s cross-cutting priorities, such as data integration and analysis methods and cyberinfrastructure needed to host, secure, and share agricultural data sets. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a one-day meeting with talks by domain experts and an optional two-day, hands-on “data carpentry workshop” on Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28.

The event will be co-located with the first annual region-wide Meetup for “Big Data for UAS and Precision Agriculture Meetups.”

Application

Applicants will need to indicate if they are applying to attend both the one-day meeting and the data carpentry workshop or the one-day meeting only.

Schedule

Thursday, October 26, 2017

8:00 am - 8:45 am	Coffee and registration	Lind 400
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Welcome and introduction	Lind 305
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Towards Spatial Data Science for Smart Agriculture Big Data Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 305
9:35 am - 10:05 am	Robotic Data Gathering for Agricultural Monitoring Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 305
10:10 am - 10:40 am	A deluge of information: Advancing science with big data in the atmospheric sciences Aaron Kennedy (University of North Dakota)	Lind 305
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Data Revolution in Precision Agriculture Sreekala Bajwa (North Dakota State University)	Lind 305
11:20 am - 11:50 am	Precision Agriculture Sensing Systems Qiquan Qiao (South Dakota State University)	Lind 305
11:50 am - 12:00 pm	Group Photo	Lind 305
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Industry panel Jason Cepela (PepsiCo, Inc.), Brian King (International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)), Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), David LeBauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Philip Pardey (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Nathan Springer (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 305
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Midwest Big Data Hub: Activities and collaborations for the Ag-Food-Energy-Water data ecosystem Melissa Cragin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Lind 305
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Break	Lind 400
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Keynote Patrick Schnable (Iowa State University)	Lind 305
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Optional evening events

Friday, October 27, 2017

8:00 am - 8:45 am	Coffee	Lind 400
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Welcome and introduction to software carpentry	Lind 409
9:00 am - 12:00 pm	Morning session	Lind 409
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Afternoon session	Lind 409
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Optional evening event

Saturday, October 28, 2017

8:00 am - 8:45 am	Coffee	Lind 400
9:00 am - 12:00 pm	Morning session	Lind 409
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Afternoon session	Lind 409

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Jason Ackerson	Department of Agronomy	Purdue University
Lori Alfson-Nelson		Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
Sreekala Bajwa	Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering	North Dakota State University
Joshua Baller	Minnesota Supercomputing Institute	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brandon Baumbach	Department of Development and Outreach	Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation
Aaron Bergstrom	Computational Research Center	University of North Dakota
Mark Bookout	Department of IT Research Support Services	Missouri University of Science and Technology
Kevin Brandt	Department of Technology and Security	South Dakota State University
Dennis Buckmaster	Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering	Purdue University
Max Burnette	National Center for Supercomputing Applications	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Cepela		PepsiCo, Inc.
Melissa Cragin	National Center For Supercomputing Applications	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Diana Dalbotten	National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hector Delgado Rodriquez	Department of Dairy Science	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wenbo Dong	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stacy Dreis	Department of Horticulture, Agronomy, and Plant Science	South Dakota State University
Emre Eftelioglu	RSRCH MN Supercomputing Institute	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chris Fasano	Department of Physics	Monmouth College
Paul Gunderson	Dakota Precision Agriculture Center	Lake Region State College
Gary Hatfield	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	South Dakota State University
Volkan Isler	Department of Computer Science & Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Doug Jennewein	Departrment of Information Technology Services	University of South Dakota
Petar Jevtic	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Ali Joglekar	Department of Applied Economics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Michael Johnson		Skyskopes
Maria Kalyvaki	Department of High Performance Computing	South Dakota State University
Aaron Kennedy	Department of Atmospheric Sciences	University of North Dakota
Brian King		International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Christina Koch	Department of Computer Science	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vinod Kumar	Department of Mechanical Engineering	University of Texas at El Paso
Vipin Kumar	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chester Langin	Office of Information Technology	Southern Illinois University
David LeBauer	Carle R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology & National Center for Supercomputing Applications	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Di Liang	Department of Dairy Science	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Qin Ma	Department of Agronomy, Horticulture & Plant Science	South Dakota State University
Chris Malone	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Winona State University
Shefali Mehta		Open Rivers Consulting Associates, LLC
Michael Milligan	MSI Application Development	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ali Moghimi	Department of Bioproducts and Biosys Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brian Moore	Department of Information Technology	South Dakota State University
Camille Moyer	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Claudia Neuhauser	Office of the Vice President for Research	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jennifer Nixon	Department of IT Research Support Services	Missouri University of Science and Technology
Peter Nixon	Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Carrie Olson-Manning	Department of Biology	Augustana University
Philip Pardey	Department of Applied Economics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jaynal Pervez	Department of Information Technology	University of Texas at Dallas
Qiquan Qiao	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	South Dakota State University
Tanya Sand-Driver		Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
Patrick Schnable	Department of Agronomy	Iowa State University
Senait Senay	Department of Applied Economics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Shashi Shekhar	Department of Computer Science & Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kevin Silverstein	Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Matt Sorenson		Webland
Nathan Springer	Department of Plant and Microbial Biology	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Theodore Steinmann II	College of AHCSH Food Protection/Defense	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ann Vallie		Turtle Mountain Community College
Dan Voss	Center for Research Computing	University of Kansas
James Wilgenbusch	Department of Research and Development	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jixiang Wu	Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science	South Dakota State University
Zheng Xu	Department of Statistics	University of Nebraska
Dimitris Zermas	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities