Bryan Runck

We use Technology Readiness Levels in my lab. Helps structure thinking and expectations for tech. It was a pleasure sharing about this work scaling real-time geospatial systems @UMNHorticulture @CFANS @GEMSInformatics @UMNresearch #agtech TRLs >> nasa.gov/directorates/h…

Installing the winter study sensor today. These sensors will measure oxygen, carbon dioxide, moisture, sunlight, and soil temperature. The data compiled will help us all learn more about winter injury. @UMNTurf @erictwatkins @mdacostaUMASS @Cornell_Turf @GCSAA @CAGCS1929 @MetGCSA

Don't miss this issue of Hole Notes featuring Bryan Runck's (@runckb) article "WinterTurf Environmental Sensing Going Global: Understanding the Drivers of Winter Kill"!

Let’s be a bit cautious. AI Foundation models in ag *could* be revolutionary. They could also be extremely bad, providing reasonable-looking but wrong and unverifiable predictions. Slow and steady wins the race. newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM…

Working on a chapter on Plant Cognition for my book "Liquid brains". Germination is one of the most exciting phenomena, which involves decision-making and dealing with future uncertainties. Overwhelmed by the diversity of seeds, biological time capsules that compute their worlds.

Which ag soils can sequester a lot of carbon? And how much can they sequester? ARS scientists & partners improve these predictions with data-augmented public databases. A crucial tactic for mitigating climate change and improving food security. Learn more: loom.ly/N4gXErM

Underestimating farmers and soil C by soils grids: let's get out and document the real SOC status! #ClimateAction #farmeragency #savesoils

|| NEW RESEARCH || Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated 📄 bit.ly/3WkJJGG @sieg_SAS @runckb @XinyiTuSoil @RegisChikowo

Colorado State University will host a 10 day short course “Bayesian Models for Ecological Data” from June 5 – June 16, 2023. There is no tuition and travel costs will be partially covered. See nrel.colostate.edu/projects/bayes… for details and how to apply. Please share widely!

@GabrielPopkin @JoeBiden @FERNnews There’s a land use cost for seed production too nature.com/articles/s4200…

Cover crops might be the most hyped "climate-smart agriculture" practice, with everyone up to @JoeBiden encouraging farmers to plant them. But do they actually fight climate change? I investigate for @FERNnews thefern.org/2022/12/a-pill…

Temperature is dropping time to get research sensors in the ground for Winterturf @UMNTurf @MarquetteGolf

Taking a look at data coming in from recently deployed #WinterTurf sensor nodes. New interface for viewing data is great--excellent work by @GEMSInformatics sensing team @runckb @adama222 and others

Finally got the sensors in the ground for the 2022/23 winter kill study! Looking forward to seeing all the data in the coming years. @UMNTurf Thank you again to @erictwatkins and his team for this opportunity to participate!

@okafor_izuoscar Thanks Oscar and that’s fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

@runckb Congratulations to your family. In the part of the world where I come from, the middle name 'Ada' is a title for first daughter. Cheers to Ada Elizabeth.

My wife and I welcomed Ada Elizabeth into our family this morning. Everyone’s tired but healthy and well. Very thankful.

@methylcytosine News and views on this topic nature.com/articles/s4155…

To measure change in soil #carbon: sample T-zero vs ~5yrs, right? Or use space-for-time design? Turns out there’s a problem w that.. @ESlessarev describes two artifacts that exaggerate importance of initial SOC stocks doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… A big issue for soil #CDR calcs??

We're celebrating today! The first round of v3 System Flight loggers and sensors has arrived. Designed by @adama222; manufactured by @CaltronicsEMS. Used to collect data with: @Irrigation_UMN, @UMNTurf, pesticide drift risk, and weather. Funding @mnenrtf, @USDA_NIFA, @UMNews

Here is my deep-dive on weather - an attempt to demystify the weather industry and weather observations from space. 3 infographics to help digest the content: #1 An overview of the weather operating stack - including the public and private sector (as always, non-exhaustive)