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Mahesh is interested in understanding how agronomic management practices and underlying physiological mechanisms affect yield and yield components in row crops. His research focuses on agronomic and physiological studies in Brassica carinata with a focus on nutrient management for improved crop production and profitability.
Agustin is pursuing a Ph.D. in Turfgrass Science with an emphasis on ecology, plant physiology, environmental stresses, fertilizers, and turfgrass management. His dissertation project focuses on better understanding the influence of anthropogenic ecosystems on factors such as groundwater recharge, nutrient fate, temperature abatement, and carbon dynamics
Gabriel is interested in the propagation, production, and re-vegetation of native plants, especially sandhill milkweed (Asclepias humistrata). His research integrates horticulture principles and ecosystem restoration practices, with a focus on coastal dune plants of the Florida panhandle.
Sherri is interested in native bee conservation and will be studying the Gulf Coast Solitary Bee, Hesperapis oraria. She will also be studying the ecology of pollinators that co-occur with the bee including interactions with it's host plant Balduina angustifolia. Hesperapis oraria is endemic to the dunes of the Northern Gulf coast of Florida, Alabama and a few locations in Mississippi and is believed to be monolectic with Balduina. In her free time, Sherri enjoys being a Master Beekeeper and Welsh Honey Judge while tending her own hive and educating others about the importance bees of all kinds.
Ruby is interested to see how winter Brassica carinata production influences winter and summer weed emergence within existing crop rotations. Her research integrates agronomic and ecological aspects of weed management for finding the ways to develop weed management stability over time within carinata cropping systems.
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Jiahua is interested in how sea level rise and increased hydrologic variability will affect estuary salinity in the 21st Century. His research employs complex statistical methods and hydrodynamic estuary modeling and applies these methods to estuaries in Florida’s Gulf Coast.
