TALiS Research

A commitment to a healthy planet and healthy people

The Technology for Living Systems Center offers a holistic approach that leverages advanced and emerging technologies to address key challenges in improving productivity and sustainability of crop and livestock systems, managing and expanding our natural resources, ensuring access to clean water, combatting biodiversity losses, and helping rural and urban communities thrive.

What we do

• Leverage technology, artificial intelligence, modeling, and data visualization (including artificial and immersive realities) to support human decision making
• Study the challenges that face farms, forests, wetlands, waterways and cities 
• Improve resiliency of our crops, forests, and community health
• Promote biodiversity 
• Co-develop projects with our stakeholders and focus in at scales that appropriate to our unique landscapes

Research Areas

Livestock and wildlife monitoring

Insect population and community monitoring

Plant disease monitoring

Robotics for management and harvesting

Controlled environment agriculture

Habitat quality monitoring

Modeling for crop management and conservation

Decision support tool development