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Geoff Weaver, PhD student in the crop physiology lab just published a paper titled ‘A photochemistry-based method for optimising greenhouse supplemental light intensity’ in BioSystems Engineering. The paper focuses on optimization of supplemental lighting in greenhouses using physiological concepts. Highlights • Electricity use of greenhouse lights can be reduced using dimmable LEDs. • An optimization…
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The Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes a faculty member who has started a company based on research originated at UGA. Marc van Iersel was named the 2019 winner of this prestigious award. Marc van Iersel is the Vincent J. Dooley Professor of Horticulture in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and has spent more than…
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Dr. Marc van Iersel, Dooley Professor of Horticulture, was named a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science at the 2018 annual conference in Washington, DC. Election as a Fellow of the society is the highest honor that ASHS can bestow on its members, in recognition of truly outstanding contributions to horticulture and the Society. Marc…
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Marc van Iersel visited Utah State University and Apogee Instruments in Logan, UT. He was invited by the Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate to give a seminar about his research on the efficiency of lighting in controlled environment agriculture. The seminar was sponsored by Campbell Scientific and Apogee Instruments. You can watch the seminar…
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Candidus Inc., a company co-founded by Drs. Marc van Iersel and Erico Mattos was featured in UGA’s columns newspaper and on-line. The story discusses the role of UGA’s Innovation Gateway in helping to get Candidus, Inc. off the ground. Innovation Gateway focuses on transferring technologies developed at UGA into the marketplace. Candidus, Inc. was founded…
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Dr. Marc van Iersel, who heads up UGA’s horticultural physiology lab, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Porter Henegar Memorial Award by the Southern Nursery Association! Here is the press release from the Southern Nursery Association: Marc van Iersel was born in the Netherlands and exposed to horticulture at a young age, playing…
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Marc van Iersel has been named the ‘Dooley Professor’ in the Department of Horticulture. The Vincent J. Dooley professorship was established by the UGA athletic foundation in honor of former UGA football coach and athletic director Vince ‘Coach’ Dooley. Coach Dooley is an avid gardener and supporter of the horticulture department. This endowed chair is…
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