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Community Development and Engagement Program Proposals due July 5, 2021.

Due date extended for MBDH Community Development and Engagement Program Proposals

June 30, 2021

The Community Development and Engagement program is open for proposals through 11:59 p.m. CT July 12, 2021!

The Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub provides support for new community-led initiatives that focus on key data challenges in the Midwest, including building data science educational capacity, bringing together cross-discipline and cross-sector communities that share interests, and removing barriers to data sharing.

This year our focus is on fostering creative partnerships, including:

Grand Farm: seeking Early Career researchers to participate in the Workshop on Big Data and Agricultural Carbon Sequestration

Seeking Early Career researchers for Workshop on Big Data and Agricultural Carbon Sequestration

June 18, 2021

In collaboration with Grand Farm, the Digital Ag UASPSE project (NSF #1636865) is seeking Early Career researchers to participate in the Workshop on Big Data and Agricultural Carbon Sequestration on Wed, July 14, 2021 in Fargo, ND. The workshop will be co-located with Cultivate Conference 2021.
UASPSE will provide travel reimbursement for a limited number of Early Career researchers to attend the workshop and the Cultivate Conference held on the following day, Thursday, July 15, 2021.
Purpose: Gather industry, government, and academic stakeholders with the goal of researcher/industry match making and proposal development around topics related to Big Data and Agricultural Carbon Sequestration, including, but not limited to:

Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative community survey

December 3, 2020

The NIFA-funded Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI, https://www.ag2pi.org/) is conducting a community survey. The focus of AG2PI is to build cross-kingdom research communities to address the challenges of genome to phenome (G2P) research and find opportunities to work together to identify shared critical research gaps. Importantly, this is an opportunity for the community to share with the USDA a vision that may be used to guide future USDA requests for proposals in this space.

2021 Cleveland Water Alliance Data Forum Topics

October 15, 2020

A virtual series presented by Cleveland Water Alliance, the Water Environment Federation, and the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub.

UIUC Leads new USDA-NIFA AI Institute for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability

September 3, 2020

USDA-NIFA AI Institute for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability, led by a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advances AI research in computer vision, machine learning, soft object manipulation and intuitive human-robot interaction to solve major agricultural challenges including labor shortages, efficiency and welfare in animal agriculture, environmental resilience of crops, and the need to safeguard soil health.

Training in Data Science for Agriculture: Foundational Tools for Distance Learning

August 7, 2020

The Iowa State University OVPR IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING OPPORTUNITY: Up to $1000 to cover costs (project coordination, videography, honorarium) associated with the development and delivery of a training session/series/webcast/workshop to build foundational training in data...

Community Development and Engagement Opportunity

June 25, 2020

Community Development and Engagement opportunities. Submissions are now open for our Community Development and Engagement funding opportunities! Partner with us to build a vibrant data science community in the Midwest.

Save the Date: Big Data Promises and Obstacles - Agricultural Data Ownership and Privacy Workshop is June 24

April 24, 2020

Virtual Workshop — Big Data Promises and Obstacles: Agricultural Data Ownership and Privacy

The UASPSE* digital agriculture spoke project of the Midwest Big Data Hub, together with the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences and PepsiCo, are hosting Big Data Promises and Obstacles: Agricultural Data Ownership and Privacy, a virtual workshop on data ownership and privacy as it relates to academic and industry Research and Development in agriculture.

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