AgBag is the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute’s latest series of seminar events where respected professors and professionals within their field discuss the latest advancements in the burgeoning field of agricultural technology. CITRIS’s ag-food-tech research initiative with UC Merced’s leading research organizations NSF Engineering Research Center IoT4Ag and UCOP Multi Campus Research Initiative Labor and Automation in California Agricuture (LACA) hosted Distinguished Professor Martin Kenney and Professor Anne Visser to share their work-in-progress on the “Digitalization and Platformization in Agriculture.” I am Miriam Martinez, a third-year Psychology major and the graphic and media intern at CITRIS here to discuss the topics explored in the recent AgBag...

Take flight with the UC Merced Oxygen Fund. The Oxygen Fund is designed to help bring your idea, invention, business, class project, capstone, venture, or hackathon idea to the next step. This award is meant to give you oxygen, or breathing room, to spend time pursuing and developing your project. Through this grant, you can receive mentoring and financial support to give you runway. If you don’t design the future, who will? Up to two Oxygen Fund awards will be granted, and recipients will receive up to $3,000. Each project is limited to submitting to two funding cycles. Applications are accepted twice a year (spring and fall semesters). Deadling to apply: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. Learn more and apply!...

Launched into orbit on September 27th, 2021, Landsat-9 is NASA’s first satellite to take images of the earth in 13 years. Continuing the nearly 50-year legacy of providing tremendous coverage and detail of Earth’s surface, the satellite will work in tandem with Landsat-8 to provide temporal coverage of observations and image the entire Earth every eight days, providing over 700 images per day. Associate Director of CITRIS, Dr. Erin Hestir had the privelege to attend the event in-person and hosted a watch party. Learn more about the Landsat satellite by clicking the image above...

Director of the UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety Brandon Stark and an undergraduate researcher will be supporting the assessment of safety and policy for a new California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) project. A multi-UC endeavor, Stark and his colleagues will study advanced air mobility vehicles, or what one might think of as futuristic flying cars. The project will involve developing a simulation of a futuristic air traffic network and designing analysis tools to study impacts to society. This work is part of the CITRIS Aviation program across several UC CITRIS campuses...

CITRIS is now hiring an Academic Coordinator for developing, tracking, and reporting core elements of the USDA Sustainable Agricultural Systems project: Securing a Climate Resilient Water Future through Innovation in Measurement, Management, and Markets (SWIM)...

UC Merced’s largest research grant in its 16-year history aims to improve agricultural and environmental water resilience. The new $10 million collaborative focuses on water banking, trading and improvements in data-driven management practices to arrive at a climate-resilient future in water-scarce regions of the United States...

CITRIS is looking for hard working and motivated UC Merced undergrads to fill various positions. All job applications can be found on handshake. If you think you would be a good fit, apply today! We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis until positions have been filled. Click here to learn more about the positions...

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Know of any motivated, talented, team players that want to join an academic research engagement team committed to making a difference in the San Joaquín Valley and beyond? CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Merced is hiring! We are looking for a Research Grant Officer to help take us from $50M in 2021 to $100M in 2022.Learn more about the job and how to apply...