Purdue is among the members of the new institute that will leverage AI to help absorb and store carbon in the agriculture and forestry industries. (Courtesy of Purdue University).
Purdue University received a five-year, $500,000 grant to play an education and workforce development role in a new $20 million AI Institute focusing on climate-smart agriculture and forestry.
The AI Institute for Climate-land Interactions, Mitigation, Adaptation, Tradeoffs, and Economy (AI-CLIMATE), led by the University of Minnesota, is one of seven new artificial intelligence Institutes that are part of a half a billion-dollar federal initiative to bolster AI research across the country.
Bruce Erikson, a clinical associate professor of digital agriculture in the Department of Agronomy at Purdue, said the goal is to help teach about AI and the adoption of environmentally favorable practices.
“We think we can do that while enhancing the productivity and economic viability of farms and the businesses that support them,” he said.
Researchers at AI-CLIMATE will work to improve the accuracy and lower the cost of accounting for carbon and greenhouse gases in farms and forests. Eventually, the process should become more accessible to more people.
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