“We’ve lacked a system to provide UAS users in agriculture with a way to record information about their flights, sensors and maintenance issues,” Saraswat said. “Thus, creation of a common protocol for UAS operations for various research- and production-related applications is an effort to plug that gap and bring standardization to flight data collection.”

The College of Agriculture PK-12 Council's Outreach and Engagement Awards were established to recognize, reward, and celebrate faculty and staff involved in successful outreach and engagement activities and to encourage the improvement and expansion of those activities.

Dr. Carroll will begin her term at the 2018 UCOWR/NIWR Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Science on Tap provides Purdue faculty and collaborating researchers with the opportunity to share research activities in an informal setting with presentations designed to appeal to a more general audience.