Agricultural Production
Research and projects within the Lamm Lab related to agricultural production.
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An aspiring triple Dawg at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Allison Fortner was thrilled to be featured on their new digital storytelling platform, Cultivate. In this feature, Fortner shares a bit about herself and her long background and love for the University of Georgia and CAES. In the interview, Allison describes…
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Healthier Together researchers launch into a summer of data collection to assess program impact at the community level.
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Sanders presents research from the Lamm Lab at the National Association for Agricultural Education Conference in Oklahoma City
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Allison Fortner, a doctoral student in the Lamm Lab, just completed an eight-week international internship in Paris and on France’s Brittany Coast, where she worked as a science communicator with the Safe Seaweed Coalition, a global partnership established in 2021 to support a safe and sustainable seaweed industry. The internship fulfilled the requirements of Fortner’s International Agriculture…
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Lamm worked side by side with horticulture faculty and extension specialists from across the U.S. to study the human side of soilless substrate adoption as part of the Specialty Crops Research initiative – Grant No. 2020-02629 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Through focus groups with speciality crop growers and interviews with…
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Katie Sanders, Kristin Gibson, and Allison Fortner presented their collective work on systems thinking as an educational tool during the CleanTech Symposium at the Delta Innovation Hub on UGA’s Campus. The three Lamm Lab members participated in the student poster competition that wrapped up the day-long event on Wednesday, April 20. The CleanTech Symposium was…
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Allison Fortner, Lamm Lab doctoral student studying science communication, completed the first half of her in-country internship in France. Allison is a science communication intern with the Safe Seaweed Coalition, an international organization focused on environmental, occupational, and consumer safety in the quickly expanding global seaweed industry. Though Allison has been working with the Coalition…
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Dr. Lamm worked with a multi-disciplinary team of academics and scientists to assess the current and future state of soilless substrate research in North America through support from the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative. Through this project, we developed a protocol to assess grower and supplier needs across crop types to shed light on the…
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The need for soilless substrates is expected to double as urban agriculture expands and quality soil deteriorates. Lamm and Gibson presented two research studies at the Southern Region Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences in New Orleans February 11 & 12. Their work identified the research and extension education needs of specialty crop…
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Authors Sanders, Gibson, and Lamm analyze the Biden administration press outreach regarding rural broadband policy.