The Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis invites applications for a lecturer positions to teach FST104L – Food Microbiology Laboratory during the Spring 2018 Quarter. See http://foodscience.ucdavis.edu/ for course descriptions.
Climate change is coming for your wine. What the world's wineries are doing to save grapes
Ahmad Hakim
September 09, 2019
Soaring temperatures, irregular rain patterns and the ever-present threat of fires is causing winery owners here and around the world to adopt aggressive strategies to safeguard their livelihoods. These tactics include experimenting with new varieties of grapes, finding new ways to maximize water use and even seeking out land in areas that formerly were too cold for vineyards.
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New System More Accurately Estimates Vineyard Crop Yields
Ahmad Hakim
August 06, 2019
A company is developing a computer vision system to estimate vineyard crop yield with the collaboration of UC Davis scientists.
On Friday, Nathan Strong, president and chief executive officer at Terroir AI in Menlo Park, demonstrated the system at UC Davis’ Oakville Station. Strong installed a box containing four sensor cameras in the back of the station’s ATV, the cameras adjusted for the high-wire trellis system of the experimental block.
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The Department of Viticulture and Enology, in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology. This is an academic year (9month), Assistant Professor tenure-track position with teaching, research, outreach/engagement and service responsibilities and includes the expectation that the appointee will conduct mission oriented research and outreach/engagement of relevance to the California Agricultural Experiment Station
Tinhorn Creek Vineyards' CEO Sandra Oldfield named one of Canadas Most Powerful Women
Assistant Professor of Crop Sensing and Automation
Departments of Viticulture and Enology and Biological and Agricultural Engineering
University of California, Davis
The Departments of Viticulture and Enology and Biological and Agricultural
Engineering in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University
of California, Davis are recruiting an Assistant Professor of Crop Sensing and
Automation in Vineyard Systems with a preferred emphasis in sensor development,
robotics, biological and agricultural engineering, viticulture, plant science, or a related
field.
Invitation to a Memorial Service for Prof. Emeritus Vernon Singleton
The Department was saddened to hear of Reid's passing on August 15. Dr. Reid had been retired since 2008, but remained active on campus with CIFAR. He also sat on scientific advisory committees and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) in July, Dr. Ruihong Zhang was named a Fellow of the organization for her outstanding contributions in the areas of waste conversion, bioenergy, and biofuel production.
Dr. Ben Montpetit is the Department's newest Assistant Professor, a Microbiologist/Yeast Biologist.
