Source:  NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 12/9/20


The world is changing rapidly, a global pandemic notwithstanding, and by investing in digital infrastructure at its research stations and field labs, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ research office is ensuring these vital facilities will help keep North Carolina agriculture growing.

The N.C. Agricultural Research Service (NCARS) has invested in high-speed fiber internet at several of the 18 research stations and four university field labs as well as improving other types of digital infrastructure.

“This project will make it a lot more efficient for faculty members to remotely monitor their experiments and have their data uploaded to the cloud,” said David Monks, the associate director of NCARS. “Being able to monitor their studies remotely, and collect and manage large datasets will allow our researchers to learn much more about the crops and animals they study. This will allow us to achieve results quicker to support our growers. Quicker solutions will have more impact on supporting their operations, and should reduce their risk in production.”

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