Cindy Tucker
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Plant Growth Facilities added approximately 8,000 square feet of greenhouse and support spaces tailored to agricultural and horticultural plant research at our Riverbend Greenhouse Complex. Construction began in late August 2022 and was completed in December 2023. The facility features Wadsworth SEED environmental controllers, Adiabatic Cooling, Supplemental LED lighting, Automated-Irrigation Solenoids, Insect Exclusion, Sample Processing…
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Our newest growth chamber facility was finished in November 2021. The area features 12 Conviron chambers, five reserved for use by CAES programs.
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Pamela Lewis has been cultivating flowers and plants for the CAES convocation ceremonies for a decade. Following the event, she carefully selects the best remaining plants and donates them to nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the Athens area. Poinsettias hold a special place in Lewis’ heart as her favorite horticultural crop. In their native…
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These greenhouses were built in 2008. Over time the polycarbonate has degraded from UV radiation. This impacts the quantity and spectral composition of the light transmitted through the polycarbonate panels to the plant leaves. CAES – Office of Teaching, CAES-Office of Research and Plant Growth Facilities are funding new paneling! Expected completion is early-June 2022.
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Our facilities include 52 greenhouse compartments on three sites in Athens. Thirty-six percent of the compartments required almost 800 new cooling pads. Combining an order of this size allowed us to purchase with economies of scale. The savings were directed back into the cooling media by “double-dipping” many pads to extend their expected life from…
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Our facilities have expanded to include 600 square feet of cool-season greenhouse space to support Robin Buell’s genomics research program. The greenhouse will be completed this May. These compartments will be a part of the larger multidisciplinary greenhouse expansion scheduled to begin construction in late-July 2022.
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Thanks to a Whitefly grant award, our entomology department’s old greenhouse has been updated with supplemental lighting, area trench drains, insect-exclusion vestibules, new glazing, and many other features. The greenhouse now has five compartments all capable of BSL-2 certification.
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We have removed an unused raw material bunk in our Riverbend soil shed to increase the amount of mixing and sterilizing space and increase the amount of palletized media that we can have on hand.
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