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Registration will close Friday, February 26th at 11:59pm MST
Details:
Get your questions answered and increase your knowledge in Controlled Environment Agriculture and hydroponic growing at the 20th annual Greenhouse Crop Production & Engineering Design Short Course – A three-day online conference via Zoom put on by the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center with lectures presented by leaders in academia and in the CEA industry.
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What you get:
- Access to lecture materials
- Ability to network with industry leaders
- Tons of knowledge!!!
Schedule:
Our program will be hosted through the zoom platform on Wednesdays- 3/3, 3/10 & 3/17: 10am- 3pm (MST).
[*Note that Arizona does not change for Daylight Savings Time, and thus is GMT -6 during daylight savings; GMT -7 during standard time.]
Topics will include the following :
- Wednesday, March 3rd- Day 1
- Controlled Environment Greenhouse and Hydroponics- Limitless Opportunity
- Merle Jensen- Professor Emeritus, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona
- Hydroponics, Medium Composition & Delivery Systems
- Myles Lewis- Owner, Arizona Vegetable Company
- Managing Plant Nutrition for Quality Crop Production
- Stacy Tollefson- Asst. Professor, Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona
- Greenhouse Structures- Glazing and Environmental Control
- Gene Giacomelli- Professor, Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona
- Monitoring Your Greenhouse Environment: Simple Tools to Technology Trends
- Murat Kacira- Professor, Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona / Director of UA-CEAC
- Controlled Environment Greenhouse and Hydroponics- Limitless Opportunity
- Wednesday, March 10th- Day 2
- Pest Identification and Control Strategies
- Stacy Tollefson- Asst. Professor, Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona
- Fundamentals on Supplemental and Sole-Source Lighting for CEA
- Erik Runkle- Professor, Dept. of Horticulture, Michigan State University
- Fertigation Systems in CEA – Simple to Complex
- Neil Mattson- Associate Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
- The Indoor Farming Revolution – State of the Art Technology, Food Safety, Sustainability and Careers in the Growing Local Food Economy
- Jenn Frymark- Chief Greenhouse Officer, Gotham Greens
- Pest Identification and Control Strategies
- Wednesday, March 17th- Day 3
- Fundamentals of Hemp- Opportunities and Challenges in the Industry
- Hope Jones- Co-Founder & President, Superior Phenos / CEO, Emergent Cannabis
- Environmental Control in Greenhouses and Vertical Farms Based on Plant Physiology
- Leo Marcelis- Professor, Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University
- The Potential of Indoor Propagation: Environmental Optimization for a Better "Start"
- Ricardo Hernandez- Asst. Professor, Horticultural Science, NC State University
- Mushrooms in CEA
- Barry Pryor- Professor, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona
- Fundamentals of Hemp- Opportunities and Challenges in the Industry
For questions, email arizona.ceac@gmail.com or call 520-626-9566.
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Interested in becoming a sponsor or exhibitor for the 2021 Online Short Course?