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Undergraduates require access to authentic field environments to learn effectively. An undergraduate student (left) assists a Ph.D. candidate (center) deploying targets prior to a UAV (drone) aerial imagery survey, under the guidance of an expert geospatial scientist (right), in coastal dunes on Kangaroo Island after a significant bushfire. Photograph by A. Turner.

No replacement for field trips: The importance of hands-on learning in earth science

September 24, 2025

world Congress of Soil Science

World Congress of Soil Science to be held in Nanjing, China in 2026

September 24, 2025

AI-generated image courtesy of Google Gemini.

Reducing bias in the assessment of posters and presentations

September 24, 2025

Mentoring.

Calling all mentors

September 24, 2025

Anna Paltseva, a soil scientist who studies urban soil contamination and remediation, uses an X-ray fluorescence analyzer to detect heavy metals in a soil sample. Photo courtesy of Anna Paltseva.

A day in the life: Anna Paltseva

September 24, 2025

Applied statistics in biology

New book release: Applied Statistics in Biology

September 24, 2025

CANVAS 2025 publications workshops

CANVAS 2025 publications workshops

September 23, 2025

International Agronomy Congress

Global Agronomy Section, Early Career Members Committee partner with International Agronomy Congress

September 23, 2025

Texas A&M's maize field early in the growing season (College Station, TX). Photo courtesy of Fatma Ozair.

Improvements in grain yield performance prediction for maize hybrids

September 23, 2025

Predictive ability overestimates the relative accuracy of phenomic prediction (PP) versus genomic prediction (GP) models. Colored dots correlate with different traits tested in each case study. (A) Differences between estimated PP and GP accuracies are plotted against their estimated predictive abilities. Points to the right of the line are where the accuracy of these PP models tends to be overestimated compared with GP models, even when the PP models are actually less accurate (lower right quadrant).

Do not directly compare cross-validation results between genomic and phenomic predictions

September 23, 2025

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