International Agriculture

Jan. 8, 2018

Felix Fritschi

Educational background…

Dec. 14, 2017

Rebecca North

Research in the North group is focused on addressing the question: What controls algal biomass of inland waters? North’s team focuses on the effects of multiple stressors on nutrient cycling, bioavailability, and primary production in Missouri water bodies with particular attention to the source and timing of nutrient loading and the response of the receiving water body. Ecosystem stressors include, but are not limited to: climate change, landscape modification (i.e., agricultural, urban, and industrial applications), eutrophication, and invasive species (i.e., zebra mussels). North’s research is conceptually driven and applies field, lab, and quantitative approaches to studying issues in watershed…

Nov. 13, 2017

Noel R. Aloysius

Noel Aloysius’ research and teaching focus on terrestrial hydrology, watershed biophysical processes and environmental informatics. Noel’s research group investigates how climate and weather, landscapes and land management drive precipitation-runoff processes and fate and transport of pollution at field-, watershed- and continental-scale river basins. His group utilizes field observations, long-term hydro-climate data, numerical and statistical models to examine the movement of water, solutes and sediments in response to environmental change and human management. Noel is a member of the Gulf Hypoxia Task Force SERA-46 research group representing the University of Missouri. The SERA-46 group is a consortium of twelve Land…

July 20, 2017

Pei Liu

Pei Liu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Hospitality Management and Director of Graduate Programs at the University of Missouri. Liu has an extensive record of externally funded research and has served as principal investigator on multiple USDA-NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program projects. Her federally funded work has focused particularly on developing food safety education and training programs for small-scale farmers. Her current research also examines sustainable dining and food choices, food waste reduction, blockchain-enabled food traceability, artificial intelligence and emerging hospitality technologies, and consumer responses to innovative food and service experiences. Her scholarship has…