The Controlled Environment Agriculture Center
(CEAC) hopes to advance the current state of controlled environment
technology, to assist the rapidly growing CEA industry in Arizona, and to
train the future generations of CEA scientists, growers and
entrepreneurs.
Controlled Environment Agriculture provides students
with a broad background in greenhouse structures and other protected
agriculture techniques, environmental controls, sensors and computer
systems for heating, cooling, light management, carbon dioxide enrichment,
etc., seedling production, greenhouse crop physiology including cultural
practices to enhance crop productivity, plant nutrition and nutrient
solution/drip irrigation management, basics of crop protection including
integrated pest management, bee management, as well as personnel
management and marketing strategies.
Alumni careers:
Commercial greenhouse operation grower/manager, greenhouse
entomology/plant pathology specialist, plant nutrition specialist,
secondary education, greenhouse owner/operator, agricultural sales.
Faculty involved in undergraduate
education: Gene Giacomelli (CEA/Ag. and
Biosystems Engineering), Merle Jensen (CEA/Hydroponics), Patricia
Rorabaugh (CEA/Hydroponics) and Roger Huber(CEA/Pest
Management).
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Advisors: Gene Giacomelli - 520.621.1412 -
giacomel@ag.arizona.edu
Merle Jensen -
520.621.5242 - mjensen@ag.arizona.edu
Patricia Rorabaugh - 520.318.7268 -
patrora@ag.arizona.edu
Learn more about CEAC, in Tucson, Arizona,
their mission, hydroponics, their facilities, faculty, staff, graduate
students and student workers by following the links in this section of the
website.
The CEAC has several projects underway in coordination
with the Agriculture Research
Station, the research arm of the
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Research is conducted in the various departments and schools on campus, as
well as at Agricultural Centers throughout the state. Research generated
through the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station underlies both
academic and extension programs.
This site contains a wealth of
information. The CEAC is an interdisciplinary research and training
facility located on the University of Arizona's Campus Agriculture Center
(a.k.a. the Farm). Students and faculty from the College of Ag and Life
Sciences, including Agricultural & Biosystems
Engineering, Agricultural Education,
and Plant Sciences
currently participate within its
programs. |
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