CALS faculty, graduate students, and postdocs are invited to the next Dairy Innovation Hub faculty seminar of the academic year on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 12:05 p.m. in MSABD room 1111. Assistant professor at UW–Platteville and biological systems engineering affiliate at UW–Madison Joseph Sanford will discuss his current research on agricultural wastewater, air quality, and odor management. Coffee and snacks will be provided!

The Dairy Innovation Hub faculty seminar series is hosted on the third Wednesday of the month in MSABD during the academic year. It will showcase current Hub work, introduce potential collaborators (from across CALS and our partner universities), and foster discussion around common research interests. This is an in-person event, but a virtual join option is available by request — contact Maria Woldt at maria.woldt@wisc.edu.

About Sanford:

Sanford is an assistant professor in the School of Agriculture and faculty researcher for the Dairy Innovation Hub at UW–Platteville. His research interest is in agriculture wastewater management including management of farmstead and edge of field runoff, nutrient management, precision manure application, water recovery and recycling, pathogen inactivation and transport, and emerging agricultural contaminates such as PFAS.

In collaboration with colleagues at UW–Madison and UW–Platteville, Sanford works to develop solutions for farmers looking for cost-effective methods to manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce odor from manure systems. Sanford and his team are working on several studies that incorporate biochar into manure management systems, including manure storages and anaerobic digestion, to reduce production of GHG, mitigate odors and advance economic feasibility of anaerobic digestion by improving biogas quality.

About the Dairy Innovation Hub:

The Dairy Innovation Hub, which launched in 2019, is a $7.8 million per year investment by the State of Wisconsin to build a world-class talent pool and enable bold discoveries to ensure that Wisconsin’s dairy community is at the global forefront in producing nutritious dairy products in an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable manner. More at https://dairyinnovationhub.wisc.edu/

In addition to more than 130 project awards at UW–Madison, UW–Platteville, and UW–River Falls, 15 new faculty have been hired, including seven in CALS with more to follow.