Early in spring of 2022, the College of Agriculture hired new faculty members who will work on developing the precision ag program. Paul Nugent specializes in agriculture engineering. Along with other agriculture faculty, Paul will help to create precision ag courses forMSUstudents and aid in the development of a future minor.

 

Paul Nugent

Endowed Chair in Precision Agriculture
Agriculture engineering

Research areas: Optical Sensing, Technology Adoption

   Linfield Hall 114
   406-994-2515
   paul.nugent@montana.edu 

Anish Sapkota

Assistant Professor
Precision Agriculture

Research areas: irrigation and nutrient management, drones and remote sensing, management zone delineation, evapotranspiration, water and carbon fluxes.

   Linfield Hall 102A
   406- 994-5712
   anish.sapkota@montana.edu

Ali Bazrafkan

Assistant Professor                                  Precision Agriculture, GeoAI, High-throughput phenotyping

Research Areas: Precision Ag, GeoAI, GIS Modeling, LiDAR, High-throughput Phenotyping.

   Molecular Biosciences Building 215A
   406-994-5153
   ali.bazrafkan@montana.edu

Ricardo Pinto

Assistant Professor                                          Precision Agriculture Research/Extension

Research Areas: precision pest management, remote sensing technologies UAV and High resoultion satelite imagery, computational modeling, and machine learning.

   Northern Ag research center
   406-994-6374
   ricardo.pinto@montana.edu