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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Food Production Engineering
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- One example of CEA is aquaponics, that combines aquaculture fish production with greenhouse hydroponic vegetable production so farmers can harvest two marketable foods and conserve water by recirculating it in a closed system.
- Such systems are climate-controlled, and integrating renewable energy sources - wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric - can reduce their dependence on fossil fuels for pumping, aeration, heating and cooling.
- The postdoctoral position is part of an international project to improve productivity of CEA systems with precision farming tools that require contributions of a broad range of engineering and biotechnology skills.
- Sensors that monitor critical CEA physicochemical variables are commercially available, but decision support systems (DSS) and biofeedback loops need to be developed that can provide operators with timely feedback to maintain balanced system functionality.
- Outputs need to augment operators' knowledge and insights about optimizing production conditions while contributing to savings in resources, time, and labour.
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