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Leo M. Bastos

Assistant Professor, Integrative Precision Agriculture

Crop & Soil Sciences

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Agronomy and Crop Science

University of Nebraska, NE, United States (2019)

Awards and Honors

Student Career Success Influencer Award 2024 (2025)
Thank-a-teacher (2024)
Broadus Browne Research Awards to Anish Bhattarai (2024)
Anish Bhattarai 1st place, M.Sc. student poster competition, Agronomy Meetings (2024)
Anish Bhattarai 1st place, M.Sc. student oral competition, Agronomy Meetings (2024)
Anish Bhattarai 2nd place, graduate student poster competition, International Conference of Precision Agriculture (2024)
Amrinder Jakhar 1st place, graduate student poster competition, International Conference of Precision Agriculture (2024)
Outstanding graduate student award (2024)
1st place on International Conference of Integrative Precision Agriculture data hackaton (2023)
3rd place on International Conference of Integrative Precision Agriculture data hackaton (2023)
2nd place on ASA-CSSA-SSSA ag data hackaton (2023)

Courses

CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Fall 2025)
CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Fall 2025)
CRSS 6280: Programming Precision Agriculture (Spring 2026)
CRSS 8030: Data Science and Statistical Programming Applied to Agriculture (Spring 2026)
CRSS 4280: Programming Precision Agriculture (Spring 2026)
CRSS 6280L: Programming Precision Agriculture (Spring 2026)
CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Spring 2026)
CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Spring 2026)
CRSS 7300: Master's Thesis (Spring 2026)
CRSS 9990: Supervised Teaching Practicum in Crop and Soil Sciences (Spring 2026)
CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Summer 2026)
VIPR 2601: Vertically Integrated Project: Multidisciplinary Project-Based Team, First Level (Fall 2026)
VIPR 6602: Vertically Integrated Project: Multidisciplinary Project-Based Team, Graduate Level (Fall 2026)
CRSS 9300: Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2026)
CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Fall 2026)

Scholarly Works

Seasonal Topoclimatic zoning for mechanized peanut expansion in Brazil, CLIMATE SERVICES, (2026).
Vieira ICDO, de Almeida SLH, Bastos LM, Meneses KC, da Silva RP
Socioecological Factors Interact to Drive Differences in Hygiene Indicator Load on Retail Fresh Produce Available to Athens, GA Communities, JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION, (2026).
Cullinan S, Mahida M, Bastos LM, Borders JL, Maboni G … 2 more
CottonVaRx: A cotton variety recommender dashboard use case from Georgia, USA, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY, (2026).
Scarpin GJ, Hand LC, Roberts PM, Bhattarai A, Bastos LM
Geospatializing cotton fiber quality: a step towards on-farm traceability and predictability, (2026).
Scarpin GJ, Fuhrer L, Dhaliwal AK, Porter W, Bastos LM
Developing and deploying an unmanned aerial system-based phenotyping program for maturity to support soybean breeding, PLANT PHENOME JOURNAL, (2026).
Burner N, Bastos LM, Li Z

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Contact

lmbastos@uga.edu

Mailing Address

4101 Miller Plant Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602

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4101 Miller Plant Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602

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