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  2. Glen C. Rains

Glen C. Rains


Professor

Entomology

Glen Rains
Glen Rains
Areas of expertiseAboutEducationAwards and honorsScholarly works

Areas of expertise

Agriculture, Land and Farm ManagementCrop and Pasture ProductionOther EngineeringFood SciencesPlant BiologyZoology

About

Precision Agriculture, Biological Sensors, Agrosecurity, Farm Safety, UAV’s, UAS’s

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Agricultural Engineering.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University – Blacksburg, VA, United States (1992)

Master of Science, Agricultural Engineering.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University – Blacksburg, VA, United States (1989)

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Engineering.

University of Georgia, GA, United States (1987)

Awards and Honors

  • Award of Excellence – Senior Scientist – Research (2014)
  • Ist Place Oral Presentation in Applied Research (2013)
  • 10 year certificate (2009)
  • Professional Engineer (1998)

Scholarly Works

  • 4D Crop Monitoring: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction for Agriculture, (2017).
    Dong J, Burnham JG, Boots B, Rains G, Dellaert F
  • 4D Crop Monitoring: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction for Agriculture, (2017).
    Dong J, Burnham JG, Boots B, Rains G, Dellaert F
  • Parasitic wasps learn and report diverse chemicals with unique conditionable behaviors, CHEMICAL SENSES, (2003).
    Olson DM, Rains GC, Meiners T, Takasu K, Tertuliano M … 3 more
  • Plant-herbivore-carnivore Interactions in Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum: Linking Belowground and Aboveground, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, (2008).
    Olson DM, Davis RF, Wackers FL, Rains GC, Potter T
  • Redirecting technology to support sustainable farm management practices, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, (2011).
    Rains GC, Olson DM, Lewis WJ

View full list of scholarly works

Contact

grains@uga.edu 229-386-3520

Mailing Address

2360 Rainwater Road
Tifton, GA 31793-5766

Shipping Address

2329 Rainwater Road,Bio and Ag Engineering
Tifton, GA 31794

  • https://www.ent.uga.edu/personnel/faculty/rains.htm

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    April 11, 2017

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