{"id":2016,"date":"2019-10-29T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/geology\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:52:31","slug":"rebecca-minor-03-and-bates-geologys-assistant-in-instruction-recently-coauthored-a-paper-in-nature-sustainability-agrivoltaics-provide-mutual-benefits-across-the-food-energ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/2019\/10\/29\/rebecca-minor-03-and-bates-geologys-assistant-in-instruction-recently-coauthored-a-paper-in-nature-sustainability-agrivoltaics-provide-mutual-benefits-across-the-food-energ\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Minor \u201903 and Bates Geology\u2019s Assistant in Instruction recently coauthored a paper in Nature Sustainability, \u201cAgrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food-energy-water nexus in drylands.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca\u2019s previous research at the University of Arizona focused on carbon and water cycling.\u00a0 This paper reports on Agrivoltaics, the idea that both plants and photovoltaics (solar panels) might benefit from being located in the same place.\u00a0 Especially in drylands where temperature is predicted to increase and precipitation events are expected to decrease in the future climate, the resilience of our food and energy systems is a pressing challenge.\u00a0 Photovoltaics are increasingly the dominate land use across the sunny southwest, resulting in a conflict between agricultural production, conservation of desert species, and energy generation over land resources.\u00a0 Plants grown under photovoltaics experience less heat and water stress, resulting in increased production.\u00a0 Photovoltaics experience lower temperatures in this novel ecosystem as well, which increases efficiency.\u00a0 Future research will explore the relationships between native vegetation and solar panels.\u00a0 Read the full September 2019 article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-019-0364-5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca\u2019s previous research at the University of Arizona focused on carbon and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}