Nicholas Gunner

Graduate Student
Written By Nicholas Gunner

About Me

My career has been an interdisciplinary journey across public relations, multimedia production, conservation, geospatial software development, and farming. As a PhD student, I explore how modern communication and data science can foster a more ecologically sustainable and economically viable agricultural system. My research focuses on connecting farmers through digital networks and equipping them with tools to collect data and make better management decisions. I am particularly interested in how these observations—combined with Earth observation datasets and proximal sensors—can enhance both growers’ profitability and the ecological systems they depend on.

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Robot matches humans in scouting for vineyard diseases
Robot matches humans in scouting for vineyard diseases

The development of the robot is critical as managing such diseases as powdery and downy mildews in vineyards is the top concern for grape growers and viticulturists.

From space to farm: readying NASA satellites to help growers
From space to farm: readying NASA satellites to help growers

An autonomous robot – a base on wheels fitted with computer vision technology that snaps images of grapevines in near real-time – rolls down a long row of plants in a vineyard at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York.

Autonomous robots to help modernize grape, wine industry
Autonomous robots to help modernize grape, wine industry

Next spring, a small army of Cornell-developed PhytoPatholoBots (PPB) will be deployed to four grape breeding programs across the U.S. on a mission to guide the global grape and wine industry into the 21st century.

Nicholas Gunner

Nick makes online mapping software through his business, Orbitist LLC.

https://orbitist.com
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