Green Templeton DPhil student’s research profiled in video by Oxford Graduate Admissions

Green Templeton College student Adam Formica,ย  a DPhil candidate within the School of Geography and the Environment has had his research on agriculture profiled by Oxford Graduate Admissions in a YouTube video ‘Forests vs Food’.

In the video, Adam Formica talks about his work on food production and land use through computer simulations. Agriculture is vital to feeding the worldโ€™s population but its environmental cost is massive, occupying 70% of ice-free land and driving deforestation. Recent proliferation of agricultural data presents an exciting opportunity to apply advanced analytics to improve efficiency and reduce impact, with the hope of producing more food on less land.

Adam FormicaAdam’s DPhil work within the School of Geography and the Environment focuses on identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modelling. He has a BA in Environmental Science from Columbia University and an MPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford. During his MPhil he interned at Microsoft Research, Cambridge and afterward was a research assistant at the University of East Anglia. His DPhil is with the Complex Human-Environmental Systems (CoHESyS) lab.

You can read more about Adam’s current research here, as well as check out his Twitter @adamformica.

Created: 21 November 2019

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