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Trenton Franz

Jennifer Clarke writes on a large piece of paper as three men watch.

Husker faculty lead conference honing strategies for national ag data network

August 13, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Trenton Franz with a neutron monitor. The sensors are housed in the box surrounded by lead bricks which is surrounded by plastic. The monitor sits in an unused lunchroom inside an old munitions building at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center (ENREEC) near Mead, Nebraska. Franz, associate professor Assoc Professor in the School of Natural Resources, is using neutron and cosmic ray detectors to see how solar radiation and solar energy such as those that caused Nebraksa t

Husker projects advance study of soil moisture, hydrology

July 2, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

(From left) Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Justin Bradley, Carrick Detweiler, Brittany Duncan and Trenton Franz pose among unmanned aerial vehicles at the NIMBUS outdoor flying area on Nebraska Innovation Campus.

NIMBUS receives $2M to advance robotics’ role in climate change research

March 27, 2023

Science & Technology

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Aerial photo of cornfield

Faculty invited to learn about National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative

January 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will use the Arable Mark IOT device to record 40 variables in Nebraska farm fields as part of a research effort to improve data farmers use to determine whether they should irrigate.

Researchers to tackle irrigation decision-making via USDA grant

November 4, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

A research project that includes UNL's Trenton Franz is helping protect the endangered riparian vegetation at Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa.

Researcher's soil moisture detector goes to work in South Africa

April 22, 2015

Franz brings technology from cornfield to battlefield

December 8, 2014

Trenton Franz

Franz continues SNR's fall seminar series

November 3, 2014

Agronomy and horticulture seminar series begins Sept. 19

September 17, 2014

Franz engages students with new cosmic-ray sensor

May 29, 2014

13 faculty named Research Development Fellows

October 10, 2013