Project Grant 2211941

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $544,613 to Cornell University to study how emerging digital technologies are transforming occupations and organizations in dairy farming. Specifically, the research will explore evolving relationships in digital agriculture and their occupational and organizational consequences, generalize findings to derive theoretical insights for other contexts experiencing similar technological changes, and assess how relationship insights could inform design and deployment of data science models, sensors and data streams. The research employs comparative mixed methods with dairy farmers to document impacts of big data and data-driven technologies on jobs and organizations. Mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students is intended to integrate data science and social science inquiries in research while developing essential skills.