Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture
Dalhousie University
Dr. Travis Esau is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University. Dr. Esau is a Licensed Professional Engineer and a Professional Agrologist. Dr. Esau specializes in machine systems and automation engineering focusing on agricultural mechanized systems, digital agriculture, precision agriculture, data management, automation of agricultural operations and data-driven decision analysis for complex agricultural and biological systems. Dr. Esau has an h-index of 18 with 1074 citations and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, 50 conference proceedings and 35 invited talks in relation to precision agriculture and mechanized systems. He has supervised/co-supervised 3 PhDs, 10 MScs, 1 PDF, 3 research associates, and 12 undergraduate students with external funding from NSERC DG, CRD, USDA-CARE, Mitacs and Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Dr. Esau received the 2022 Early Career Teaching Award and 2023 Research Excellence Award from Dalhousie University AC. In 2022 he also received the prestigious Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Canadian Society for Bioengineering.
CLISA is the first multi-institutional training program in Canada towards climate smart agriculture to help address the need for HQPs who possess appropriate knowledge and expertise in climate change, precision agriculture, water and soil management, sustainable food production and food value chains, and climate-smart financing and policies to promote the development and application of innovative technologies and strategies in Canadian farming practices.
