Projects
Things I'm building, breaking, and shipping.
A growing portfolio of research projects, civic-tech builds for the Nigerian ecosystem, and the occasional pet experiment in data visualization. Most code lives on GitHub; the writing on each lives here.
Research
-
shipped Correlating Fusarium Presence with DON Production in Silage Corn
Field investigation of how Fusarium graminearum colonization in corn ears and stalks drives DON accumulation — with implications for dairy feed safety.
- DNA extraction
- PCR
- qPCR
- LC-MS/MS
- Disease scouting
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shipped Tracking DON Accumulation and Progression During Corn Ensiling
Longitudinal study of DON and DON3G across five ensiling time points — tracking toxin changes from harvest through 120 days of silage storage.
- DNA extraction
- qPCR
- LC-MS/MS
- Mini-silos
- SAS
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in-progress Whole Genome Sequencing of Wisconsin Fusarium Isolates
Field-to-genome pipeline for 20+ Fusarium isolates: disease survey, isolation, Oxford Nanopore sequencing, and bioinformatics on USDA-SCINet HPC.
- Oxford Nanopore
- GridION
- PromethION
- Dorado
- Flye
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in-progress Silage Microbiome Analysis Using QIIME 2
Amplicon microbiome profiling of corn and alfalfa silage across ensiling time points — tracking how fermentation reshapes the microbial community.
- QIIME 2
- DADA2
- Python
- R
- USDA SCINet Ceres
Civic Tech
-
concept A weather app Nigerian farmers can actually use
Modern, location-specific weather forecasting for Nigerian agricultural cities — built to replace the static PDF bulletins NiMet still publishes today.
- Astro
- TypeScript
- Open-Meteo API
- Cloudflare Workers
- Tailwind
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in-progress Nigeria Crop Planting Calendar — Interactive State Map
Click any Nigerian state to see optimal planting windows for maize, cassava, yam, sorghum, and rice. Agronomic timing data for smallholder farmers.
- Astro
- TypeScript
- SVG
- Tailwind
- Cloudflare Pages
Pet Projects
-
in-progress Corn Disease Risk Dashboard — Prairie du Sac
Daily corn disease risk for the US Dairy Forage Research Center — Webster tar spot ensemble, Gibberella and Fusarium ear rot, on-farm scouting overlay.
- Astro
- Python
- Open-Meteo
- Chart.js
- GitHub Actions
-
in-progress Learning R Through Agricultural Data
An R showcase for agricultural data analysis — code snippets, annotated outputs, and a path to your first working script using real research data.
- R
- ggplot2
- dplyr
- tidyr
- RStudio