Bruce Bugbee Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000
Travels From:
SLC - Salt Lake City, UT
Primary Topic Category:
Science (STEM / STEAM)
Secondary Topic Category:
Business & Entrepreneurship
Bruce Bugbee Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Bruce Bugbee is a plant scientist and professor at Utah State University, where he directs the Crop Physiology Laboratory. He is also the founder and president of Apogee Instruments, a company that develops scientific tools for environmental and agricultural research. His work focuses on controlled environment agriculture, space farming, and sensor technology for plant studies. Bugbee has been honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the American Society for Horticultural Science. He has also received the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.
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