Research Projects:
2023/04 - present USDA-NIFA: Assessing the Effects of Conservation Practices on Crop Yield, Water Quality, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Corn Belt.
2022/02 - 2024 NSF: A Modeling Framework to Understand the coupling of Food, Energy, and Water in the Teleconnected Corn and Cotton Belts. Grant No. 1639327.
2022/02 - 2025 USDA-NIFA: Improving Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management to Sustain Food and Energy Crops Production in the Corn Belt. Grant No. 2020-68012-31674.
2022/02 - 2024 NASA: An Aquatic Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring System (AECMS) for Quantifying Carbon Fluxes, Sources and Sinks of Inland Waters: Development and Verification in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.
2020/11 - 2021/11 Beef Cattle Research Council (Canada): Watershed-Scale Assessment of Water and Nutrient Dynamics of Pastures Utilized by Beef Cattle. Grant No. ENV.07.19.
2019/04 - 2020/10 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Living Laboratories Initiative: Demonstrating and Transferring Innovative BMPs for Enhancing Water and Soil Quality in Agricultural Landscapes in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Grant No. J-002269.
2015/09 - 2019/04 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC): Reducing Sediment, N, and P Loading from Arable Cropping Systems to Receiving Waters in Eastern Canada (PEI, NB, NS, QC). Grant No. J-001270.
2012/09 - 2015/06 The Twelfth Five-Year Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (China): Advanced Treatment of Tailwater from Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Constructed Wetland Technologies. Grant No. 2011ZX07303-001-04.
2011/07 - 2012/12 The Eleventh Five-Year Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (China): Water Quality, Quantity and Aquatic Habitat Improvement of Lakes in Typical Water-Deficient Cities in Northern China. Grant No. 2009ZX07106-003.