Research

• Current Projects
• Pet Projects
• Past Projects

Current Projects

• A Framework for Sustainable Water Management in the Arequipa Region
• State of Indiana's Waters
• Phenotyping of Sorghum
• Soybean Phenotyping Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
• Remote Sensing of Water Quality Indicators in the Wabash River
• Can there ever be enough? Analysis of the adoption, penetration and effectiveness of urban stormwater best management practices
• NASA Surface water products in RFC Forecasts
• Demonstrating Nitrogen Treatment Effectiveness through Innovative Bench Wetland Systems
• Climate Change, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Corn-Based Cropping Systems
• Watershed scale optimization to meet sustainable cellulosic energy crop demand

Pet Projects

• Green House Project - a web site devoted to the changes (large and small) you can make to your home to be more environmentally friendly, with a focus on water conservation and reuse.
• Wetland Restoration Project - as a group we are working to restore the wetland in the southwest corner of the Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE) to something closer to its original state and monitoring the changes.

Past Projects

• Monitoring Episodic River Inflow Plumes Using In-Situ and Remote Sensing Data
• Climate-Induced Changes to Fisheries Habitat in Lake Michigan: An Integrated Assessment
• Assessing 21st Century Changes in Flood Risk Related to Climate Change Along the Upper Mississippi River, USA
• Subsurface Drainage Impacts on Streamflow Pattern and Nitrate Load
• Multisensor/Multiscale Assessment of Urban Impacts in the Great Lakes Region
• Diagnosis and prognosis of effects of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia
• An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling
• Drainage water management impacts on nitrate load, soil quality and farm profitability in a Midwestern watershed, USDA CSREES
• Living Laboratories on the Wabash, Purdue Center for the Environment
• Mapping of tile drains in the Hoagland Ditch watershed, Indiana
• Seasonal soil frost: A study of its significance to the hydrologic cycle of North America
• Wireless Sensor Networks for the Spatial Observation of Environmental Properties (Collaborators: K. Cherkauer and J. Evans)
• Mapping and analysis of the hydrologic impact of subsurface drainage of agricultural fields in Indiana, Purdue Agricultural Research Programs (Collaborators: L. Bowling, B. Naz)
• Carbon exchanges over the organic soils of the Kankakee floodplain: can water management manage the carbon exchange?, Purdue Center for the Environment (Collaborators: R. Grant (PI), L. Bowling, J. Frankenberger, C. Johnston, D. Niyogi, L. Theller )