Integrated Cropping Systems Lab
Predict-Explain-Design profitable and sustainable cropping systems for current and future environments across scales
Research Focus
- Agronomy and cropping systems modeling
- Soil-plant-atmosphere processes
- Crop physiology
- Environmental sustainability
- Simulation of climate change impacts
- Improving crop and soil models
- Soil water, nitrogen and carbon dynamics
- Shallow water tables and crop roots
- Optimum N fertilizer rate for corn
- Development of decision support tools
Research Approach
- Field and lab experimentation to fill knowledge gaps, e.g. root growth, water table fluctuation, plant traits, management effects on crop yields and water quality
- Use of process-based modeling to connect soil-plant processes with external inputs (weather and management) to enable:
- systems analysis
- prediction
- scenario analysis