NC_old1190: Catalysts for Water Resources Protection and Restoration: Applied Social Science Research

(Multistate Research Project)

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Date of Annual Report: 09/25/2012

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Annual Meeting Dates: 06/04/2012 - 06/06/2012
Period the Report Covers: 06/01/2011 - 05/01/2012

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Date of Annual Report: 07/08/2013

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Annual Meeting Dates: 06/02/2013 - 06/04/2013
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2012 - 09/01/2013

Participants

Attendees: Richard H. Moore, Shohei Arisaka, Jennifer Harrison, Mark Burbach, Linda Prokopy, Nate Mullendore, Nick Babin , Lois Wright-Morton, Joe Colletti, Jamie Benning, Jean McGuire, Ken Genskow, Eric Kaufman, Rachael Kennedy

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NC1190 Annual Report 2012 2013
Project Activity Number: NC1190
Project Title: Catalysts for Water Resources Protection and Restoration: Applied Social Science Research
Period Covered: June 2012 May 2013

Date of this Report: July 5th, 2013.
Annual Meeting Dates: June 2 4 2013

Attendees: Richard H. Moore, Shohei Arisaka, Jennifer Harrison, Mark Burbach, Linda Prokopy, Nate Mullendore, Nick Babin , Lois Wright-Morton, Joe Colletti, Jamie Benning, Jean McGuire, Ken Genskow, Eric Kaufman, Rachael Kennedy

Summary of 2013 June annual meeting:
The 2013 Annual meeting was held at Stone Lab on Gibraltar Island, Lake Erie, in Ohio. Dr. Joe Colletti, NC1190 academic advisor alerted the team of our upcoming 3rd year review due in Dec 2013 and listed the evaluation criteria: all annual notes posted in NIMSS, impact statement updated and refined; external funding and leveraged dollars and other resources, and active integration among members occurring in support of achieving stated objectives. An annual report template (see appendix) was created for all NC1190 members to submit their progress reports to Kristin Floress and Lois Wright Morton by Jun3 30th for aggregation into the team 2013 report. Team members present at the annual meeting reviewed progress on current research and joint work undertaken among NC1190 members; toured Lake Erie by boat and learned about tools and instruments used to measure water characteristics and hypoxic conditions; and developed more detail to the teams matrix of the role of catalysts and outcomes for water resource protection and restoration. Next years officers were elected and the date and location of the 2014 meeting were set.

Election of Officers
a. Richard Moore, Chair; Kristin Floress, Vice-chair; Carmen Agouridis, Secretary; Linda Prokopy, Secretary-elect

Next Meeting Date and Location
b. The next meeting will be held in Sheyboygan, Wisconsin at the Blue Harbor Resort from June 3- June 4 2014. Participants will likely fly into Milwaukee on Monday, June 2nd.

Accomplishments

A summary of the 20112-2013 activities and accomplishments follow: Project accomplishments to date by all members (including those unable to attend the 2013 annual meeting) Jointly conducted work and integration of research efforts. The five objectives of this multi-state project are not stand-alone goals but feed into each other in iterative ways. The typologies of catalysts (obj 1; obj 3) are precursor to determining mechanisms (obj 2), synthesizing the theoretical frameworks and analyzing data (obj 4) in order to develop and evaluate adaptive strategies to activate (obj 5) mechanisms discovered (obj 2). Thus, although different groups of team members are focusing on different aspects of catalysts for water resource protection and restoration, the team is highly cognizant and purposeful in connecting each others research findings so as to inform, ongoing and future efforts. Three key sub-research clusters illustrate the integration of theory, data, co-learning, and products created among team members that has occurred over the first few years of this new project: water-related leadership; disproportionality; and roles of catalysts and outcomes. Water-related leadership.(Burbach, Floress, Kaufman co-leads; Kennedy) Investigation to determine if water-related leadership development programs are theory based; if they provide assessment, challenge, and support; and if they are long-term. Preliminary data analysis reveals 31 programs advertised as natural resources or water leadership development programs. Of these, 13 were theory based, 7 included assessment and 8 challenge/support using the McCauley et al (2010) model of leadership development. Disproportionality (Genskow, lead; Moore, Ribaldo, Gasteyer, Prokopy, Morton, McGuire, Braiser). Plans are in progress to develop a disproportionality scoping paper. Group discussions included common research interests, applied research opportunities and challenges related to targeting watershed management activities. A March 2011 policy memo from USEPA Assistant Director Nancy Stoner outlined expectations for states to develop statewide nutrient reduction strategies based on targeted and prioritized watershed areas. That catalyst memo reinforces related activities by conservation and agricultural interests (such as an emphasis on the 4Rs right source, right rate, right place, at the right time). Conference call May 22nd further developed research questions and web site [ Nutrient Targeting Orientation: A project of NC1190 Disproportionality Working Group Website address: http://erc.cals.wisc.edu/targetingprimer/ ] The site is organized around 4 main areas, and currently intended as an orientation to the concepts of this workgroup for resource and conservation managers. Four main Areas so far: 1) What is Targeting? (general definition, critical source areas, disproportionality, benefit asymmetry farmers don't see benefit to themselves; social pressure); 2) Management Frameworks (general definition; watershed planning; adaptive management; performance based management; 3) Data Acquisition for Targeting how to put target in practice? (quantitative watershed data, data inventory methods and resources) 4) Watershed Models (each element has sublinks, overview, BASINS, SWAT, HSPF, Academic resources) . Research questions include: 1) how to deploy this information to be a catalyst event? Data sets what we know, have learned? How to turn it into catalyst? The culumination is objective 5 using the website to pull it together. 2) how does the use the language of disproportionality influence desired actions? 3) how is disproportionality a driver of actions? We often see the consequences of action but what are the factors driving change? 4) how does resistance to the idea of targeting affect water resource management? (how does institutional resistance to targeting per se and relationship to voluntary v mandatory influence farmer actions? 5) What are counter agents that neutralize catalysts, inhibitors? Roles of catalysts and outcomes (Prokopy, Braiser, Floress co-leads; Babin, Morton, Moore, Kaufman, McGuire, Genskow, Burbach, Mullendore, Benning, Kennedy). Conceptual development of catalysts leading to the formation of watershed groups has been the initial focus of this group. A literature review and journal article was submitted in 2012 (under review) focused on a matrix of catalytic events triggering watershed group formation. The role of catalysts was further developed by NC 1190 members present at the 2013 annual meeting. As a result, a draft matrix of catalysts and outcomes beyond watershed group formation was developed along with several figures to illustrate pathways and relationships. Two key areas of the matrix are: 1) types of catalysts that contribute to change with a focus on one or multiple event that converge to create change ie a bioaccumulation of events; and 2)characteristics of outcomes of catalysts. The team goal is to further develop these ideas into a paper. Babin will further develop the figure in early August 2013 for group webinar discussion. The goal of the webinar (August 21st 9am Ct/10AM EST) Purdue adobe connect) will be to 1) refine literature 2) further develop definitions and 3) outline a paper lead by Morton and Babin. The paper will provide a foundation to guide objectives 1-5 in clarifying the meaning of catalysts and characteristic outcomes for water resource protection and restoration.

Publications

1.Publications " Arbuckle, JG, LS Prokopy, T. Haigh, J Hobbs*, T Knoot, C Knutson, A Loy*, AS Mase, J McGuire*, LW Morton, J Tyndall, M Widhalm (2013) Climate Change Beliefs, Concerns, and Attitudes toward Adaptation and Mitigation among Farmers in the Midwestern United States. Climatic Change. 117:943950. " Brinkman, E., Seekamp, E., Davenport, M.A., & Brehm, J.M. (2012). Community capacity for watershed conservation: A quantitative assessment of indicators and core dimensions. Environmental Management, 50(4), 736-749. " Burbach, M.E., & Reimers-Hild, C. (2012). 2012 Nebraska Water Leaders Academy Final Report. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Open-File Report 114. " Christoffel, R and A Carter* (2012) Strategizing Partnerships for Managing Natural Resources. Iowa State University Extension. PM 3030A. https://store.extension.iastate.edu/ItemDetail.aspx?ProductID=13913 " Comito, J, J Wolseth, and L.W. Morton (2013) Stewards, Businessmen, and Heroes? Role Conflict and Contradiction among Row-Crop Farmers in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty. Human Organization 71:4: " Comito, J, J Wolseth, LW Morton (2013). The States Role in Water Quality: Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners as Risk Brokers and Production Cheerleaders Human Organization (Feb/Mar) 72:1:44-54. " Comito, J, J Wolseth, LW Morton (2012) Tillage Practices, the Language of Blame and Responsibility for Water Quality Impacts in Cultivated Row Crop Agriculture. Human Ecology Review (Winter) 19(2). " Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., Burbach, M.E., & Lynne, G.D. (2013). Smiley or Frowney: The effect of emotions and empathy framing in a downstream water pollution game. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 5(3), 9-23 " Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Lynne, G.D., & Burbach, M.E. (2012, September). Inducing empathy or imposing a fine? Finding solutions to the downstream water pollution problem. Cornhusker Economics. " Davenport, M.A., & Seekamp, E. (2013). A multilevel model of community capacity for sustainable watershed management. Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal. DOI:10.1080/08941920.2012.729650 " Davenport, M.A., Pradhananga, A., & Nelson, P. (2013). Increasing voluntary conservation practice adoption through research and relationship-building. Water Resources Impact, 15 (2), 9-12. " Davenport, M.A. & Olson, B. (2012). Nitrogen use and determinants of best management practices: A study of Rush River and Elm Creek watershed agricultural producers. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 78 pp. " Davenport, M.A., & Pradhananga, A. (2012). Perspectives on Minnesota water resources: A survey of Sand Creek and Vermillion River watershed landowners. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 84 pp. " Gold, AJ, D Parker, RM Waskom, J Dobrowolski, M ONeill, PM Groffman, K Addy&&LW Morton (35 co-authors) (2013) Advancing water resource management in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds: Why Land-Grant Universities Matter. Journal of Soil & Water Conservation 68:4:337-348Mehta, V., C. L. Knutson, N.J. Rosenberg, J.R. Olson, M.J. Hayes, N. Wall, and T. Bernadt, 2013. Decadal Climate Information Needs of Stakeholders for Decision Support in Water and Agriculture Production Sectors: A Case Study of the Missouri River Basin. Climate, Weather, and Society. Vol. 5, pp. 27-42. " McGuire, JM*, LW Morton, AD Cast (2013) Reconstructing the good farmer identity: shifts in farmer identities and farm management practices to improve water quality. Agriculture and Human Values. 30:57-69. " Morton, LW and KR Olson (2013) Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway: Redesign, Reconstruction and Restoration (Mar/Apr) Journal of Soil & Water Conservation. 68 (2) " Morton, LW, J Hobbs*, JG Arbuckle (2013) Shifts in Farmer Uncertainty Over Time About Sustainable Farming Practices and Modern Farming Reliance on Commercial Fertilizers, Insecticides and Herbicides Journal Soil & Water Conservation 68(1):1-12. " Mountjoy, N. J., E. Seekamp, M. A. Davenport and M. R. Whiles. (2013). Identifying capacity indicators for community-based natural resource management initiatives: Focus group results from conservation practitioners across Illinois. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. DOI:10.1080/09640568.2012.743880. " Newman, JK, AL Kaleita and L.W. Morton. (2013) Stakeholder perspectives: An important component for apply total maximum daily load science Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Jan/Feb 68(1):73-81. " Olson, KR and LW Morton. (2013) Soil and crop damages as a result of levee breaches on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers Journal of Earth Science and Engineering. 3:3: " Arbuckle, JG, LW Morton, J. Hobbs*. (in press) Farmer beliefs and concerns about climate change and attitudes towards adaptive and mitigative action. Climatic Change " Olson, KR and LW Morton (2013) Restoration of 2011 Flood Damaged BirdsPoint-New Madrid Floodway (Jan/Feb) Journal of Soil & Water Conservation Jan/Feb 68(1):13A-18A doi:10.2489/jswc.68.1.13A " Pradhananga, A. & Davenport, M.A. (2013). A community capacity assessment study in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed, Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 64 pp. " Prokopy, LS, T. Haigh, AS Mase, J Angel, C Hart, C Knutson, MC Lemos, YJ Lo, J McGuire*, LW Morton, J Perron, D Todey, M Widhalm (2013) Agricultural Advisors: A Receptive Audience for Weather and Climate Information? Weather Climate and Society. 5:162167. " Smith, J.W., Leahy, J.E., Anderson, D.H., & Davenport, M.A. (2013). Community/agency trust: A measurement instrument. Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal, DOI:10.1080/08941920.2012.742606 " Smith, J.W., Leahy, J.E., Anderson, D.H., & Davenport, M.A. (2012). Community/agency trust and public involvement in resource planning. Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal, DOI:10.1080/08941920.2012.678465. 2. Presentations " Burbach, M.E., Reimers-Hild, C., & Orton, L. (2012, November). The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy: Blending water policy and science with leadership theory. NSIA & NWRA 2012 Joint Annual Convention. " Burbach, M.E., Reimers-Hild, C., & Orton, L. (2012, November). The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy: Blending water policy and science with leadership theory. Water: Science, Practice and Policy 2012, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. " Burbach, M.E. (2012, August). Is a fully-sustainable world within reach? Opportunities for Nebraska, 3, 38-39. " Burbach, M.E., & Reimers-Hild, C. (2012, June). The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy: Blending water policy and science with leadership theory. The 7th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. " Carter, A. * Re-Visioning the Landscape: Women Landowners in Iowa. Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, IL. March 29, 2013. " Carter, A.* and Steve Konrady. "What's the Catch? Collaborations in Urban Fisheries Management",Iowa Park and Recreation Association (IPRA) Spring Conference, April 7-10, 2013. " Carter, A. *, Lois Wright Morton, and Rebecca Christoffel. Women and Water Quality Conservation. Heartland Meeting. Kansas City, KS. April 15-17, 2013. " Carter, A. *, Rebecca Christoffel, and Lois Wright Morton. Partnerships in Action: Using Social Capital and Social Planning In Collaborative Programs. American Fisheries Society Iowa Chapter Annual Meeting and Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Statewide Meeting. Moravia, Iowa. February 11, 2013. " Carter, A.* and Rebecca Christoffel. Navigating the Waters Project Update. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7, Lenexa, KS. November 13, 2012. " Carter, A.*, Steve Konrady, and Barb Gigar. Whats the catch? Social science and program success. 2012 Biennial National Conference Aquatic Resources Education Association. Phoenix, AZ. October 21-25, 2012. " Coulter, J.A., Yost, M.A., Russelle, M.P., Davenport, M.A., & Porter, P.M. (2012). Nitrogen management for corn after alfalfa: Current practices and opportunities. 2012 American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 21-24, 2012. " Davenport, M.A. (2012). Social science assessment for civic engagement. Southwest Minnesota Cohort on Civic Engagement Workshop, Redwood Falls, MN March 27, 2013. " Davenport, M.A. & Kuphal, T. (2012). Putting targeting into practice: Understanding and winning the confidence of landowners. Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Convention, Bloomington, MN, December 3, 2012. " Davenport, M.A. (2012). Social science assessment for civic engagement. Southeast Minnesota Cohort on Civic Engagement Workshop, Oronoco, MN Nov. 8, 2012. " Genskow, K. and C. Betz. 2012. Farm Practices in the Lake Mendota Watershed: A Comparative Analysis of 1995 and 2011. Technical Report for Dane County Office of Lakes and Watersheds, Land and Water Resources Department. UW-Extension Environmental Resources Center. (52 pages) " Hoffman, C., Burbach, M., & Pennisi, L. (2012, June). A case study exploring water management in the Platte River Basin, Nebraska as seen by stakeholders. 18th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. " Knutson, C. Interranual to Decadal Climate Variability and Urban Water Security Workshop, Great Falls, MT, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System and National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 9, 2012 " Knutson, C. Interranual to Decadal Climate Variability and Urban Water Security Workshop, Lincoln, NE, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System and National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 11, 2012 " Knutson, C. Interranual to Decadal Climate Variability and Urban Water Security Workshop, Kansas City, MO, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System and National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 12, 2012 Kubicek, E., Burbach, M.E., & Tang, Z. (2012, November). Using normative messages to encourage pro-environmental behaviors. Water: Science, Practice and Policy 2012, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. " McGuire, J.*, LW Morton and JG Arbuckle. Who is a Good Farmer? 2012, July 29. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois (~ 8) " McGuire, J*, LW Morton, JG Arbuckle and AD Cast 2013 April 16.Farmer Identity Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative Regional Conference. Overland Park, Kansas City, Jean McGuire [~30] " Morton, LW. The Heartland Effect 2013 April 15. Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative Regional Conference. Overland Park, Kansas City. [~200] " Morton, LW. Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate 2013 April 8, North American Ag Journalists Cosmos Club, Washington DC [~60 journalists] " Morton, LW 2012 Climate Change, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project SARE Carbon, Energy, & Climate Sept 27 Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University [~80] " Morton, LW Obtaining a Social License for the Bioeconomy. 2012 October 3, Growing the Bioeconomy Conference Banff, Canada. " Morton LW and KR Olson 2012 Inpacts of 2011 Induced Levee Breaches on Ag Lands in Mississippi River Valley; and Effects of 2011 Ohio and Mississippi River Valley Flooding on Cairo Illinois; also award for best article in 2011 SWCS July 22-26 Ft Worth TX " Olson, K.R. and L.W. Morton April 2013 Soil & crop damages as a result of levee braches on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; Environmental Science session Asia-Pacific International Congress on Engineering & Natural Sciences ( APICENS) April 16-18 Landmark Bangkok Thailand " Pradhananga, A., Davenport, M.A., & Bundy, D. (2012). Understanding and influencing recreational boaters stewardship behaviors. American Fisheries Society, 142nd Annual Meeting, St. Paul, MN, August 20, 2012. " Robinson, P., K. Genskow, B. Shaw, and R. Shepard. 2012. Barriers and opportunities for integrating social science into natural resource management: Lessons from National Estuarine Research Reserves. Environmental Management. 50:998-1011. " Thurston L., C. Smith, K. Genskow, L. Prokopy, W. Hargrove. 2012. The Social Context of Water Quality Improvement Evaluation. In D. J. Rog, J. L. Fitzpatrick, & R. F. Conner (Eds.), Context: A framework for its influence on evaluation practice. New Directions for Evaluation, 135, 4158. 3. Websites: http://www.soc.iastate.edu/extension/urbanfishingprogram.html Urban Fishing Program Case Study website http://www.soc.iastate.edu/extension/navigatingthewaters/intro.html Navigating the Waters website www.sustainablecorn.org USDA-NIFA Climate Change, Mitigation & Adaptation in Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) (10 Land Grant Universities, 1 USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) lab) www.heartlandwq.iastate.edu USDA Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative (Iowa, Missouri, Kansa, Nebraska) www.soc.iastate.edu/extension/watershed/performance.html Extension performance-based farmer-led watershed management program Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adaptation Recommendations. 2013. 25x25 Adaptation Task Force 42 project co-authors incl LW Morton. Washington, DC. 49 pg www.25x25.org Website/Tool: Nutrient Targeting Orientation: A project of NC1190 Disproportionality Working Group Website address: http://erc.cals.wisc.edu/targetingprimer/ Website/Tool: Social Indicators Data Management and Analysis (SIDMA) tool, hosted by Michigan State University, Institute of Water Research: http://www.iwr.msu.edu/sidma/ 4. Funded research " Burbach, M.E., and C. Reimers-Hild.Nebraska Water Leaders Academy. Funded by the Nebraska Environmental Trust, 4/2013 3/ 2014, $20,822 " Christoffel, Rebecca, Lois Wright Morton, Timothy Stewart and Angela Carter. Navigating the Waters: A Wetland Development Guide for Agencies and Organizations Working with Women Landowners. EPA Region 7 $234,421 Jan 1, 2012 to Dec. 31, 2015 " Davenport, M. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Social Measures for Clean Water Funds Effectiveness Tracking, $10,000, 5/20/2013-9/1/2013. " Davenport, M. Cannon River Watershed Partnership, Community Capacity Assessments in the Cannon River Watershed, $38,500, 5/1/2013-3/30/2015. " Davenport, M. College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences Hatch, An Assessment of Adaptive Capacity for Ecosystem Change in a Forest-Associated Tribal Community, $15,500, 1/31/2013-9/30/2013. " Davenport , M. Freshwater Society. An Assessment of FarmWise and Its Impacts on Agricultural Practices. $15,000, 10/01/2012-9/30/2013. " Kingery, L. & M. Davenport Northwest Minnesota Foundation. A Social Science Assessment of Conservation Practices in the Red River Valley. $25,000, 11/1/2012-10/31/2014. " Davenport, M. Northwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnership, University of Minnesota. A Social Science Assessment of Conservation Practices in the Red River Valley. $19,565, 7/1/2012-12/31/2013. " Gasteyer, S., C. Knutson, N. Wall, and A. Schutz, Shifting Intermediaries: Tracing the Land Grant Role in Water Management in Nebraska, USDA NCRCRD, $20,000, 12/12-9/13 " Morton, L.W. and C. Ingels. Monitoring Nutrient Losses from Tile-drained Fields in the Middel Cedar Watershed. Lime Creek Watershed Improvement $21,000 July 1, 2013- June 30, 2015 " Morton, LW and J Benning. Building Capacity for Climate Extension NC SARE Professional Development $65,934. Jan. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31, 2015. " Morton, L.W., Matt Helmers, Jacqueline Comito. Iowa Learning Farms: Building a Culture of Conservation-Farmer to Farmer, Iowan to Iowan. Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship. Jan. 1, 2012 to Dec. 30, 2012. $411,283. " Pennisi, L., and M.E. Burbach. 2012 Assessment of Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program. Funded by the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, January 2013 June 2013, $9,547. " Prokopy, L., LW Morton, C. Hart, M. Lemos. Evaluating the impact of extreme drought on farm advisors perceptions of climate risks in the US Corn Belt. NOAA-SARP, $283,359 Sept. 1, 2013-Aug. 31, 2015. On-going research and plans for the coming year " Several NC1190 partners have developed a draft manuscript of models of water-related leadership development programs and will submit this in 2013. " NC1190 partners will collaborate on a follow-up to the catalyst typologies manuscript. " One member will continue operation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy. " A summary of cases in our watershed group study is being developed that will be used for a paper examining events that catalyze collective action related to water quality in greater detail (objective 2). " Conservation adoption research is taking place in a small watershed in Pennsylvania, drawing from collaborations made possible through interaction with NC1190 members. " Current research projects are being completed to better understand the mechanisms and conditions by which catalysts are translated into individual, collective, and institutional action, and identify and evaluate adaptive strategies to protect water resources. " NC1190 partners will continue to collaborate to share lessons learned and better understand catalysts for change in water conservation behavior, management and governance. " One member is conducting a literature review of social science research conducted in Minnesota and the Midwest to inform the Clean Water Fund Effectiveness Tracking Social Measures Metadata Sheets development. " One member is applying the community capacity model to multiple study sites in Minnesota and building construct and indicator sample sets. " A study of civic structure and environmental movements in China is being undertaken. " A study of Mississippi River Basin flooding, soil damage, and land use impacts is being undertaken. Manuscripts in Preparation " Loy, A*, J Hobbs*, JG Arbuckle, LW Morton A Statistical Atlas of Agriculture & Weather Variability: Survey of Corn Belt Farmers) Climate & Corn-based Cropping Systems CAP web based publication www.sustainablecorn.org " Olson, KR and LW Morton Dredging of the fractured bedrock laden Mississippi River channel at Thebes, Illinois " McGuire, J*, LW Morton, AD Cast, JG Arbuckle. Farmer identities and the practice of agriculture. Sociologia Ruralis " McGuire, J*, LW Morton, JG Arbuckle and AD Cast. Climate Change, Corn Cropping Systems and the Farmer Identity " Morton, LW, J Hobbs*, JG Arbuckle, A Loy*. Midwest Farmer Perceptions of Excess Water Related Risks and Adaptive Management Responses Society and Natural Resources " LW Morton and KR Olson. The 2011 Ohio River Floodwaters Reclaimed its Ancient Floodway through the Cache River Valley of Southern Illinois " Morton and N Babin lead (with other NC1190 members) Catalyst Typologies Matrix, theoretical figure and draft paper

Impact Statements

Water-related leadership.(Burbach, Floress, Kaufman co-leads; Kennedy) Investigation to determine if water-related leadership development programs are theory based; if they provide assessment, challenge, and support; and if they are long-term. Preliminary data analysis reveals 31 programs advertised as natural resources or water leadership development programs. Of these, 13 were theory based, 7 included assessment and 8 challenge/support using the McCauley et al (2010) model of leadership development.
Disproportionality (Genskow, lead; Moore, Ribaldo, Gasteyer, Prokopy, Morton, McGuire, Braiser). Plans are in progress to develop a disproportionality scoping paper. Group discussions included common research interests, applied research opportunities and challenges related to targeting watershed management activities. See web site [ Nutrient Targeting Orientation: A project of NC1190 Disproportionality Working Group Website address: http://erc.cals.wisc.edu/targetingprimer/ ] The site is organized around 4 main areas, and currently intended as an orientation to the concepts of this workgroup for resource and conservation managers.
Roles of catalysts and outcomes (Prokopy, Braiser, Floress co-leads; Babin, Morton, Moore, Kaufman, McGuire, Genskow, Burbach, Mullendore, Benning, Kennedy). Conceptual development of catalysts leading to the formation of watershed groups has been the initial focus of this group. A literature review and journal article was submitted in 2012 (under review) focused on a matrix of catalytic events triggering watershed group formation. The role of catalysts was further developed by NC 1190 members present at the 2013 annual meeting.

Date of Annual Report: 04/16/2015

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 06/02/2014 - 06/04/2014
Period the Report Covers: 06/01/2013 - 06/01/2014

Participants

Brief Summary of Minutes

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Date of Annual Report: 08/17/2015

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 06/01/2015 - 06/03/2015
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2014 - 09/01/2015

Participants

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Accomplishments

Objective 1: Identify and Develop Typologies of Catalysts for Change in Conservation Behavior, Resource Management, and Governance in a Water Context. Objective 2: Determine the mechanisms and conditions by which catalysts are translated into individual, collective, and institutional action. Objective 3: Understand and develop typologies of individual, institutional, and collective actions and social and ecological outcomes. Objective 4: Synthesize and assess conceptual frameworks and analytical models of catalysts, conditions, and potential outcomes. Objective 5: Identify, develop, and evaluate adaptive strategies to achieve desired actions and capacities to protect water resources. Several projects are underway in Minnesota (M. Davenport) that address aspects of objectives 2, 3, & 5. The Building Climate Readiness in Nature-Based Tourism-Dependent Coastal Communities project goals are to (1) assess vulnerability and adaptive capacity in recreation and tourism dependent communities and (2) engage decision makers and actors in assessment, discussion, and action planning to build climate readiness. Six presentations were given at professional conferences and one journal article accepted for publication. Team also completed and submitted an interim report to funder. The Community Capacity Assessment for Storm Water Management Project examines drivers of and constraints to community capacity to engage in storm water management in the watersheds, values, beliefs and norms associated with water resources and water resource management, perceptions of existing water resource programs, water resource programming most likely to influence future conservation behavior. The project team has conducted more than 50 interviews is designing a resident survey, and completed and submitted an interim report to funders. The Community Capacity Assessment, Governance and Program Evaluation is assessing (1) landowner/resource user values and beliefs about their communities, the environment, water quality issues and water resource conservation; (2) current and future conservation actions; and (3) who or what influences conservation decisions. The project was also designed to evaluate existing or potential conservation programs including a watershed planning and management approach, collaborative farmer decision making, and farmer-led councils. Conducted more than 50 interviews with farmers, farmland owners and water resource and land use planners/managers and administered a landowner survey to 1,000 property owners in 5 subwatersheds. Completed and submitted four project reports to funders, gave multiple invited seminars and workshops statewide, had one journal article accepted for publication. The Social Measures for Clean Water Funds Effectiveness Tracking project tracks the social outcomes of Clean Water Funds through a social measures monitoring system to assess the impacts of clean water projects on community capacity. Several Iowa projects made progress toward objectives. LW Morton collected data and published papers on changing climate in the Mississippi River Basin, farmer practices and management decisions and riverine flooding in leveed agricultural landscapes. Received $50,000 from Midwest Climate Hub to gather social science data on Great Lake specialty crop growers on impacts of precipitation and changing climate on soil and water resources and production practices. Conducted Nutrient Reduction Research for $175,000 grant titled Social-Economic Research on Iowa Nutrient Reduction. Continued to work with two NE Iowa farmer-led watershed groups funded by $21,000 watershed Improvement grants. Farmer identity work focused on relationships between identity and social biophysical environmental context, consultation with Wisconsin watershed groups developing a survey using farmer identity theory but modifying for applications to dairy producer, preliminary collaboration with Kansas State University developing farmer identity instrument for use with beef producers in KS, OK, & IA as part of SARE proposal. A second farmer identity analysis in preparation as it relates to the role of farmer identity in addressing agricultural water quality within the US Corn Belt utilizing Sustainable Corn CAP survey data. Gathered identity data as part of NOAA-SARP grant with Purdue project interviewing 24 Iowa farmer advisors around agronomic, financial, conservation themes associated with water and soil management (in conjunction with Nebraska, Indiana colleagues) Coding of 40+ transcripts begun. J. Arbuckle has been examining the relationships between two catalytic forces: 1) the establishment of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy and 2) the creation of the Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award, and shifts in farmers’ water quality awareness, attitudes, and behaviors. At the US Forest Service, K. Floress secured funding to analyze regional social indicators data to build models of individual behavior. She is working with L. Prokopy and others to conduct innovative, integrative model building that will provide findings leading regional recommendations on catalyzing positive water quality behaviors. A. Rissman published several NC1190-related papers. One, which received significant local media coverage, focused on the long-term changes in policy and drivers of water quality in the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin (Gillon et al. 2015 listed above) and examines the reasons that improving water quality outcomes has been difficult despite significant institutional and collective action. Another examined barriers to targeting high-phosphorus yielding areas, demonstrating a disconnect between spatial areas of policy implementation and areas of high phosphorus yield and examined the barriers including institutional fragmentation responsible for that disconnect. A third paper summarizes the challenges in both producing and using science to improve water quality. Indiana NC1190 members N. Babin and L. Prokopy analyzed agricultural industry trade articles and interviews with agricultural advisors on both adaptation to climate risk as well as the adoption of conservation practices as a result of the 2012 drought. They also evaluated the maintenance and diffusion of rain barrels in several Indiana watersheds, the results of which will contribute to our understanding of the adoption and maintenance of water quality and climate change BMPs in urban and sub-urban landscapes within the Lake Michigan region, a topic about which we have very little scientific understanding. Other efforts included a paper focused on baseline social capacity and other conditions that are necessary for catalysts to lead to change, to help identify watersheds that have baseline conditions that may lead to more successful outcomes, and the potential for proximate concerns (e.g., local species of concern such as mussels) vs. distant concerns such as Gulf hypoxia to catalyze farmer behavior change. Jessica Ulrich-Schad successfully surveyed and conducted interviews with a small population of Amish farmers in a watershed in NE Indiana about their conservation practices and attitudes; she will be analyzing those data soon and providing recommendations to local conservation practitioners so that they can improve their relationships with Amish farmers in the area and increase their uptake of conservation practices. She also analyzed data and wrote two papers on nutrient management decision-making and conservation practices among agricultural landowners (absentee) and producers in Indiana. She is also in the process of analyzing pre-post social indicator survey data from two watersheds in Indiana; this will provide a sense of whether local water conservation outreach efforts were effective among both agricultural and urban/lake residents. She has collaborated extensively with Linda Prokopy and Nick Babin on some of these efforts. M. Burbach, K. Floress, and E. Kaufman collaborated on research showing that water-related leadership development programs should be theory based and provide assessment, challenge, and support; and offer a variety of developmental experiences and the opportunity to learn from experience. E. Kaufman continued to explore eco-leadership as a mechanism and condition for translating catalysts into action. Observed relationships between community groups’ leadership style, group cohesion, and community project engagement. Significant factors included idealized attributes and inspirational motivation.

Publications

A list of 2014-2015 publications, presentations, and grants was uploaded as a PDF file.

Publications Attachment:

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Impact Statements

Findings from research conducted by NC1190 members has been disseminated through numerous publications, presentations, and websites. Many trainings, presentations, workshops, and publications were given to citizens, policy makers, and academic audiences over the past year to disseminate the results of the various research efforts by team members.
NC1190 team members have developed social monitoring systems and served on working group for their states, developed literature reviews to inform decision making, assisted collaborative watershed groups to develop strategies for addressing water management, and provided policy recommendations for water pollution problems.
NC1190 members worked on at least 29 water quality-related grants totaling $ $9,830,832 in 2014-2015, published at least 56 water quality-related journal articles, technical reports, etc. in 2014-2015, and presented at least 46 water quality-related presentations at conferences or to stakeholders in 2014-2015.
In MN, Dr. Davenport?s projects Building Climate Readiness in Nature-Based Tourism-Dependent Coastal Communities project Post focus group evaluation revealed the project has raised awareness and prompted participants to take action to build climate readiness in their own networks. Community Capacity Assessment for Storm Water Management Project has led partners to begin to update their education and outreach programming based on preliminary findings.
Dr. Davenport?s Community Capacity Assessment, Governance and Program Evaluation has helped project partners to use project findings to enhance civic engagement efforts and to make policy recommendations. Social Measures for Clean Water Funds Effectiveness Tracking project led to five agencies piloting social indicators monitoring systems in their water projects across MN.
A regional assessment of leadership and water quality action conducted by Burbach, Floress, and Kaufman led to increased awareness that there is an urgent need for new or revised leadership development programs for those interested in water resource management.
Other impacts from Burbach?s research on transitioning water management institutions led to heightened awareness that the management system could be improved by ensuring that all stakeholder interests are represented, providing increased opportunities to participate, and continuing to work toward more holistic and proactive water management. Other research by Burbach showed that environmental policy can be more effective when non-pecuniary incentives and nudges are incorporated into narrative.
In Iowa, government and NGO agricultural stakeholders have used findings from research conducted by J. Arbuckle and LW Morton to guide outreach to farmers and agricultural advisers associated with the implementation of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a statewide effort to reduce Iowa?s nutrient loss from agriculture by 45 percent.

Date of Annual Report: 08/01/2016

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 06/02/2016 - 06/03/2016
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2015 - 09/30/2016

Participants

Meeting Attendees
Arbuckle, Jr., J. Gordon (Arbuckle@iastate.edu) – Iowa State University;
Brasier, Kathryn J (kbrasier@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State;
Brehm, Joan (jmbrehm@ilstu.edu) – Illinois State University;
Burbach, Mark E. (mburbach1@unl.edu) – University of Nebraska;
Davenport, Mae (mdaven@umn.edu) – University of Minnesota;
Floress, Kristin M. (kfloress@fs.fed.us) – USDA Forest Service;
Gasteyer, Stephen (gasteyer@msu.edu) – Michigan State University;
Genskow, Kenneth (kgenskow@wisc.edu) – University of Wisconsin;
Hoag, Dana L (dhoag@colostate.edu) – Colorado State University;
Kaufman, Eric K. (ekaufman@vt.edu) – Virginia Cooperative Extension;
Knutson, Cody L (cknutson1@unl.edu) – University of Nebraska;
Margerum, Rich (rdm@uoregon.edu) – University of Oregon;
Morton, Lois Wright (lwmorton@iastate.edu) – Iowa State University;
Onal, Hayri (h-onal@illinois.edu) – University of Illinois;
Prokopy, Linda S. (lprokopy@purdue.edu) – Purdue University;
Ribaudo, Marc (mribaudo@ers.usda.gov) – USDA-ERS/RED;
Rissman, Adena (adena.rissman@wisc.edu) – University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Sanderson, Matthew (mattrs@ksu.edu) – Kansas State University;
Ulrich-Schad, Jessica (jessicad.ulrich@gmail.com) – South Dakota State University;

Brief Summary of Minutes

Minutes Attachment:

2016 June Ames meeting minutes.docx

Accomplishments

Accomplishments Objective 1: Identify and Develop Typologies of Catalysts for Change in Conservation Behavior, Resource Management, and Governance in a Water Context. Objective 2: Determine the mechanisms and conditions by which catalysts are translated into individual, collective, and institutional action. Objective 3: Understand and develop typologies of individual, institutional, and collective actions and social and ecological outcomes. Objective 4: Synthesize and assess conceptual frameworks and analytical models of catalysts, conditions, and potential outcomes. Objective 5: Identify, develop, and evaluate adaptive strategies to achieve desired actions and capacities to protect water resources.   OUTPUTS: PUBLICATIONS Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. and Gabrielle Roesch-McNally. 2015. Cover crop adoption in Iowa: The role of perceived practice characteristics. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 70:419-434.   Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. 2015. Investigating Opportunities for Enhancing Adoption of Strategically Targeted Prairie Strips in Iowa Technical Report No. 1040. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension Sociology.   Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. 2016. Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: 2015 Summary Report. Extension Report PM3075. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension. (12 pp.)   Babin, Nicholas L., Nathan D. Mullendore and Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2016. Using Social Criteria to Select Watersheds for Non-point Source Agricultural Pollution Abatement Projects. Land Use Policy, 55: 327-333. <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837715001994">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837715001994</a>   Bonnell, J. and A. Baird. 2015. Social indicators for watershed leadership. Ohio State University Extension Bulletin #967.   Bonnell, J., C. Cook, E. Olson, J. Latimore, M. Illes, B. Fredrickson, L. Prokopy, L. Wright-Morton, M. Burbach, B. Broz, A. Lewandowski, R. Power, P. Ollervides. 2016. Watershed management: Developing leadership capacity in collaboration and civic engagement for collective action. Final report to the North Central Region Water Network.   Burbach, M.E., Reimers-Hild, C., & Cramer, J. (2016). 2015 Nebraska Water Leaders Academy – Final report. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Open-File Report 127.   Busse, Rebecca, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Lyn Creighton, Sara Peel, Ken Genskow, Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2015. Using Social Indicators to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Outreach in Two Indiana Watersheds. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 156: 5-20.   Carlton, J. Stuart, Amber S. Mase, Cody L. Knutson, Maria Carmen Lemos, Tonya Haigh, Dennis P. Todey, Linda S. Prokopy. 2016. The Effects of Extreme Drought on Climate Change Beliefs, Risk Perceptions, and Adaptation Attitudes. Climatic Change, 153(2): 211-226.   Chloe B. Wardropper, Sean Gillon, Amber S. Mase, Emily A. McKinney, Stephen R. Carpenter, Adena R. Rissman. 2016. Local perspectives and global archetypes in scenario storyline development. Ecology and Society. 21(2):12   Church, S.P. and L.S. Prokopy (2015). Indian Creek watershed project: Key takeaways for watershed success. Purdue Extension: FNR-511-W.   Church, S.P., N. Babin, B. Bentlage, L.S. Prokopy (Producers). A. Doenges (Editor). (2015). Indian Creek Watershed Project – Keys to Success: Partnerships and People. Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources Extension: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/IndianCreekSuccess">http://tinyurl.com/IndianCreekSuccess</a>.   Church, S.P., N. Babin, B. Bentlage, L.S. Prokopy (Producers). A. Doenges (Editor). (2015). Indian Creek Watershed Project – Keys to Success: Partnerships with Agribusinesses. Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources Extension: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/IndianCreekRetailers">http://tinyurl.com/IndianCreekRetailers</a>.   Czap, H.J., Czap, N.V., Lynne, G.D., & Burbach, M.E. (2016). Farm Bill 2014: An experimental investigation of conservation compliance. Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(3), 23-38.   Czap, N.V., Banerjee, S., Czap, H.J., Burbach, M.E., & Franti, T. (2015). Empathy conservation: A field experiment on encouraging farmer’s participation in the Nebraska Conservation Stewardship Program. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Open-File Report 129.   Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Lynne, G.D., & Burbach, M.E. (2015). Walk in my shoes: Nudging for empathy conservation. Ecological Economics, 118, 147–158.   Davenport, M.A., Perry, V. Pradhananga, A., & Shepard, J. (2016). Community capacity for stormwater management: A social science assessment in three Twin Cities Metro Area watersheds. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 126 pp.   Dunn, Michael, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Robert L. Myers, Chad R. Watts, Karen Scanlon. 2016. Perceptions and Use of Cover Crops among Early Adopters: Findings from a National Survey. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 71(1): 29-40.   Dunn, Mike, Nathan Mullendore, Silvestre Garcia de Jalon, Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2016. The Role of County Surveyors and County Drainage Boards in Addressing Water Quality. Environmental Management, 57:1217-1229.   Gao, Yuling, Nicholas Babin, Allison J. Turner, Cheyenne R. Hoffa, Sara Peel, Linda S. Prokopy. 2016. Understanding Urban-Suburban Adoption and Maintenance of Rain Barrels. Landscape and Urban Planning, 153: 99-110.   Kennedy, S.M., Burbach, M.E., & Sliwinski, M. (2016). Sustainable grassland management: An exploratory study of progressive ranchers in Nebraska. Sustainable Agriculture Research, 5(2), 103-113.   Mase, Amber Saylor, Nicholas L. Babin, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Kenneth Genskow. 2015. Trust in Sources of Soil and Water Quality Information: Implications for Environmental Outreach and Education. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 51(6): 1656-1666. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12349/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12349/abstract</a>   Pradhananga, A. & Davenport, M.A. (2015). Landowner motivations for civic engagement in water resource protection. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 51(6), 1600-1612. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12346.   Pradhananga, A., Davenport, M.A. & Perry, V. (2015). Groundwater management: Capacity assessment at the local level: A survey of Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 75 pp.   Prokopy, Linda Stalker, Kenneth Genskow. 2016. Social Indicator Variations Across Watersheds: Implications for Developing Outreach and Technical Assistance Programs. Society and Natural Resources, 29(5): 617-627.   Rissman, Adena R. and Sean Gillon. 2016. Where are ecology and biodiversity in social-ecological systems research? A review of research methods and applied recommendations. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12250   Rissman, Adena R. and Stephen R. Carpenter. 2015. Progress on nonpoint pollution: barriers and opportunities. Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences). 144(3): 35-47.   Savage, J., and M. Ribaudo.  2016.  “Improving the Efficiency of Voluntary Water Quality Conservation Programs,” Land Economics 92(1):148-166.   Smith, J.W., Seekamp, E., McCreary, A., Davenport, M.A., Kanazawa, M., Holmberg, K., Wilson, B., & Nieber, J. (2016). Shifting demand for winter outdoor recreation and tourism along the North Shore of Lake Superior under variable rates of climate change: A finite-mixture modeling approach. Ecological Economics, 123, 1-13.   Thompson, Aaron and Linda S. Prokopy. 2016. The Role of Sense of Place in Collaborative Planning. Journal of Sustainability Education, 11.   Ulrich-Schad, J.D., Babin, N., Ma, Z., & L.S. Prokopy. 2016. Out-of-state, out of mind? Non-operating farmland owners and conservation decision making. Land Use Policy. 54 <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837716301594">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837716301594</a>   Widhalm. 2016. Climate Change and Agricultural Extension; Building Capacity for Land Grant Extension Services to Address the Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change and the Adaptive Management Needs of Agricultural Stakeholders. Technical Report Series: Findings and Recommendations of the Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project. Vol 3 of 5. CSCAP Publication no. CSCAP-0192-2016.   Wolfson, L., J.E. Bonnell, J. Frankenberger, J. Latimore, A. Lewandowski, F. Sleeper. 2016. Developing capacity for local watershed management: Essential leadership skills and training approaches. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. 150. (pp.86-97).   Wright Morton, L., L.S. Prokopy, J.G. Arbuckle, Jr., C. Ingels, M. Thelen, R. Bellm, D. Bowman, L. Edwards, C. Ellis, R. Higgins, T. Higgins, D. Hudgins, R. Hoorman, J. Neufelder, B. Overstreet, A. Peltier, H. Schmitz, J. Voit, C. Wegehaupt, S. Wohnoutka, R. Wolkowski, L. Abendroth, J. Angel, T. Haigh, C. Hart, J. Klink, C. Knutson, R. Power, D. Todey, and M.     PRESENTATIONS: Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. and Gabrielle Roesch-McNally “Iowa Farmers’ Perspectives on Soil Health.” Soil Health Conference: Strategies for Building Soil Health, Ames, IA, February 2, 2016.   Arbuckle, J. 2016. “Iowa Farmers’ Perspectives and Actions on Nutrient Loss Reduction: Results from the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.” National Association of Conservation Districts North Central Region Meeting. Maxwell, IA, April 26, 2016   Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. “Iowa Farmers’ Perspectives on the Nutrient Reduction Strategy and Soil Health.” Invited presentation at the Sustaining Our Iowa Land (SOIL): The Past, Present and Future of Iowa’s Soil and Water Conservation Policy, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, November 19, 2015.   Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. “Iowa Farmers’ Use of Information Sources and Preferred Ways of Receiving Information.” North Central Cropping Systems Academy. Omaha, NE. December 22, 2015.   Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. “Iowa farmers’ willingness to take action in support of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy.” Iowa Water Conference, Ames, IA, March 23, 2016.   Burbach, M. “Citizen Participation & Collaborative Resource Management.” Water Leaders Academy, Valentine, NE, May 20, 2016.   Burbach, M.E. “Collaborative Watershed Management: Research Overview.” North Central Regional Water Network conference, Lincoln, NE, March 21, 2016.   Burbach, M.E. “Full Range Leadership for Leaders in the Water Arena.” Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Water Leaders Academy, Lincoln, NE, January 28, 2016.   Burbach, M.E. “Personal Empowerment – Continuing to Develop Your Leadership Capacity.” Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, Nebraska City, NE, November 19, 2015.   Burbach, M.E. “Tapping into Your Motivation to Serve and Inspiring Others in Their Service.” Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, Nebraska City, NE, November 19, 2015.   Bonnell, J. 2015. Building the perfect watershed leaders: A review of research and education programs from the upper Midwest. Presented at the Water Management Association of Ohio Annual Meeting. Columbus, Ohio. November.   Church, S.P. and L.S. Prokopy. (2015). “Capacity development through producer-led conservation practices: An evaluation of the Indian Creek Watershed conservation project”. Oral presentation. 21st International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM). Charleston, SC, June 13-18, 2015.   Church, S.P. (2015). “Social Science Evaluation of the Indian Creek watershed project, Livingston County, Illinois.” Invited webinar presented to the Alphabet Soup Group. Illinois Farm Bureau, December 17, 2015.   Davenport, M.A. (2015). Climate and coastal recreation resources: Adaption narratives from Northern Minnesota, USA. Seminar presented at School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia, November, 25, 2015.   Davenport, M.A. (2016). Climate vulnerability and community readiness on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Seminar presented at the University of Minnesota's Water Resources Sciences Seminar, St. Paul, Minnesota. February 19, 2016.   Katz, K., Davenport, M.A., Seekamp, E. (2016). Climate change adaptation perspectives in tourism-dependent communities on Lake Superior’s North Shore. (poster). 2016 Minnesota Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota. January 28, 2016.   Katz, K., Davenport, M.A., & Seekamp, E. (2016). Climate readiness on Lake Superior's North Shore: Perspectives on preserving place in a changing climate. Heart of the Continent Partnership Science Symposium, International Falls, Minnesota. March 10, 2016.   Kaufman, E. K. (2015, October). “Strengths-Based Leadership for Senior Design Teams.” Guest lecture for Biological Systems Engineering capstone class (BSE 4125) at Virginia Tech.   Kaufman, E. K. (2015, September). “The Leaders’ Toolshed and Strengths-Based Leadership.” Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener District Leadership Training.   McCreary, A., Smith, J.W., Seekamp, E. Davenport, M.A., & Kanazawa, M. (2015). Climate models, place meanings, and risk perceptions: Understanding the influences on nature-based tourism in coastal communities. International Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii’. November 10, 2015   McCreary, A., Seekamp, E., Smith, J.W., Davenport, M. (2016). Social values & social media: Understanding place meanings in coastal regions through the Instagram lens. Social Coast Forum 2016, Charleston, South Carolina. February 9, 2016.   Perry, V., Davenport, M.A. (2015). The luxury of participation: Urban water resource decision making and stakeholder engagement. Minnesota Water Resources Conference, October 12, 2015, St. Paul, MN.   Pradhananga, A., Pfeifer, S. & Davenport, M. (2015). Soil and Water Conservation District capacity to address groundwater issues. Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Board Meeting, November 4, 2015, St. Paul, MN.   Prokopy, Linda and Mike Dunn. October 2015. “Using Survey Results to Inform Indiana’s Nutrient Management Strategy,” USEPA Webinar.   Prokopy, Linda. December 2015. “Designing Effective Communication for Positive Behavior Change,” The Nature Conservancy, Indiana Chapter, All Staff Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.   Prokopy, Linda. November 2015. “Adaptation Challenges for the Central U.S. to a Changing Regional Climate,” Workshop on Arctic Change, Lincoln, NE.   Prokopy, Linda. November 2015. “Lessons Learned Evaluating the Useful to Usable Project,” Agronomy Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.   Prokopy, Linda. October 2015. “Co-Production and Agriculture,” Pennsylvania State University Graduate Seminar, College Station, PA.   Prokopy, Linda. October 2015. “Moving the Needle on Conservation Practice Adoption in the Agricultural Midwest,” Iowa State University Graduate Seminar, Ames, IA.   Prokopy, Linda. Two panels on survey methods at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) in June 2016 in Houghton, Michigan.   Ribaudo, M. 2016. “Improving the Efficiency of Conservation Programs:  The Value of Geospatial Data.”  Invited presentation at NRCS Geospatial Conservation Planning Operations Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, April 5-6.   Ribaudo, M.  2016.  “Incentivizing producers to take cost-effective conservation actions.”  Invited presentation at Conference of the Future of Stream Restoration and Preservation, Frederick, MD, April 2.   Ribaudo, M., N. Key, and S. Sneeringer.  2015.  “Assessing Nutrient Compliance as a Tool for Helping Mitigate Gulf Hypoxia.”  Poster at AAEA annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28.   Ribaudo, M.  2016.  “Water Quality Trading:  What is Success.”  Invited presentation at CLEAN annual meeting, Fort Collins, CO, February 22-23.   Rissman, Adena R. Private land conservation: roles, responsibilities, and responses to environmental change. Lincoln University, IUCN Symposium. April, 2016. Lincoln, New Zealand.   Rissman, Adena R. Private land conservation: roles, responsibilities, and responses to environmental change. New Zealand Department of Conservation. Wellington, New Zealand. April, 2016.   Rissman, Adena R. Private land conservation: roles, responsibilities, and responses to environmental change. University of Minnesota. April, 2016. Minneapolis, MN.   Rissman, Adena R. Trends in private land conservation: conservation easement terms,  adaptation to environmental change, and spatial data. Leopold Foundation. Baraboo, WI. January, 2016.   Sliwinski, M., Burbach, M., Powell, L., & Schacht, W. “Examining Landscape Heterogeneity and Understanding Ranchers’ Perceptions of Heterogeneity in the Northern Great Plains. Nebraska Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Annual Meeting, Kearney, NE, 8-10 March 2016.   Sliwinski, M., Burbach, M., Powell, L., & Schacht, W. “Understanding Ranchers’ Perceptions of Heterogeneity in the Northern Great Plains (poster).” Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 16-18 February 2016, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.   Tomer, Mark, Janet Buchanan, Joe Magner, Susan Stephan, Linda Prokopy. April 2016. “Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework: An Overview and Experience in Beargrass Creek and Silver Creek Watersheds.” USEPA webinar.   Wilson, B., Holmberg, K., Nieber, J. Davenport, M.A., Smith, J.W., Seekamp, E., McCreary, A. &, Kanazawa, M. (2015). Climate change in Minnesota’s North Shore. (poster). University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Annual Fall Showcase, St. Paul, Minnesota. October 8, 2015.   Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., Sarah P. Church, and Linda S. Prokopy.   “Measuring Farmers’ Sense of Place in the Context of Conservation Decision-Making.”  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL.   Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., “Understanding Farmers Awareness, Attitudes and Practices related to Nutrient Management in Indiana.”  Environmental Protection Agency Webisode 28.     WEBSITES: Building Climate Readiness on Minnesota’s North Shore. Northshoreclimate.com   Chesapeake Catfish. <a href="http://www.chesapeakecatfish.com/">http://www.chesapeakecatfish.com/</a>   Fusality for Stream and Field (Polys, Sforza, Scott, Hession, Kim, Munsell, Nease; Virginia Tech) <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/fusality-for-stream-and-field/people-involved">https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/fusality-for-stream-and-field/people-involved</a>   Nebraska Water Leaders Academy. http://waterleadersacademy.org/   Ohio Watershed Network. Ohiowatersheds.osu.edu   Reducing Antibiotic Resistance from Farm to Fork (Vallotton, Gugercin, Pruden-Bagchi, Archibald, Drape, Hession, Knowlton, Krometis, Ponder, Xia; Virginia Tech) <a href="http://www.hort.vt.edu/args/index.html">http://www.hort.vt.edu/args/index.html</a>   StREAM Lab Visualization (Hession, Scott; Virginia Tech) <a href="http://stroublesvideos.weebly.com/">http://stroublesvideos.weebly.com/</a>   Water Sustainability and Climate in the Yahara Watershed. <a href="https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/">https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/</a>   Yahara in situ. <a href="https://yaharawsc.wordpress.com/">https://yaharawsc.wordpress.com/</a>       Outcomes Several projects are underway in Minnesota (M. Davenport) that address aspects of objectives 2, 3, & 5. The Building Climate Readiness in Nature-Based Tourism-Dependent Coastal Communities project goals are to (1) assess vulnerability and adaptive capacity in recreation and tourism dependent communities and (2) engage decision makers and actors in assessment, discussion, and action planning to build climate readiness. Six presentations were given at professional conferences and one journal article accepted for publication. Team also completed and submitted an interim report to funder. The Community Capacity Assessment for Storm Water Management Project examines drivers of and constraints to community capacity to engage in storm water management in the watersheds, values, beliefs and norms associated with water resources and water resource management, perceptions of existing water resource programs, water resource programming most likely to influence future conservation behavior. The project team has conducted more than 50 interviews is designing a resident survey, and completed and submitted an interim report to funders. The Community Capacity Assessment, Governance and Program Evaluation is assessing (1) landowner/resource user values and beliefs about their communities, the environment, water quality issues and water resource conservation; (2) current and future conservation actions; and (3) who or what influences conservation decisions. The project was also designed to evaluate existing or potential conservation programs including a watershed planning and management approach, collaborative farmer decision making, and farmer-led councils. Conducted more than 50 interviews with farmers, farmland owners and water resource and land use planners/managers and administered a landowner survey to 1,000 property owners in 5 subwatersheds. Completed and submitted four project reports to funders, gave multiple invited seminars and workshops statewide, had one journal article accepted for publication. The Social Measures for Clean Water Funds Effectiveness Tracking project tracks the social outcomes of Clean Water Funds through a social measures monitoring system to assess the impacts of clean water projects on community capacity. Several Iowa projects made progress toward objectives. LW Morton collected data and published papers on changing climate in the Mississippi River Basin, farmer practices and management decisions and riverine flooding in leveed agricultural landscapes. Received $50,000 from Midwest Climate Hub to gather social science data on Great Lake specialty crop growers on impacts of precipitation and changing climate on soil and water resources and production practices. Conducted Nutrient Reduction Research for $175,000 grant titled Social-Economic Research on Iowa Nutrient Reduction. Continued to work with two NE Iowa farmer-led watershed groups funded by $21,000 watershed Improvement grants. Farmer identity work focused on relationships between identity and social biophysical environmental context, consultation with Wisconsin watershed groups developing a survey using farmer identity theory but modifying for applications to dairy producer, preliminary collaboration with Kansas State University developing farmer identity instrument for use with beef producers in KS, OK, & IA as part of SARE proposal. A second farmer identity analysis in preparation as it relates to the role of farmer identity in addressing agricultural water quality within the US Corn Belt utilizing Sustainable Corn CAP survey data. Gathered identity data as part of NOAA-SARP grant with Purdue project interviewing 24 Iowa farmer advisors around agronomic, financial, conservation themes associated with water and soil management (in conjunction with Nebraska, Indiana colleagues) Coding of 40+ transcripts begun.   Arbuckle’s 2015-16 research in Iowa has examined the relationships between a major catalytic event: the implementation of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy to address nutrient loss from Iowa farms and reduce surface water impairments and Gulf Hypoxia; and shifts in farmers’ water quality awareness, attitudes, and behaviors. In 2016, he conducted a second round of a five-year survey that is tracking changes in farmer awareness, attitudes, and actions in support of Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy. He published several articles and reports that contributed to the body of knowledge on factors associated with farmer attitudes toward and actions in support of water quality improvement. He gave numerous presentations on research findings to key stakeholder groups.   At the US Forest Service, K. Floress secured funding to analyze regional social indicators data to build models of individual behavior. She is working with L. Prokopy and others to conduct innovative, integrative model building that will provide findings leading regional recommendations on catalyzing positive water quality behaviors. A. Rissman A. Rissman developed two new analyses: 1) an examination of uncertainty in phosphorus measurement and modeling in the YaharaWins Wisconsin Adaptive Management Option, a water-quality-trading-like program and 2) a survey of soil and water conservation district employees about their use of water quality information and adaptation to large storm events. She also published several NC1190-related papers. One, which received significant local media coverage, focused on the long-term changes in policy and drivers of water quality in the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin (Gillon et al. 2015 listed above) and examines the reasons that improving water quality outcomes has been difficult despite significant institutional and collective action. Another examined barriers to targeting high-phosphorus yielding areas, demonstrating a disconnect between spatial areas of policy implementation and areas of high phosphorus yield and examined the barriers including institutional fragmentation responsible for that disconnect. A third paper summarizes the challenges in both producing and using science to improve water quality. Indiana NC1190 members N. Babin and L. Prokopy analyzed agricultural industry trade articles and interviews with agricultural advisors on both adaptation to climate risk as well as the adoption of conservation practices as a result of the 2012 drought. They also evaluated the maintenance and diffusion of rain barrels in several Indiana watersheds, the results of which will contribute to our understanding of the adoption and maintenance of water quality and climate change BMPs in urban and sub-urban landscapes within the Lake Michigan region, a topic about which we have very little scientific understanding. Other efforts included a paper focused on baseline social capacity and other conditions that are necessary for catalysts to lead to change, to help identify watersheds that have baseline conditions that may lead to more successful outcomes, and the potential for proximate concerns (e.g., local species of concern such as mussels) vs. distant concerns such as Gulf hypoxia to catalyze farmer behavior change. Jessica Ulrich-Schad successfully surveyed and conducted interviews with a small population of Amish farmers in a watershed in NE Indiana about their conservation practices and attitudes; she will be analyzing those data soon and providing recommendations to local conservation practitioners so that they can improve their relationships with Amish farmers in the area and increase their uptake of conservation practices. She also analyzed data and wrote two papers on nutrient management decision-making and conservation practices among agricultural landowners (absentee) and producers in Indiana. She is also in the process of analyzing pre-post social indicator survey data from two watersheds in Indiana; this will provide a sense of whether local water conservation outreach efforts were effective among both agricultural and urban/lake residents. She has collaborated extensively with Linda Prokopy and Nick Babin on some of these efforts. M. Burbach, K. Floress, and E. Kaufman collaborated on research showing that water-related leadership development programs should be theory based and provide assessment, challenge, and support; and offer a variety of developmental experiences and the opportunity to learn from experience. E. Kaufman continued to explore eco-leadership as a mechanism and condition for translating catalysts into action. Observed relationships between community groups’ leadership style, group cohesion, and community project engagement. Significant factors included idealized attributes and inspirational motivation.

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Impact Statements

8. In Iowa, government, private sector, and NGO agricultural stakeholders have used findings from research conducted by J. Arbuckle and LW Morton to guide outreach to farmers and agricultural advisers associated with the implementation of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a statewide effort to reduce Iowa’s nutrient loss from agriculture by 45 percent.