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Participants

Arbuckle, Jr., J. Gordon (Arbuckle@iastate.edu) – Iowa State University; Burbach, Mark E. (mburbach1@unl.edu) – University of Nebraska; Church, Sarah (church9@purdue.edu) – Purdue University; Cook, Chad (chad.cook@uwex.edu) - University of Wisconsin-Extension; Cossman, Ronald (rcossman@ssrc.msstate.edu) - Mississippi State University; 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; Haigh, Tonya (thaigh2@unl.edu) - National Drought Mitigation Center; Hamilton, Christina (christina.hamilton@wisc.edu), - North Central States NIMSS System Administrator; Jackson-Smith, Douglas (jackson-smith.1@osu.edu) – The Ohio State University; Knutson, Cody L (cknutson1@unl.edu) – University of Nebraska; Murdock, Evan (eamurdock@wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin; Prokopy, Linda S. (lprokopy@purdue.edu) – Purdue University; Ranjan, Pranay (ranjanp@purdue.edu) – Purdue University; Rissman, Adena (adena.rissman@wisc.edu) – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Shepard, Jen (shepa148@umn.edu) - University of Minnesota; Ulrich-Schad, Jessica (jessica.schad@sdstate.edu) – South Dakota State University; Wardropper, Chloe (wardropper@wisc.edu)- Purdue University; Wu, Zhixuan (zwu223@wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin

Brief Summary of Minutes

Wednesday May 31, 2017

18:30 Evening social gathering at the UW-M union terrace

Thursday June 1

8:15  Welcome; review agenda J Arbuckle, Chair NC1190

8:30  Introductions and individual updates (each person give a brief introduction and update on their activities in the past year related to NC1190)

10:15  Break

10:30

• Selection of NC1190 Secretary for 2018.




• Discussion of governance structure and roles led by J. Arbuckle and Linda Prokopy. Linda Prokopy noted the need to elect a secretary for 2017-18. Doug Jackson Smith mentioned as possibility and he agreed to be secretary of NC1190 for 2017-18. Stephen Gasteyer volunteered to be NC1190 Secretary for 2018-19. NC1190 2018 meeting will be in Nebraska (Burbach, Vice-chair)

• Linda Prokopy asked to amend agenda to add discuss publishing social science. Participants agreed to add this to the agenda. Added to Friday agenda.

• Chris Hamilton – plug for Impact Writing ESCOP, 1-2 page impact statements from annual reports – impacts that are collaborative across states good outcomes, value of multi-state projects, from NIMMS, North Central Regional Association, http://ncra.info/

• Linda Prokopy led review of NIMMS Appendix E list and NC1190 list-serve. Update NIMMS with 5-year renewal.

10:30  Break

10:45  Review goals from 2016 meeting; report progress on goals and project. Arbuckle led review of projects:

• Synthesis paper




• Status: Abandoned for now, orphaned

• Groundwater:




• Statues: New grants (AFRI), small group breakout 2017

• Adaptation:




• Status: Abandoned, breakout that did not result in paper idea

• Food-Energy-Water Nexus




• Status: Kristin Floress INFEWS grant funded! Many not funded, 6 pending

• Leveraging, large-scale, high-profile events for creating change (aka Katrina)




• Status: Continue to consider

• Rural/urban divide: Adena Rissman leads paper




• Status: Shift from comparative case study to a policy piece. Adena to lead small breakout group discussion tomorrow

• Book!




• Status: All chapters except 2 drafted, editors will be sending comments to authors, Revised drafts due Aug., 4, 2017. USFS Research station peer-review process will begin fall 2017. It will be a beautiful GTR.

• Attitude/behavior split disconnect




• Status: Manuscript submitted.

• Schneider and Ingraham policy tools




• Status: Still kicking, kicked to next year

• Nutrient reduction strategy paper.




• Opportunities for partnership with other states engaged in nutrient reduction strategy work. How have state nutrient reduction strategies in each state been developed, evolved, and catalyzed new partnerships? Common visions have been developed between ag and environmental groups where there had been historic distrust. Wes Berger review of plans, preparing White paper. Richard Ingram. Ken to request report.


• Status: Moving forward, small group breakout. Doug will lead

New Ideas

• Data privacy issues




• Adena published paper on data accessibility. Tensions, politics

• Structural issues and agricultural supply chains. Macro drivers. Land tenure changes, specialization, resource governance structures, water especially.




• Conceptual paper, laying out dimensions, of “structure”?


• Cohesive framework for data collection.


• Lay foundations for potential proposal, “Bacon, Buns, and Brussel Sprouts”


• Develop issues-specific paper topics (e.g. groundwater, water quality)


• Doug, Stephen, J., Chloe, Tonya, Mae, Jessica, Mark, Kristin, Pranay, Linda, Kristin (?)




• Status: Small breakout groups today.

Projects that don’t have a lead now

• Metadata of case studies




• Lead: Asked Kristin if she wants to do it


• Check back next year

New Topics

• Documentation of social science informing policy and programs. Response to Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation articles stating that social science is absent. Kristin Floress led discussion about responding to these articles saying that social science is being utilized in water management.




• Response paper? Comment?


• Papers will be sent to group and members will consider whether to get something going

• Performance measure construction and reporting.




• Idea: Convene social scientists and modelers, discuss what indicators should be


• Performance vs. impacts? Problematization of.


• Issue-focused (e.g., algae blooms)?


• SESYNC proposal? Workshop or medium-term project. Western Lake Erie? Canada and US researchers.

12:00  Lunch

Discussion about time for next year‘s meeting. Linda Prokopy and Mark Burbach noted NC1190 members not in attendance have asked to consider moving the annual meeting to later in June. Agreed on June 12^th & 13^th 2018.

Discussion – NC1190 Impact Statement by Sara Delheimer. Linda Prokopy will send response with modifications.

12:45  Break out sessions of small groups to outline projects/goals/methods/approaches/funding opportunities

• Nutrient Reduction Strategies




• Ways of gathering information to investigate how the HTF mandated catalyzed change in Mississippi main stem states,


• Build on Wes Burger work


• Short research note to characterize catalyst of Gulf Hypoxia Task Force mandate.

• Groundwater




• Look at how groundwater regulations differ across states, different governance structures, develop a typology of regulations

14:30  Break

14:45  Field Trip – Pheasant Branch Conservancy -- stakeholder engagement and university roles.

18:00  Dinner at Marshall Park Picnic Area overlooking Lake Mendota

Friday June 2

Note:  NC1190 members attending the Applied Research Symposium may choose to participate in all or some of the Friday schedule for both events

8:00  Breakfast

8:30  Re-convene in large group to discuss paper ideas, grant opportunities, project work, and other follow up.

• Added agenda item- Discussion of professional development/networking as impact of NC1190 (Linda Prokopy)




• Better capture impacts of NC1190

• Publishing Social Science. Discussion of possible outlets for disseminating social science research and lack of social science editors at major journals.




• E.g. Society & Natural Resources, Water Science, Journal of Soil & Water Conservation, JAWRA.


• Conversation with journal editors – what looking for, what can social sciences do to be attractive to journals.


• Arbuckle will draft letter to the editor of Journal of Environmental Quality and Water Resources Research encouraging consideration of publishing more social science research and appointment of associate editors with social science backgrounds.

• Structural Dimensions of Water Quality in the Cornbelt.




• Chloe Wardropper created Google Drive for sharing.


• Missing key expertise in our group, e.g. economics, political science.


• Outline of paper in one month.


• Stephen can take initiative with Doug and Linda.


• See Google Drive for additional notes.

• Rural-Urban




• Adena Rissman led discussion of draft article, target audience Society & Natural Resources


• See Google Drive for draft article and additional notes

• Social Science & Modeling, possible SESYNC proposal




• Identify “triads” of researchers that work on watershed models of behaviors and resources 




• E.g. issues of scale/outcome indicators, cm pixel for vegetation vs all farmers apply X amount of fertilizer across the watershed.




• Kick to next year’s agenda

• Arbuckle and team thanked Adena for all she did to organize and plan the NC1190 meeting

• Linda Prokopy acknowledged J. Arbuckle’s leadership and team thanked J. for his service as 2016-17 Chair.

• Officially Adjourned 11:30

11:45  Box Lunch

Note: The Applied Research Symposium continues Friday afternoon and Saturday.

Accomplishments

<p><strong>Outcomes</strong></p><br /> <p>Program evaluation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy by Dr. Burbach showed that seventy-nine alumni have demonstrated a statistically significant increase in leadership abilities, champion of innovation behaviors, civic capacity, entrepreneurialism, and water issues awareness and engagement from both the their own and their raters&rsquo; perspectives. Feedback from Academy alumni demonstrates that they are positioning themselves to be catalysts of change in water issues at local, state, regional, national, and even international levels. A research study found that nudging for empathy in conjunction with financial incentives has a statistically and economically significant and positive impact on conservation behavior.</p><br /> <p>Increased knowledge about understanding the systems within which farmers work to address water quality concerns.</p><br /> <p>Sarah Church and Linda Prokopy co-authored a paper published in Land Use Policy (The influence of social criteria in mobilizing watershed conservation efforts: A case study of a successful watershed in the U.S. Midwest) that built off a previous NC1190 developed paper: Prokopy, L. S., Mullendore, N., Brasier, K., &amp; Floress, K. (2014). A typology of catalyst events for collaborative watershed management in the United States. Society &amp; Natural Resources, 27(11), 1177-1191. Results of our watershed evaluation have been presented at conferences and through webinars. Sarah Church has spoken with two reporters, who were writing for agricultural trade publications, about the social science evaluation.</p><br /> <p>The Useful to Usable (U2U) project led by Dr. Prokopy developed five decision support tools to help farmers in the Midwestern U.S. adapt to an increasingly variable climate.&nbsp; These tools have been used to support decisions on over 15.5 million acres in the Midwestern U.S. Thirty-five percent of advisors and 34% of farmers surveyed had heard of at least one U2U tool.</p><br /> <p>Local stakeholders in the Yahara Watershed of southern Wisconsin gained knowledge of the importance of water resources and the policy preferences of local residents when we (Rissman et al.) presented household survey results to a meeting of over 50 local stakeholders.</p><br /> <p>Dane County established a new water quality and agriculture committee and its call drew on findings from our (Rissman et al.) research.</p><br /> <p>Project outcomes have included change in knowledge and action among natural resource professionals at the local, regional and national level (Davenport). The social science studies have informed decision makers about the diverse audiences they serve, in particular what drives and constrains conservation action and public engagement in water resource management. Recommendations and technical assistance provided have guided program development, staff training, policy.</p><br /> <p>Development and assessment of methods to gather systematic social science data on water issues using the Drop-off/Pick-up methodology (Jackson-Smith).</p><br /> <p>Improved understanding of ways in which social characteristics interact with geographic settings to shape patterns of public perceptions and concerns about water issues (Jackson-Smith).</p><br /> <p>Research conducted through the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll and the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy Farmer Survey has led to improved knowledge of farmers' awareness of and attitudes toward the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy and has helped to measure progress toward positive changes in knowledge, awareness, and behavior that lead to improvements in nutrient loss management (Arbuckle).</p><br /> <p>Relationships established through NC1190 networking have led to several multi-state grant proposal submissions. In 2016, Dr. Mae Davenport of University of Minnesota and Dr. J. Arbuckle of Iowa State University collaborated on a USDA NIFA-AFRI proposal titled "Understanding and Building Capacity to Address Changing Water Availability in the Upper Corn Belt: that was funded at $458,000. Also in 2016, Dr. J. Arbuckle and Dr. Linda Prokopy collaborated on an invited proposal titled "Assessing Barriers to Adopting Conservation Practices" to the Walton Family Foundation that was funded at $80,000. These collaborations would not have taken place had it not been for NC1190's fostering of collaborative projects.</p><br /> <p><strong>Outputs (Websites)</strong></p><br /> <p>Building Climate Readiness on Minnesota&rsquo;s North Shore&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.northshoreclimate.com">www.northshoreclimate.com</a></p><br /> <p>Center for Changing Landscapes&nbsp; <a href="http://www.changinglandscapes.umn.edu">www.changinglandscapes.umn.edu</a></p><br /> <p>Gasteyer Faculty Website, <a href="http://sociology.msu.edu/faculty-and-staff/tenure_stream_faculty_directory/stephen-gasteyer">http://sociology.msu.edu/faculty-and-staff/tenure_stream_faculty_directory/stephen-gasteyer</a></p><br /> <p>Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, <a href="http://waterleadersacademy.org/">http://waterleadersacademy.org/</a></p><br /> <p>Ohio Watershed Network, <a href="https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/">https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/</a></p><br /> <p>Water Sustainability and Climate Project, <a>https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/yahara2070</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Outputs (Presentations)</strong></p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. G. Social science research on farmers&rsquo; perspectives on nutrient loss reduction informing collaborative action to improve water quality. SWCS Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, July 27, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. G. Social science research on Iowa farmers&rsquo; nutrient management perspectives informing collaborative action for improved water quality. ISSRM Annual Conference, Houghton, MI, June 23, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. G. How understanding farmers&rsquo; perspectives on nutrient management practices can inform collaborative action to improve water quality. AESS Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. Iowa farmers&rsquo; perspectives on soil health: Predictors of knowledge and action. 2017 Soil Health Conference, Ames, IA, February 17, 2017.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. Monarch butterflies and Iowa agriculture: Are farmers willing to lend a hand? Human Dimensions of Monarch Conservation Workshop. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 23, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. Farmers&rsquo; perspectives on agriculture and water quality. 4R PLUS Research Review, 4R PLUS Executive Team Meeting. FFA Enrichment Center, Ankeny, Iowa, August 15, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. Understanding farmer perspectives on climate change to inform engagement strategies for adaptation (and mitigation?). Natural Resources Conservation Service Bi-National (Mexico-US) Climate Change Meeting. Video Teleconference, July 18, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Czap, H. J., Czap, N. V., Burbach, M. E., &amp; Banerjee, S<em>. </em>Empathy conservation: Expanding laboratory experiments into the field. SABE/IAREP 2016 International Conference, Wageningen, the Netherlands, July 10, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Bonnell, J. E. Watershed leadership for collaboration and civic engagement. North Central Region Water Network Conference, Lincoln, NE, March 21, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E., &amp; Kunert, S. J. The impact of place attachment on farmer land succession planning: A mixed methods Study. 22^nd International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Houghton, MI, June 24, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E. Full-Range Leadership for leaders in the water arena<em>. </em>Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Water Leaders Academy, Lincoln, NE, January 26, 2017.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E. Personal empowerment &ndash; Continuing to develop your leadership capacity<em>.</em> Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, Nebraska City, NE, November 17, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E. Tapping into your motivation to serve and inspiring others in their service. Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, Nebraska City, NE, November 17, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Burbaugh, B. J., &amp; Kaufman, E. K. Leadership development approaches that impact social capital capacity. National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals Conference, Burlington, VT, June 27, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Gasteyer, S., Carrera, J., Houser, M., &amp; Lai, J. Toward a political ecology of algae: From metabolic rift to techno-anatomic response.&nbsp; Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, March 28-31, 2017.</p><br /> <p>Gasteyer, S. 2016. What reactions have Michigan communities had to wood energy? Heating the Midwest Conference and Exhibition, Island Resort and Casino, Harris, Michigan, October 12, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Jackson-Smith, D., Ewing, S., Jones, C., &amp; Sigler, A. The road less travelled: Assessing the impacts of in-depth farmer participation in research on nitrate pollution. Presentation at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada, August 7-10, 2016.</p><br /> <p>Nowatzke, L., Arbuckle, J., Lee, D., Zhu, Z. Iowa nutrient reduction strategy farmer survey: Selected results from 2015 and 2016. Iowa Water Conference, Ames, IA, March 23, 2017.</p><br /> <p>Perry, V., Davenport, M.A., &amp; Host, G. (2016). We think we can? Collective efficacy and community Perspectives on climate, extreme weather, and water management in Minnesota's Lake Superior Basin. Minnesota Water Resources Conference, October 18-19, 2016, St. Paul, MN.</p><br /> <p>Ribaudo, M., E. Marshall, M. Aillery, and S. Malcolm.&nbsp; 2016. Reducing the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico:&nbsp; Assessing the Costs to Agriculture. Selected paper at AAEA annual meeting, Boston, MA, July 31^st August 2.</p><br /> <p>Rissman, Adena R. Public support for water, agriculture, and water quality policies. Water@UW. May, 2017. Madison, WI</p><br /> <p>Tucker, B., Gasteyer, S., &amp; Carrera, J. Framing water justice movements: Service and activists responses to water shut offs in Detroit and Flint, Michigan.&nbsp; North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 31-April 1, 2017.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Prokopy, L. S., Arbuckle, J., Floress, K., Church, S. P., Ranjan, P., Singh, A., Barmblett, J., Flahive, K., &amp; McDonald, M. Meta-review of barriers and motivations for farmers to adopt conservation practices. 72^nd Soil and Water Conservation Society International Annual Conference. Madison, WI. July 30-August 2, 2017.</p><br /> <p>Ulrich-Schad, J. D., Brock, C., &amp; Prokopy, L. We want to be good stewards of our land: Perceptions and Barriers to Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices among Amish Farmers. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting; Toronto, August 16-19, 2016.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Publications

<p>Arbuckle, J. G., Tyndall, J. C., Morton, L. W., &amp; Hobbs, J. (forthcoming). Climate change typologies and audience segmentation among Corn Belt farmers. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.</em></p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. G. (2017). <em>Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: 2016 summary report</em>. Extension Report SOC3081. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. G. (2016). <em>Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: 2015 summary report</em>. Extension Report PM3075. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension.</p><br /> <p>Arbuckle, J. (2016). <em>STRIPS cooperator follow-on survey: 2015 results</em>. Technical Report No. 1042. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension Sociology.</p><br /> <p>Armstrong, A. &amp; Jackson-Smith, D. (forthcoming). Connections and collaborations of local water management organizations of Utah. <em>Society and Natural Resources</em>.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E., &amp; Reimers-Hild, C. (accepted). Developing water leaders as catalyst for change: The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy. In K. Floress, K., L. S. Prokopy, &amp; M. E. Burbach (Eds.), <em>Catalyzing change in water resource management through social science</em>, (pp. xx). General Technical Report NRS-GTR-xx-x. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.</p><br /> <p>Burbach, M. E., &amp; Reimers-Hild, C. (2017). <em>2016 Nebraska Water Leaders Academy &ndash; Final report</em>. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Open-File Report 151.</p><br /> <p>Bussey, J., Davenport, M. A., Emery, M., &amp; Carroll, C. (2016). "A lot of it comes from the heart": The nature and integration of ecological knowledge in tribal and non-tribal forest management. <em>Journal of Forestry, 114</em>(2), 97-107, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.14-130.</p><br /> <p>Church, S. P., &amp; Prokopy, L. S. (2017). The influence of social criteria in mobilizing watershed conservation efforts: A case study of a successful watershed in the U.S. Midwest. <em>Land Use Policy, 61</em>, 353-367.</p><br /> <p>Czap, H. J., Czap, N. V., Lynne, G. D., &amp; Burbach, M. E. (2016). Farm Bill 2014: An experimental investigation of conservation compliance. <em>Journal of Sustainable Development, 9</em>(3), 23-38.</p><br /> <p>Davenport, M. A., Perry, V. Pradhananga, A., &amp; Shepard, J. (2016). <em>Community capacity for stormwater management: A social science assessment in three Twin Cities Metro Area watersheds</em>. St. Paul, MN: Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. 126 pp.</p><br /> <p>Gasteyer, S. P., Lai, J., Tucker, B., Carrera, J., &amp; Moss, J. (2016). Basics inequality: Race and access to complete plumbing facilities in the United States. <em>Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race, 13</em>(2), 305-25.</p><br /> <p>Kaufman, E. K., Kennedy, R. E., &amp; Cletzer, D. A. (accepted). Understanding the nature of eco-leadership. In K. Floress, K., L. S. Prokopy, &amp; M. E. Burbach (Eds.), <em>Catalyzing change in water resource management through social science.</em> General Technical Report NRS-GTR-xx-x. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.</p><br /> <p>Lynne, G. D., Czap, N. V., Czap, H. J., &amp; Burbach, M.E. (2016). A theoretical foundation for empathy conservation: Toward avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons. <em>Review of Behavioral Economics, 3, </em>243-279.</p><br /> <p>Mase, A, S., Gramig, B., &amp; Prokopy, L.S. (2017). Climate Change Beliefs, Risk Perceptions, and Adaptation Behavior among Midwestern U.S. Crop Farmers. <em>Climate Risk Management, 15</em>, 8-17.</p><br /> <p>Morton, L. W., Benning, J., McGuire, J., Gonzalez-Ramirz, M. J., Ingels, C., Arbuckle, J. G. &amp; Kling C. L. (2016). <em>Practices and timing of nutrient reduction strategies</em>. Sociology Technical Report 1044. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.</p><br /> <p>Morton, L.W., McGuire, J., &amp; Cast, A. (2017). A good farmer pays attention to the weather. <em>Climate Risk Management, 15</em>, 18-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2016.09.002</p><br /> <p>Morton, L. W., &amp; K. R. Olson. (2016). St. Johns Levee and Drainage District attempt to mitigate internal flooding. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 71</em>(4), 91A-97A.</p><br /> <p>Morton, L. W., Roesch-McNally, G., Wilke, A. (2017). Upper Midwest Farmer Perceptions: Too Much Uncertainty about Impacts of Climate Change to Justify Changing Current Agricultural Practices. Sustainable Corn issue. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 72</em>(3), 215-225.</p><br /> <p>Mosheim, R., &amp; Ribaudo, M. (2017). Costs of nitrogen runoff and rural Water utilities: A shadow cost approach. <em>Land Economics,</em> <em>93</em>(1), 12-39.</p><br /> <p>Nelson, P., Davenport, M. A., &amp; Kuphal, T. (2017). <em>Inspiring action for nonpoint source pollution: A manual for water resource protection</em>. St. Paul, MN: Freshwater Society publication. https://freshwater.org/inspiring-action/</p><br /> <p>Nowatzke, L., &amp; Arbuckle, J. (2016). <em>Iowa farmers and the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy: 2015 survey results</em>. Extension Report SOC3078. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension.</p><br /> <p>Olson, B. &amp; Davenport, M. A. (In press). An inductive model of farmer conservation decision making for nitrogen management. <em>Landscape Journal</em>.</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. O., Al-Kaisi, M., Lal, R. &amp; Morton, L. W. (2017). Soil ecosystem services and intensified cropping systems. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 72</em>(3), 64A-69A</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2017). Sedimentation, navigation, and agriculture on the lower Missouri River. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 72</em>(4), 80A-86A.</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2017). Chicago&rsquo;s 132-year effort to provide safe drinking water. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 72</em>(2), 19A-26A.</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2016). Mississippi River threatens to make Dogtooth Bend peninsula in Illinois an island. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 71</em>(6),140A-146A.</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2016). Agricultural Lands: Flooding and Levee Breaches. In R. Lal (Ed), <em>Encyclopedia of Soil Science</em>, 3^rd Ed., (pp. 65-71). Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press. doi: 10.1081/E-ESS3-120053228&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2016) Managing Mississippi and Ohio River Landscapes Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society.http://www.swcs.org/en/publications/managing_mississippi_and_ohio_river_landscapes/</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., &amp; Morton, L. W., Speidel, D. (2016). Little River Drainage District conversion of the Big Swamp to fertile agricultural land. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 71</em>(2), 37A-43A.</p><br /> <p>Olson, K. R., Morton, L.W., &amp; Speidel, D. (2016). Missouri Ozark Plateau headwaters diversion engineering feat. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 71</em>(1), 13A-19A.</p><br /> <p>Pradhananga, A., Davenport, M. A., Fulton, D. C., Maruyama, G. M., &amp; Current, D. (2017). An integrated moral obligation model for landowner conservation norms. <em>Society and Natural Resources, 30</em>(2), 212-227.</p><br /> <p>Roesch-McNally, G., Basche, A., Arbuckle, J., Tyndall, J., Miguez, F., Bowman, T., &amp; Clay, R. (2017). The trouble with cover crops: Farmers experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption. <em>Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems,</em> 1-12. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000096</p><br /> <p>Roesch-McNally, G. E., Arbuckle, J. G., &amp; Tyndall, J. C. (2016). What would farmers do? Adaptation intentions under a Corn Belt climate change scenario. <em>Agriculture and Human Values, 34, </em>333-346<em>.</em> doi: 10.1007/s10460-016-9719-y.</p><br /> <p>Ulrich-Schad, J. D., de Jalon, S. G., Prokopy, L. S., Babin, N., &amp; Pape, A. (accepted). Measuring and Understanding Agricultural Producers Adoption of Nutrient Best Management Practices.&nbsp; <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>.</p><br /> <p>Wilke, A., &amp; Morton, L. W. (2017). Analog years: Connecting climate science and agricultural tradition to better manage landscapes of the future. <em>Climate Risk Management, 15</em>, 32-44&nbsp; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2016.10.001</p>

Impact Statements

1. Toman, Eric, Theresa Groth, and J. Gordon Arbuckle. Farmer to non-farmer: the role of farmer identity on conservation. $20,309. North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. October, 2016 – August, 2018.

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Participants

Brasier, Kathy (kbrasier@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University
Burbach, Mark E. (mburbach1@unl.edu) – University of Nebraska
Church, Sarah (church9@purdue.edu) – Purdue University
Eaton, Weston (wme107@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University
Gasteyer, Stephen (gasteyer@msu.edu) – Michigan State University
Gramig, Benjamin (bgramig@illinois.edu) – University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
Haigh, Tonya (thaigh2@unl.edu) - National Drought Mitigation Center
Jackson-Smith, Douglas (jackson-smith.1@osu.edu) – The Ohio State University
Prokopy, Linda S. (lprokopy@purdue.edu) – Purdue University
Rissman, Adena (adena.rissman@wisc.edu) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Usher, Emily (eusher@purdue.edu) – Purdue University.
Wallander, Steven (swallender@ers.usda.gov) – USDA Economic Research Service

Brief Summary of Minutes

Monday, June 11 (travel day)

7:00 pm     Committee Dinner at Mahoney State Park Lodge

Tuesday, June 12

7:00           Breakfast, Mahoney State Park Lodge

8:00           Welcome, reconnections; review agenda Adena Rissman, Chair NC1190

8:15           Introductions and individual updates (each person gave a brief introduction and update on activities in the past year related to NC1190)

10:30         Break

10:45         Continued individual updates

11:45         Break

12:00         Working Lunch – Mahoney State Park

 Selection of NC1190 Secretary for 2018.

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  • Stephen Gasteyer nominated and elected unanimously to be NC1190 Secretary for 2018-19. NC1190 2019 meeting will be in Wooster, Ohio (Jackson-Smith, Vice-chair)
  
  
  
  

 Reviewed Goals from 2017 meeting; discussed progress on various commitments and projects;

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  • Synthesis paper (still inactive)
  
  
  • Groundwater
    
    
    
    • Small breakout group last year
    
    
    • Active interest among attendees: Stephen G, Tonya, Steven W, Ben
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Adaptation (inactive for now)
  
  
  • INFEWS
    
    
    
    • Last year: at least 1 funded; others pending this year
    
    
    • Not clear interest in raising this up as priority for NC1190 this year (Doug and Ben are on projects; Linda is on proposals going in this year)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Leveraging large scale events for creating change
    
    
    
    • status: continue to consider
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Rural / Urban divide
    
    
    
    • Adena Rissman still willing to lead paper; some progress last fall
    
    
    • Focus: mechanisms by which water quality influences urban-rural relationships. Good intro and outline of issues already on dropbox folder
    
    
    • Will continue to work on this (discuss this afternoon)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Book (MARK) is moving forward – have 7 chapters; going through edits; final versions due by October; highlight how social science used in water management; 2019 Publication date as USDA USFS General Technical Report; targeted at practitioners and undergraduates
  
  
  • Attitude-behavior split / disconnect (Prokopy, Burbach, Ribaudo, others)
    
    
    
    • Status – manuscript submitted to LUP; accepted!
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Schneider/Ingram policy tools
    
    
    
    • Possibly keep alive (but of interest to many who are not at this year’s meeting); not discussed at this meeting
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Nutrient Reduction Strategy paper – Doug volunteered to lead last year
    
    
    
    • Doug hired student last summer; did interviews, media analysis in Ohio
    
    
    • Model exists that could be extended to other states
    
    
    • Discuss later today
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Data privacy issues / data info and disclosure (Adena)
    
    
    
    • New restrictions on access to public data (e.g., CRP participation)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Performance metrics; Performance measures / reporting (SESYNC proposal?) – Adena; Kathy
    
    
    
    • Last year’s Idea: Convene social scientists and modelers, discuss what indicators should be; Performance vs. impacts? Issue-focused (e.g., algae blooms)?
    
    
    • Adena still interested; connections to Kathy, Stephen G, Doug
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Metadata / case studies (ask Kristin Flores if she wants to revive)
  
  
  • Structural issues in ag supply chain as drivers/constraints of conservation behavior
  
  
  • Last year: Conceptual paper, laying out dimensions, of structure?
  
  
  • Cohesive framework for data collection; develop issues-specific paper topics (e.g. groundwater, water quality)
  
  
  • Doug, Stephen, J., Chloe, Tonya, Mae, Jessica, Mark, Kristin, Pranay, Linda, Kristin (?)
  
  
  • Documentation of impact of social science on conservation policies (more comes from biodiversity world)
  
  
  
  


• Discussed possible new topics for discussion this year
  
  
  
  • Farmer engagement; different models and forms of partnerships (Doug)
    
    
    
    • Farmer engagement & participation as part of water quality policy/programs
    
    
    • Doug, Mark, Wes, Sarah, Emily, Kathy, Linda, Tonya, Adena
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Minimizing social science research burdens (Kathy) on
    
    
    
    • Farmers; (coordination of research efforts; compensation for farmer time (in recognition of self-employment status) precedent, budget, equity
    
    
    • Develop review and set of guidelines and suggestions
    
    
    • Kathy, Mark, Wes, Tonya, Steven
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

1:30        Break

1:35        Full group in-depth discussion of key topics 

1. Hypoxia Task Force Mandate & response (led by Doug Jackson-Smith)
   
   
   
   • Key question – how does the process of adapting/responding to a common mandate differ across states? (for a national environmental problem/mandate catalyst)
   
   
   • How has it deflected the trajectory & scope of the state’s effort
   
   
   • Explaining variation using characteristics of states – measurable attributes
     
     
     
     • who participated in process
     
     
     • characteristics of the farm sector; commodity mix
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • Doug hired a student who did structured interviews and wrote short report in summer 2017. Desire to replicate OH work done in 2017 to other states – interest?
     
     
     
     • Last year interest from: Stephen G (MI), Doug JS, Adena (WI); J Arbuckle (IA); Linda, Sarah (IN); Ben (IL)
     
     
     • Connects to work done by Berger and Ingram in connection with SERA 46
     
     
     • Needed reach out to remaining states to test waters
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • ACTION: Doug J-S will distribute revised protocol to rest of group and nail down plans
     
     
     
     • Finalize baseline research design/instruments
     
     
     • Circulate IRB materials
     
     
     • Confirm participation in NC1190 states
     
     
     • Solicit participation from other MRB states
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

 

2. GROUNDWATER issues subgroup (Gasteyer/Gramig led)
   
   
   
   • As groundwater becomes a bigger issue in upper Midwest/eastern corn belt (traditionally rainfed states) – lessons from other regions that can be brought to bear?
   
   
   • Interest in management study – Stephen Gasteyer
     
     
     
     • What are institutions and governance arrangements (and social/cultural practices) that allow for groundwater management?
     
     
     • Survey management structures – look at position of each state to address the challenges that might be coming
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • ERS – update from Steven Wallander
     
     
     
     • looking into funding national survey of irrigation and groundwater districts (build into farm and ranch irrigation survey); Get info on their economics; marginal costs; cost to producers; factors that shape behaviors
     
     
     • Also good to include info from USGS studies of aquifer recharge/status; upper Midwest aquifers
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • Open discussion about the degree to which GW quantity (and quality) issues are being discussed in the state
   
   
   • ACTION: Proposal suggestion (Stephen Gasteyer)
     
     
     
     • Dropbox set up last year – need to update/add (Tonya, Stephen G will do)
     
     
     • Map the state-by-state policy context
     
     
     • Take North Central states and develop a protocol/instrument to capture information from documents and key informants to characterize status of GW management structure; governance arrangements and policies/programs
     
     
     • To what extent is quality a consideration? If so – what was catalyst
     
     
     • Invite Matt Sanderson
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

3:00           Break & Travel to Platte River

3:30           Walking tour and observation tower visit; discussion of regional WQ issues & challenges

7:00           Picnic at Platte River State Park

8:30           Return to Mahoney State Park

 

Wednesday, June 13

7:00           Breakfast Mahoney State Park Lodge

8:00           Re-convene to discuss paper ideas, grant opportunities, and project work.

 

3. Urban-Rural Relationships paper (Adena Rissman)
   
   
   
   • Adena shared draft MS with group (started last summer; somewhat revised)
   
   
   • Tentative title: WQ improvement efforts shape urban-rural relationships
     
     
     
     • Conceptual framework for types of linkages; Lit review; Policy by policy type – observations about the effects of these policy approaches on relationships; Highlight examples from real world
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • Google doc set up last year has material related to filling the cells on the table (combos of policies * relationship types):
   
   
   • Discussed potential for urban policies that might shape rural perceptions (to balance focus on nonpoint WQ programs/policies and their impacts on urban perceptions)
   
   
   • Focus should be on wide range of impacts that relate to the relationships between rural/urban
   
   
   • Organizing principles/outline for paper?
     
     
     
     • Stick to policy categories – but note projects can include a range of approaches and evolve through time
     
     
     • Think about target audience for paper – who would likely use this advice in their work? Community development; extension?
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • Next steps – conference call to reengage the outline/draft and decide on division of labor; see google doc and emailed copy of latest draft as a guide
   
   
   • Draft list of folks involved:
     
     
     
     • Present: Rissman, Church
     
     
     • From last year (not present): Arbuckle, Floress, Gasteyer, Ulrich-Schad, Wardropper
     
     
     • Add Burbach and Eaton (sermons/norms)
     
     
     • Doug J-S interested, but not likely to play strong role 
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

4. Farmer Participation in Research / Outreach (led by Doug Jackson-Smith)
   
   
   
   • Doug led discussion of possible coordinated project to explore how farmers in the region are being engaged in research and modeling relative to water quality issues (through on-farm research, participatory modeling, demonstration farms, etc.). Interested in assessing the diversity of approaches and their impacts on farmers (and scientists)
   
   
   • FOCUS: Drive towards mini-proposal to underwrite some baseline research
   
   
   • Goal
     
     
     
     • Develop conceptual typology of approaches and outcomes
     
     
     • Critically evaluate examples of engaged/participatory approaches
       
       
       
       • Edge-of-Field projects (inventory by state?)
       
       
       • On-farm research types
       
       
       • Farmer networks
       
       
       • Team suggested examples of projects for case studies.
       
       
       
       
     
     
     • Next steps
       
       
       
       • Doug will draft a vision document that can be circulated to group – highlight issue, potential research questions
       
       
       • Pitch proposal to Walton foundation to lay groundwork for larger study/proposal to USDA/NSF/AES or university seed grant proposals
       
       
       • Consider finding funds from our NC1190 allocations to help take first steps 
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

10:00         Break

5. Performance measurement (led by Adena Rissman)
   
   
   
   • Group discussed possible project/paper idea around the ways in which ‘performance’ is assessed and measured in research, models, and policy. Interesting to see the impact of how outcomes are defined and measured affects the trajectory of water quality projects.
   
   
   • Key questions:
     
     
     
     • Why do we track the things we do?
     
     
     • Internal needs vs. external audience targets
     
     
     • Diff between performance measurement and evaluation
       
       
       
       • Performance typically has no control, causal mechanisms
       
       
       • Lit from public policy scholarship
       
       
       
       
     
     
     • Wes suggested use of interesting conceptual foundation in Larry Busch’s work on Standards (where they come from, social/economic impacts)
     
     
     • A lot going on in water quality arena that involves quantification of outcomes
     
     
     • Examples of performance metrics include
       
       
       
       • Things that can be measured through models, actual measurements and observations, and the disconnections between the two
       
       
       • What are potential impacts of moving from model-based approach to actual performance measurements
       
       
       • Other examples = pay for performance projects; flexibility with accountability
       
       
       
       
     
     
     • Compare farmers concerns about data across different platforms and purposes
     
     
     • Examples of efforts to use private sector as ‘safe zone’ 3^rd party
     
     
     • TARGET/ACTION PLAN
       
       
       
       • Write proposal to AFRI social implications of new science and technologies
       
       
       • NSF / STS or CNH project? 
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

6. FARMER RESEARCH FATIGUE (led by Kathy Brasier)
   
   
   
   • Kathy Brasier introduced the idea – interested in studying the widely accepted idea that farmers are getting ‘research fatigue’ and how it might affect social science research in this arena; grows out of separate project that is working on research subject fatigue in energy boomtowns.
   
   
   • Steven Wallander noted how the USDA/NASS/ERS works to minimize burden by removing people from future samples who were involved in previous work
   
   
   • We discussed topics for potential research note – focused on social science research with farmers about water quality
     
     
     
     • How do we know that this is a problem?
     
     
     • In what ways is it a problem? What concerns does it raise?
     
     
     • Why is it happening?
     
     
     • What are opportunities to address / minimize burden?
     
     
     
     
   
   
   • ACTION ITEM
     
     
     
     • Target draft of Research note – Kathy Brasier
     
     
     • Possible outlets
       
       
       
       • SNR commentary/research note/policy piece?
       
       
       • JSWC commentary/section A
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   

 11:50         Final business

 Plans for next year’s meeting

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  • Wooster OH (weeks of June 17^th or 24^th)
  
  
  • Fly into Cleveland or Akron/Canton and rent a car (45-60 minute drive)
  
  
  • Meet at OARDC campus; field trip ideas could include trip to Amish Country; Sugarcreek water quality trading program; area parks
  
  
  
  

• Consider organizing conference special sessions; Pre-meeting workshops ; engagement
  
  
  
  • ISSRM 2019 – Oshkosh June 1-6, 2019
  
  
  • SWCS 2019 – Pittsburg July 28–31, 2019
  
  
  
  

 Noon         Adjourn

Accomplishments

<p><strong>Accomplishments 2017/2018 Project Year</strong><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p><br /> <p><strong><em>Outcomes</em></strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Through the survey and interview research conducted by Dr. Schad over the past year, South Dakota academics and practitioners have gained a better understanding of the current land management practices and drivers of such practices of South Dakota land operators and owners that are relevant to soil and water quality.</li><br /> <li>Program evaluation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy by Dr. Burbach showed that Academy alumni have emerged as leaders in their communities and with the knowledge and skills to drive innovative approaches to water management in Nebraska. Research by Dr. Burbach and colleagues has demonstrated that nudges combined with financial incentives are a more effective policy tool than financial incentives alone. Research by Dr. Burbach and colleagues indicates that heterogeneous landscape-scale management of grasslands will remain low unless conservation organizations and others find mechanisms to improve attitudes about fire, prairie dogs, and wildlife.</li><br /> <li>The "Common Ground Common Water" film was viewed by approximately 300 people in meetings and events. Teachers have asked to use the film in their high school science classrooms. Dr. Church has been invited to speak at a "Legislative Breakfast" in Northwest Indiana to discuss watershed planning and the importance of including "all" stakeholders in watershed management.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy&rsquo;s research on non-operating landowners has helped watershed efforts think about how to engage this very important audience. Our research on the role of the private sector in promoting conservation practices has infiltrated many sectors of government from local to state to national.&nbsp; More and more watersheds are trying to figure out how to work with crop advisors and retailers in their ongoing efforts.&nbsp; The collective research from Dr. Prokopy&rsquo;s group has been used to inform state-level communications about nutrient management.</li><br /> <li>Through key informant interviews, documented how scientist and other experts envision members of the landowning public through a ""deficit model"" lens. Building on the literature on public understanding of science and drawing from this interview data, the researchers at Penn State University suggest that humans do not change their behavior through reviewing new information alone. Instead, humans also change their behavior when groups with different forms of knowledge and experience engage in productive dialogue about the views and interests of all parties. Through dialogic processes, which are premised on mutual respect for experiences and perspectives that at times contrast, new understandings for energy crops can be developed by all parties, experts and public groups alike. The researchers suggest that this dialogic approach can indeed change human behavior, although what that change looks like will depend on the outcome of the dialogue between experts and public groups. Researchers developed a draft approach targeting scientists for fostering dialogic engagement.</li><br /> <li>Through survey data collected from landowners across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, documented socio-cultural factors that the researcher's logistic regression model predict support for perennial energy crop production locally, and willingness to grow these crops on one's private land.</li><br /> <li>In the 2017-2018 fiscal year, Iowa NC1190-related projects employed qualitative and quantitative research methods to collect and analyze social science data from Iowa farmers to inform water quality improvement activities. Research findings are helping ISU extension faculty and field staff, agencies (e.g., Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa Department of Natural Resources), NGOs (e.g., Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Clean Water Alliance), and private sector stakeholders to more effectively work with farmers to implement soil and water conservation practices in support of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a statewide initiative to reduce nutrient loss.</li><br /> <li>Wardropper&rsquo;s non-operator landowner project disseminated information about soil health to approximately 40,000 landowners with land in Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois.</li><br /> <li>Rissman&rsquo;s projects caused an increase in knowledge of extreme storm events and actions to reduce the water quality impacts of large storms, increase in knowledge about public support for various policy options for improving water quality, and greater awareness of the strengths and limitations of measurement and modeling options within payment for performance schemes.</li><br /> <li>Gramig&rsquo;s projects are well-positioned to increased knowledge of determinants of agricultural conservation (and related research findings) that can be put to use in policy design and integrated research-extension projects or programs. It is expected that findings from water quality research on BMP effectiveness will provide insights to the state of Illinois (and its neighbors) on cost-effective investments in on-farm BMPs to achieve state nutrient loss reduction goals.</li><br /> <li>Davenport&rsquo;s project outcomes have included change in knowledge and action among natural resource professionals at the local, regional and national level. The social science studies have informed decision makers about the diverse audiences they serve, in particular what drives and constrains conservation action and public engagement in water resource management. Recommendations and technical assistance provided have guided program development, staff training, policy analysis and planning. Natural resource professionals and local decision makers have adapted education, outreach and monitoring tools based on study findings. Dr. Davenport also led several professional trainings on community capacity assessment and social science research methods. Her outreach in these areas has led to increased knowledge and capacity among natural resource agency staff and other professionals. End users have applied her research to redesign community engagement strategies in natural resource plans, better implement community engagement in natural resource management programming, and design new training materials and programs for natural resource agency staff and other professionals. To further contribute to social science monitoring at state agencies, she has created a new social monitoring system that has been piloted and adopted by multiple state agencies in Minnesota and in Wisconsin. The results of social monitoring system pilot work conducted by five agencies in Minnesota have been published in the Clean Water Fund Performance Report at <a href="http://www.legacy.leg.mn">www.legacy.leg.mn</a>.&nbsp;</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><strong><em>Outputs (Websites)</em></strong><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p><br /> <p>Building Climate Readiness on Minnesota&rsquo;s North Shore&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.northshoreclimate.com">www.northshoreclimate.com</a></p><br /> <p>Center for Changing Landscapes&nbsp; <a href="http://www.changinglandscapes.umn.edu">www.changinglandscapes.umn.edu</a></p><br /> <p>Clean Water Fund Performance Report <a href="http://www.legacy.leg.mn">www.legacy.leg.mn</a>.</p><br /> <p>Eaton website: <a href="https://aese.psu.edu/directory/wme107">https://aese.psu.edu/directory/wme107</a></p><br /> <p>Gasteyer Faculty Website, <a href="http://sociology.msu.edu/faculty-and-staff/tenure_stream_faculty_directory/stephen-gasteyer">http://sociology.msu.edu/faculty-and-staff/tenure_stream_faculty_directory/stephen-gasteyer</a></p><br /> <p>Idaho Water Resources Research Institute,&nbsp; <a href="https://www.uidaho.edu/research/entities/iwrri">https://www.uidaho.edu/research/entities/iwrri</a></p><br /> <p>Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, <a href="https://ext.soc.iastate.edu/programs/iowa-farm-and-rural-life-poll/">https://ext.soc.iastate.edu/programs/iowa-farm-and-rural-life-poll/</a></p><br /> <p>Levees and Flooding of Agricultural Lands series 2011-present <a href="http://www.soc.iastate.edu/staff/wrightmorton/flooding.html">http://www.soc.iastate.edu/staff/wrightmorton/flooding.html</a></p><br /> <p>Midwest and High Plains Regional Climate Centers: <a href="https://mrcc.illinois.edu/U2U/irrigation/">https://mrcc.illinois.edu/U2U/irrigation/</a> &nbsp;and <a href="https://hprcc.unl.edu/iic.php">https://hprcc.unl.edu/iic.php</a></p><br /> <p>Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, <a href="http://waterleadersacademy.org/">http://waterleadersacademy.org/</a></p><br /> <p>Ohio Watershed Network, <a href="https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/">https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/</a></p><br /> <p>Prokopy Faculty Website: <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/prokopy/">https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/prokopy/</a></p><br /> <p>Water For Agriculture Project website: <a href="http://water4ag.psu.edu/">http://water4ag.psu.edu/</a></p><br /> <p>Water Sustainability and Climate Project, <a href="https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/yahara2070">https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/yahara2070</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong><em>Outputs (Presentations)</em></strong>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Why do farmers adopt (or not adopt) soil and water conservation practices? Keynote address for the 8th Sustainable Cropping Systems Symposium, Penn State University, State College, PA, April 6, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G.. Farmer perspectives on the social and environmental impacts of commodity crop production in Iowa. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, July 29, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. What&rsquo;s new from the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll? ISU Extension Farm Management Team In-Service. Cherokee, IA, September 27, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Iowa farmers and the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy: Are we making progress? Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance Advisory Committee Meeting, Des Moines, IA, July 26, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. How social science research can improve stakeholders understanding of farmers nutrient management perspectives and inform collaborative action to improve water quality. Urban Ag Academy, Ames, IA, July 13, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Bates, H and J.G. Arbuckle Jr. 2017. Social Predictors of Conservation Practice Adoption in Iowa. Prairie Lakes Conference. Okoboji, IA, August 9-11.</li><br /> <li>Brasier, K., Securing Water for and from Agriculture through Effective Community &amp; Stakeholder Engagement. Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, June, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Bausch and Porter. Water for Agriculture Project Overview. Various stakeholder &amp; community meetings in Arizona, April - June, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Securing Water for and from Agriculture through Effective Community &amp; Stakeholder Engagement. Nebraska Water Center, Spring Retreat, April 5, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Maximizing Your Civic Capacity by Engaging in Water Issues. Nebraska Association of County Officials (NACO), Institute of Excellence, February 13, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Full Range Leadership for Leaders in the Water Arena. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Water Leaders Academy, January 25, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Securing Water for and from Agriculture through Effective Community &amp; Stakeholder Engagement. Nebraska Association of Resources Districts, Legislative Conference, January 24, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Personal Empowerment Continuing to Develop Your Leadership Capacity. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Water Leaders Academy, November 16, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Tapping into Your Motivation to Serve and Inspiring Others in Their Service. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Water Leaders Academy, November 16, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy (poster). Nebraska Water Center, 2017 Water Symposium, October 26-27, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Addressing or managing difficult natural resource issues. Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Round Table on Engaging Stakeholders and Seeking Solutions to Complex Natural Resource Challenges. Penn State University College of Law, October 20, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Church, S.P. (2018). Common Ground Common Water: The use of film in water resource education and planning. Invited talk at Michigan City Conference on the Environment. Michigan City, IN. June 8, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Church, S.P. (Accepted). The Urban-Ag Divide: Film as a tool for shared understanding of water resource protection. Oral presentation. To be presented with R. Margerum, K. Genskow, C. Dyckman, F. Eanes, and L.S. Prokopy, at a pre-organized session organized by S.P. Church: New Directions in Water Resource Planning. 24th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Snowbird, UT. June 17-21, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Banerjee, S., &amp; Burbach, M.E. Field Experiment on Encouraging Farmers Participation in the Conservation Stewardship Program. Advances with Field Experiments 2017 Conference, September 17, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A., Pradhananga, A., &amp; Shepard, J. (2018). Social attachments drive civic engagement in climate change action. Social Coast, Charleston, NC, February 6, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2018). Nitrogen use and determinants of best management practices: A social scientist&acirc;&euro;&trade;s nitrogen reduction strategy. USDA Workshop on Nutrient Management Best Practices, Washington DC, May 22, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2018). Stitching civic engagement into water quality improvement projects: What matters? Mississippi River Basin Civic Engagement Workshop, Biloxi, Mississippi, May 31, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2018). Manoomin in Minnesota and the Great Lakes Basin: A flagship for environmental preservation and indigenous resource sovereignty. 2nd Annual Lake Superior Manoomin Restoration Workshop, Duluth, MN, April 10, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A., Perry, V. Lutsky, K. (2018). Climate change close to home: Learning and Adapting. Science on Tap, Minnesota Sea Grant, Duluth, MN. January 5, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2017). Climate change readiness on the North Shore: From information to meaning. Adaptation Planning for Coastal Communities, NOAA, Duluth, MN, October 25, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2017). Empowering people and engaging communities: The social science of clean water action. Minnesota Humanities Center We Are Water Minnesota Host Site Retreat, St. Paul, MN, October 24, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2017). Narratives of extreme weather, urban runoff, and climate adaptation. St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN September 26, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). Qualitative research: How to analyze focus group data? Training workshop presented to Sibley County project managers and partners, Gaylord, MN, May 22, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M. (2017). Social measures for civic engagement in water. Webinar presented to EPA-Civic Engagement work group. April 3, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M. (2017). Social measures for civic engagement in water. Applied research symposium: social dimensions of nutrient reduction. June 3, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M. (2017). Activating a water ethic, inspiring water action: The social science of clean water, Environmental Quality Board Meeting, St. Paul, MN, April 19, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M. (2017). North Dakota Watershed Coordinators Workshop, The social science of watershed management, Bismarck, ND, March 29, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M. (2017). Common or at least consistent progress measures to consider in climate readiness work. Center for Changing Landscapes Climate Connections Seminar Series, St. Paul, MN, February 24, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2017). Learning by listening: The social science of watershed management. 34th Red River Basin Land and Water International Summit Conference, Fargo, North Dakota, January 17, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, Theresa Selfa, &amp; Clare Hinrichs. How Social Representations of Land Shape Landowner Responses to Perennial Energy Crops. Energy Impacts Symposium. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. July 26-27, 2017</li><br /> <li>Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, Katrina Running, &amp; Clare Hinrichs. Testing the Symbolic &lsquo;Fit&rsquo; Hypothesis. How Differing Meanings for Place and Technology Shape Social Responses to Bioenergy Crops in the Northeast, U.S.A. Rural Sociological Society. Columbus, Ohio. July 27-30, 2017</li><br /> <li>Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, &amp; Clare Hinrichs. Reification of Supply and Demand: Unpacking Economic Assumptions in the Question of Landowner Adoption of Energy Crops in the Northeastern USA. Dimensions of Political Ecology. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. February 23-25, 2017</li><br /> <li>Gangeness, B., Smith, M. Davenport, M.A., &amp; Tonko, J. (2017). The year of water action: Building the water ethic in Minnesota. Minnesota Environmental Congress, St. Paul, MN, February 3, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Gramig, B.M. Behavioral insights from qualitative and quantitative research on agricultural conservation adoption and stated preferences, Land, Water &amp; Environment (ENV) track session, 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.</li><br /> <li>Groth, T., E. Toman and J. Arbuckle. The changing face of the 'traditional farmer' and the role of 'farmer identity'. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, July 28, 2017. (27)</li><br /> <li>Higgins, Kenneth F., Lora B. Perkins, and Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad. Temporal Impacts of Changing Agricultural Practices and Rural Populations on South Dakota Waterfowl Habitats and Populations.&nbsp; South Dakota Academy of Science, Brookings, SD.&nbsp;</li><br /> <li>Morton, L.W. 2017. Increasingly Variable Weather and a Changing Climate: What are farmers thinking and doing? National Association of Conservation Districts, NC Region board of directors. St Louis. January 10.</li><br /> <li>Morton, L.W. 2018.Vulnerability of Key US Agroecosystems. Scientific Collaboration for Agricultural Resilience. (US and Canada Dept of Agriculture) Ottawa, CA USDA-AAFC January 11.</li><br /> <li>Nelson, P. Davenport, M.A. &amp; Kuphal, T. (2017). Building capacity and confidence: It&rsquo;s not all about money. Water Resources Conference, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, October 18, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Nowak, J., Felix, A., Duever, B., Venier, C., &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). Communication, information sources, and the rural-urban divide. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 22, 2017, Umea, Sweden.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). A moral approach to farmer adoption of conservation practices. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 19, 2017, Umea, Sweden.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). Qualitative research: How to conduct and analyze focus groups? Training workshop presented to Sibley County project managers and partners, St. Peter, MN, February 28, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Perry, V., Shepard, J., &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). Collective efficacy theory as a framework for qualitative data analysis and community-centered water resource management. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 19, 2017, Umea, Sweden.</li><br /> <li>Perry, V., Meier, H. &amp; Davenport, M.A. (2017). Are we ready? Lower St. Louis River Basin community climate and extreme weather perceptions and preparedness, Mixed Methods Study Findings. St. Louis River Summit, March 14, 2017, Superior, WI.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, L.S., J. Arbuckle, K. Floress, S.P. Church, P. Ranjan, A. Singh, J. Barmblett, K. Flahive, M. McDonald. (2017). Meta-Review of Barriers and Motivations for Farmers to Adopt Conservation Practices. Symposium presentation. 72nd Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference. Madison, WI. July 30-August 2, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda. February 2018. Priorities for Water Research. National Institutes for Water Resources annual meeting, Washington, DC.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda, November 2017. Social-Behavioral Dimensions: Motivating Change on Ag Lands, FFAR Convening Event on Barriers to Innovation Adoption, Washington, DC.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda, November 2017. Useful to Usable: A Retrospective Look at Successes and Challenges in Communicating Climate Change in Agriculture, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda, September 2017. The Role of Non-Operating Landowners in Conservation. CTIC Tour, Benton County, IN.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda, August 2017. Socio-Behavioral Determinants of Behavior Change in Agriculture. Keystone Monarch Collaborative Steering Committee meeting, Washington, DC.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda. July 2017. Talking Climate Change Down on the Farm. Wolf Park, Battleground, IN.</li><br /> <li>Ranjan, P. and S.P. Church. (Accepted). Barriers to conservation adoption: Evidence from qualitative research. Oral presentation. To be presented with L.S. Prokopy, J. Arbuckle, and K. Floress, at a pre-organized session: Meta-Review of Barriers and Motivations for Farmers to Adopt Conservation Practices. 24th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Snowbird, UT. June 17-21, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Ranjan, Pranay and Linda Prokopy. March 2018. Barriers to Soil Health Practices on Rented Land. Soil Health on Rented Lands in Indiana: A Workshop for Agricultural, Conservation and Landowner Service Professionals to Explore Potential Solutions, Indianapolis, IN.</li><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Private land conservation: improving effectiveness and transparency in an era of environmental change. Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. UW-Madison. April, 2018. Madison, WI</li><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. and Chloe Wardropper. Responses to Extreme Storms and Water Quality Information Use by Soil and Water Conservation Offices. Wisconsin Soil and Water Conference. March, 2018. Lake Geneva, WI</li><br /> <li>Shepard, J. Davenport, M.A., Seekamp, E., Pradhananga, A. (2017) Global climate change and local adaptation: Working across scales of problems, governance, and human experience. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Umea, Sweden June 19-22, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Shepard, J. Davenport, M.A., Pradhananga, A., Seekamp, E. (2017) Lake Superior will always be Lake Superior: Resident perceptions of climate change and community adaptation on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, USA. (Poster) International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Ume&Atilde;&yen;, Sweden June 19-22, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Shepard, J. Davenport, M.A. (2017) Qualitative inquiry as a tool for centering local knowledge in community based adaptive management. (Poster) National Adaptation Forum, St. Paul, MN. May 9-11, 2017.</li><br /> <li>Shepard, J., Duever, B., Felix, L. Daveport, M.A. (2017) Community-centered adaptive management: Qualitative inquiry of climate change narratives on Minnesota&rsquo;s North Shore. Western Social Science Association Conference, San Francisco, CA. April 15-17 2017.</li><br /> <li>Sun, S, BM Gramig, M Delgado and JP Sesmero. Spatial spillovers and temporal dynamics: heterogeneous impacts of agricultural cropland allocation and crop rotation on water quality, 2017 Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics workshop, Urbana, IL.</li><br /> <li>Sun, S., B.M. Gramig, M. Delgado and J.P. Sesmero. Spatial spillovers and temporal dynamics: heterogeneous impacts of agricultural cropland allocation and crop rotation on water quality, Selected poster, 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.</li><br /> <li>Sun, S., B.M. Gramig, M. Delgado and J.P. Sesmero. Measuring the effectiveness of agricultural conservation expenditures on water quality, Poster presentation, 2017 AERE Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</li><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B., Y. Masuda, R. Dell, P. Ranjan, S. Reddy, L. Prokopy. Tailoring messages to increase conservation on U.S. rented cropland. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Snowbird, Utah. June 17-21, 2018.</li><br /> <li>Whitmer, W. Securing Water for Agriculture through Effective Community and Stakeholder Engagement. National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals, June 2018&nbsp;</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p><strong><em>Activities</em></strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Ulrich-Schad conducted a random sample survey of 3,000 South Dakota commodity crop farmers to assess their usage of soil and water conservation practices including the role of sense of place and entrepreneurial culture in their usage of land management practices. Through a USDA-NIFA grant, she developed and tested a typology of usage of parasiticides among livestock producers. She is conducting interviews with South Dakota land owners and their tenants to assess how they communicate about conservation practices used and the power dynamics at play</li><br /> <li>Burbach evaluated the effect of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy in producing catalysts of change in water issues. He also evaluated the effect of empathy nudging on water policy and programs. Investigated predictors of ranchers' attitudes toward heterogeneous landscape--scale management.</li><br /> <li>Church produced a video and began data collection analyzing the video on watershed awareness and water as a shared resource. This 12-minute video highlights voices from urban and agricultural stakeholders, describing their impacts and actions to help protect water quality. Originally this "case study" was to be included as an example on an NC1190 paper on the "urban-Ag divide", which may yet happen. She also collaborated on a research note proposing new sense of place (SOP) measures for working lands to better measure the role of SOP in conservation behaviors. NC1190 collaborators include J. Arbuckle, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, and Wes Eaton. The paper has been submitted for a revise and resubmit in Society and Natural Resources. She collaborated on a USGS 104g grant proposal to explore the role of systems thinking in conservation programming and adoption at the state, watershed, and farm levels. NC1190 collaborators include J. Arbuckle, Doug Jackson-Smith, and Linda Prokopy. The grant was submitted June 15.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy: (1) Worked with Kristin Floress, Ben Gramig, J. Arbuckle and others on a meta-analysis of all the ag BMP literature in the last 35 years. Results are not yet ready but are forthcoming.&nbsp; Preliminary results were presented at the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual meeting in summer of 2017; (2) Analyzed the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework developed by ARS to understand how it can be used to get farmers and landowners to make conservation-friendly decisions on their land. Two papers are being drafted from this work; (3) Explored the role of Non-Operating Landowners in decisions on working farmlands across Iowa, Illinois and Indiana in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. Paper synthesizing results from qualitative interviews is in review. Paper synthesizing results of a messaging experiment is being drafted; (4) is exploring the role of crop insurance as a barrier to conservation adoption on farmland; (5) is working in three watersheds in Indiana (St. Mary's, Big Pine, and Upper White) to understand barriers and constraints to collaboration between multiple stakeholders; (6) is working in Saginaw Bay in Michigan to evaluate the effectiveness of a partnership program between The Nature Conservancy, NRCS, and the Michigan Agribusiness Association; (7) is working with NRCS to evaluate the effectiveness of National Water Quality Initiative.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle and fellow NC1190 co-PI Linda Prokopy received a grant from the Walton Family Foundation ($80,000) called Assessing Barriers to Adopting Conservation Practices. The project is conducting a review and meta-analysis of 35 years (1982-2017) of quantitative and qualitative social science research papers that have examined motivations of and barriers to adoption of soil and water conservation best management practices (BMPs) in US agriculture. The study will update and greatly expand on previous work that has reviewed BMP adoption (e.g., Prokopy et al. 2008; Baumgart-Getz et al. 2012). It will (1) review an unprecedented number of studies, (2) accommodate a number of recent advances in this field of study such as the growth of qualitative research with farmers, (3) focus on barriers to adoption in addition to motivations for adoption, and (4) identify gaps and areas in which more research is needed.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle is conducting a 5-year survey research project to measure change in awareness, attitudes, and actions related to nutrient loss reduction among Iowa farmers, and to identify barriers to action. Results have been disseminated through targeted presentations and the farm press, and stakeholders have used results to help refine programs.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle and fellow NC1190 co-PI Mae Davenport in March 2017 received a NIFA AFRI grant called Understanding and Building Capacity to Address Changing Water Availability in the Upper Corn Belt. This three-year multistate project (ISU and UMN) seeks to improve understanding of how planners, policy makers, and agricultural producers anticipate, respond, and adapt to changing water availability in four sites in Iowa and Minnesota. Iowa research has conducted in-depth interviews with rural water systems, livestock groups, government agencies, and other key stakeholders to evaluate perspectives on water availability and water quality issues in the region. The in-depth interviews are informing the development of a farmer survey to be conducted in both states.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, in the 2017 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll (IFRLP) survey, examined several NC1190-relavent issues, including influence of Agricultural Information Sources (public and private sector actors) influence over crop and livestock and conservation decisions. Findings indicate that Local ag retailers, Seed dealers, and ISU Extension have the most influence on crop and livestock decisions, while USDA-NRCS, ISU Extension, and family members who farm have the most influence on soil and water conservation decisions. These results point to likely areas to focus communication and engagement resources. A second relevant set of IFRLP questions asked farmers to self-assess their farm&rsquo;s performance relative to other farm operations in their area on several metrics on 5-point scale from far below average to far above average. Results showed that in terms of controlling soil erosion, only 1% of farmers believe their performance is below average, while 30% rated themselves as average, and 69% were above average. In terms of controlling nutrient loss: 2% rated themselves below average, 35% average, and 63% above average. These results suggest that Iowa farmers overestimate their farms; environmental performance.</li><br /> <li>Eaton published a paper on northeast USA landowner perceptions of perennial energy and conservation crops, another paper on how northeast USA scientists imagine landowner behavior relative to perennial energy and conservation crops; and began work with Dr. Burbach and Dr. Brasier on a USDA grant focused on stakeholder engagement and water quality and quantity relative to agriculture in Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Arizona (see below). He also developed and implemented survey items measuring Sense of Place (SOP) in working landscapes specifically, with colleagues in field of natural resource and rural sociology, in surveys with farmers in South Dakota, Idaho, and Iowa. Preliminary findings (to be) presented at ISSRM 2018., and he developed and implemented survey items measuring landowner and farmer perspectives on precision agriculture technologies and conservation practices, with colleagues in field of natural resource and rural sociology, in surveys with farmers in Iowa</li><br /> <li>Gasteyer is finalizing an EPA grant on "Cooling the Hotspots"" in River Raisin on farmer led watershed analysis.</li><br /> <li>Tonya Haigh co-authored a chapter called "The use of serious games for building cross-sector collaboration for water management planning under climate extremes" for the GTR that is being edited by Kristen, Linda, and Mark. Other co-authors include Deborah J. Bathke, Tonya Bernadt, Nicole Wall, Harvey Hill, and Andrea Carson.</li><br /> <li>Flores is moving the GTR of the NC1190 team's case studies through the publication process. She also published a paper last fall co-authored with the team: Floress et al. 2018 (see below).</li><br /> <li>Wardropper worked with NC1190 colleagues at UW-Madison and Purdue before starting a new faculty position at the U of Idaho. In her new role, she worked as co-author on 3 publications in review or in prep on non-operator landowners of farmland and their adoption of conservation practices. She also co-organized the session on &ldquo;Non-operating agricultural landowners: Who they are, what we know, and how to work with them&rdquo; at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Snowbird, Utah held June 17-21, 2018. She also established new research programs on adoption of conservation in wheat-growing regions of the inner Pacific Northwest, and on practices that improve water quality and quantity in rangeland systems in Idaho and Montana.</li><br /> <li>Brasier and Dr. Burbach successfully received funding from USDA for the project, "Securing Water for and From Agriculture Through Effective Community and Stakeholder Engagement" (Award Number: 2017-680007-26584). Activities involved in this first year include team organization, literature reviews, development of conceptual models, and baseline data collection. Team members reported on this project at the June, 2018 NC1190 meeting, which led to further discussion of how to increase the visibility of this project's engaged scholarship.</li><br /> <li>Rissman examined public perceptions of water quality policies; published results from a survey of households in southern Wisconsin. She presented research and facilitated discussion in a workshop on the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin attended by local stakeholders from government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and university researchers. She also conducted public outreach on water quality improvement efforts.</li><br /> <li>Gramig officially joined the project in March of 2018 and worked on multi-state collaboration with NC-1190 members Prokopy (Purdue), Arbuckle (Iowa State) and Floress (USFS) on a systematic review of farmer adoption and barriers to adoption of conservation practices in the United States (1982-2017). He also is working with graduate students and collaborators at Purdue and the SILC Business School at Shanghai University to evaluate the environmental and cost-effectiveness of the EQIP program administered by USDA-NRCS using conservation contract data together with land use/land cover, soils, weather and water quality monitoring data in the Illinois and Wabash River basins of Illinois and Indiana. His NC1190-related activities included ongoing work that focuses on the economics of irrigation adoption (expansion) under projected future climate change in the Midwest/North central region; this work includes research and development of farmer decision support tools (current climate basis) found online through the Midwest and High Plains Regional Climate Centers: https://mrcc.illinois.edu/U2U/irrigation/ and <a href="https://hprcc.unl.edu/iic.php">https://hprcc.unl.edu/iic.php</a></li><br /> <li>Davenport had 10 projects related to NC1190 including two directly examining public perceptions of water supply and risk associated with climate change and other impacts. The other projects include a state-wide survey of Minnesota residents on the value of water and water protection; an interdisciplinary study of impacts to manoomin (wild rice), a culturally significant grass species that grows in shallow lakes; and several other survey projects for local water resource managers. Her research team has also conducted workshops and trainings with local water resource and land use professionals on community assessment using social science research methods. She continues to consult with state agencies in Minnesota on tracking the social outcomes of water projects.</li><br /> <li>Jackson-Smith is chairing a Task Force on Water Quality for the College of Food Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the Ohio State University. This Task Force will be proposing a new Water Quality Initiative to better coordinate and improve the impact of water quality research, teaching and extension activities at OSU. He conducted research on the response of Ohio state agencies and nonprofit organizations to the Gulf Coast Hypoxia Task Force Nutrient Reduction Strategy memo. He continues to work on social, institutional and organizational factors that mediate adoption and performance of water quality behaviors in agricultural and urban systems. He also served as secretary of NC1190 this year.</li><br /> </ul>

Publications

<p><strong><em>Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (published)</em></strong></p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Andrews, AC, R Clawson, BM Gramig and L Raymond. 2017. Finding the Right Value: Framing Effects on Domain Experts. Political Psychology 38(2): 261-278.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G., J.C. Tyndall, L.W. Morton, and J. Hobbs. 2017. Climate change typologies and audience segmentation among Corn Belt farmers. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 72(3):205-214.</li><br /> <li>Armstrong, A. and D. Jackson-Smith. (forthcoming) Privatization and Inter-Municipal Collaboration in Local Stormwater Planning and Management. <em>Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.</em></li><br /> <li>Armstrong, A. and D. Jackson-Smith. 2017 &ldquo;Connections and Collaborations of Local Water Management Organizations of Utah.&rdquo; Society and Natural Resources 30(11): 1343-1357. Doi: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1347972</li><br /> <li>Barnett, M., D. Jackson-Smith, and M. Haeffner. 2018. Influence of recreational activities on water quality perceptions and concerns: a replicated analysis. <em>Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism</em>.</li><br /> <li>Bates, H. and J.G. Arbuckle. 2017. Understanding Predictors of Nutrient Management Practice Diversity in Midwestern Agriculture<em>. Journal of Extension</em> 55(6)</li><br /> <li>Brock, Caroline, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, and Linda S. Prokopy. Bridging the Divide: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Sector Agricultural Professionals Working with Amish and Mennonite Producers on Conservation. <em>Environmental Management</em> 61(5): 756-771.&nbsp; DOI: 10.1007/s00267-018-0998-5.</li><br /> <li>Church, Sarah P., Tonya Haigh, Melissa Widhalm, Silvestra Garcia de Jalon, Nicholas Babin, Stuart Carlton, Michael Dunn, Katie Fagan, Cody L. Knutson, Linda S. Prokopy. 2017. Agricultural Trade Publications and the 2012 Midwestern U.S. Drought: A Missed Opportunity for Climate Risk Communication. <em>Climate Risk Management</em>, 15: 45-60.</li><br /> <li>Church, Sarah P. and Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2017. The Influence of Social Criteria in Mobilizing Watershed Conservation Efforts: A Case Study of a Successful Watershed in the Midwestern U.S. <em>Land Use Policy</em>, 61: 353-367.</li><br /> <li>Church, S.P., L.B. Payne, S. Peel, L.S. Prokopy. 2018. Beyond water data: Benefits to volunteers and to local water from a citizen science program. <em>Journal of Environmental Planning and Management</em>: 1-21.</li><br /> <li>Church, S.P., Dunn, M., N. Babin, A.S. Mase, T. Haigh, L.S. Prokopy. 2017. Do Advisors Perceive Climate Change as an Agricultural Risk? An in-depth examination of Midwestern U.S. Ag advisors&rsquo; views on drought, climate change, and risk management. <em>Agriculture and Human Values</em>: 1-17.</li><br /> <li>Czap, H.J., Czap, N.V., Burbach, M.E., &amp; Lynne, G.D. 2018. Does might make right? An experimental investigation on the impact of who owns the property rights. <em>Ecological Economics</em>, 150, 229-240.</li><br /> <li>Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., &amp; Burbach, M.E. 2018. Conforming to or defying gender stereotypes? Empathy nudging vs. financial incentives in environmental context. <em>Review of Behavioral Economics</em>, 5(1), 61-84.</li><br /> <li>Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., Burbach, M.E., &amp; Lynne, G.D. 2018. Experiments on Empathy Conservation: Implications for Environmental Policy. <em>Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy</em>, 2(2), Early view.</li><br /> <li>Eanes, Francis R., Ajay R. Singh, Brian R. Bulla, Pranay Ranjan, Linda S. Prokopy, Mary Fales, Benjamin Wickerham, Patrick J. Doran. 2017. Midwestern US Farmers Perceive Crop Advisers as Conduits of Information on Agricultural Conservation Practices. <em>Environmental Management</em>, 60(5): 974-988.</li><br /> <li>Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, C. Clare Hinrichs, &amp; Theresa Selfa. 2018. How do sociocultural factors shape rural landowner responses to the prospect of perennial bioenergy crops? <em>Landscape &amp; Urban Planning</em> 175:195-204.</li><br /> <li>Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, Clare Hinrichs, &amp; Theresa Selfa. 2017. Bioenergy experts and their imagined &lsquo;obligatory publics&rsquo; in the United States: Implications for public engagement and participation. <em>Energy Research &amp; Social Science</em> 25:65-75.</li><br /> <li>Flint, C.G., X. Dai, D. Jackson-Smith, J. Endter-Wada, S.K. Yeo, R. Hale &amp; M.K. Dolan. 2017. Social and Geographic Contexts of Water Concerns in Utah. <em>Society &amp; Natural Resources</em> 30(8):885-902. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1264653.</li><br /> <li>Floress, Kristin, Adam Reimer, Aaron Thompson, Mark Burbach, Cody Knutson, Linda Prokopy, Marc Ribaudo, Jessica Ulrich-Schad. 2018. Measuring Farmer Conservation Behaviors: Challenges and Best Practices. <em>Land Use Policy</em>. 70: 414-418.</li><br /> <li>Floress, K., Garcia de Jalon, S., Church, S., Babin, N., Ulrich-Schad, J., Prokopy, L.S., 2017. Toward a theory of farmer conservation attitudes: dual interests and willingness to take action to protect water quality. <em>Journal of Environmental Psychology</em>. 53, 73-80.</li><br /> <li>Gardezi, M. and J.G. Arbuckle. 2018. Spatially Representing Vulnerability to Extreme Rain Events Using Midwestern Farmers' Objective and Perceived Attributes of Adaptive Capacity<em>. Risk Analysis</em>. DOI: 10.1111/risa.12943</li><br /> <li>Gramig, BM and NJO Widmar. (forthcoming) Farmer Preferences for Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration Schemes. <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>.</li><br /> <li>Gramig, BM, R Massey and SD Yun.2017. Nitrogen Application Decision-making under Climate Risk in the U.S. Corn Belt. <em>Climate Risk Management</em> 15:82-89.</li><br /> <li>Haigh, Tonya, Vikram Koundinya, Chad Hart, Jenna Klink, Maria Lemos, Amber Saylor Mase, Linda Prokopy, Ajay Singh, Dennis Todey, and Melissa Widhalm. 2018. Provision of Climate Services for Agriculture: Public and Private Pathways to Farm Decision-making. <em>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society</em>.</li><br /> <li>Hale, R., C. Flint, D. Jackson-Smith and J. Endter-Wada (forthcoming). Social Dimensions of Urban Flood Experience, Exposure, and Concern. <em>Journal of the American Water Resources Association</em>.</li><br /> <li>Jackson-Smith, D., S. Ewing, A. Sigler, C. Jones, and A. Armstrong. (forthcoming) Farmers as Partners in Science: Participatory approaches to solving a groundwater nitrate pollution problem. <em>Journal of the Soil and Water Conservation Society</em>.</li><br /> <li>Haeffner, M., D. Jackson-Smith, and C.G. Flint. 2018. Social position influencing the water perception gap between local leaders and constituents in a socio-hydrological system. <em>Water Resources Research</em>. 54. doi: 10.1002/2017WR021456.</li><br /> <li>Haeffner, M., D. Jackson-Smith, M. Buchert, and J. Risley. 2017. Accessing blue spaces: social and geographic factors structuring familiarity with, use of, and appreciation of urban waterways. <em>Landscape and Urban Planning</em> 167: 136-146. DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.008.</li><br /> <li>Klink, Jenna, Vikram Koundinya, Kim Kies, Courtney Robinson, Amulya Rao, Claire Berezowitz, Melissa Widhalm, and Linda Prokopy. 2017. Enhancing interdisciplinary climate change work through comprehensive evaluation. <em>Climate Risk Management</em>, 15: 109-125.</li><br /> <li>MacGowan, Brian, Ajay Singh, Bryan Overstreet, Michael O&rsquo;Donnell, Heidi Klotz, Linda S. Prokopy. In Press. Producer&rsquo;s Opinions on What Makes Effective Demonstrations. <em>Journal of Extension</em>, 16269RIB.</li><br /> <li>Mase, Amber Saylor, Benjamin Gramig, and Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2017. Climate Change Beliefs, Risk Perceptions, and Adaptation Behavior among Midwestern U.S. Crop Farmers. <em>Climate Risk Management</em>, 15: 8-17.</li><br /> <li>McClellan, E.L., K.E. Schilling, C.F. Wolter, M.D. Tomer, S.A. Porter, J.A. Magner, D.R. Smith, L.S.Prokopy 2018. Right Practice, Right Place: A Conservation Planning Toolbox for Meeting Water Quality Goals in the Corn Belt. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>. 73(2): 29A-34A.</li><br /> <li>Morton, L.W. and K.R. Olson. 2018. The pulses of the Mekong River Basin: Rivers and the</li><br /> <li>livelihoods of farmers and fishers. <em>Journal of Environmental Protection</em> 9:431-459.</li><br /> <li>Olson, K.R. and L.W. Morton. 2017. Tonle Sap Lake and River and Confluence with the Mekong River in Cambodia. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>. 73 (3):60A-66A.</li><br /> <li>Olson, K.R. and L.W. Morton. 2017. Water rights and fights, Lao PDR dams on the Mekong River.<em> Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>. 73(2)35A-41A.</li><br /> <li>Olson, K.R. and L.W. Morton. 2017. Managing Upper Missouri River for agriculture, irrigation, flood control and energy. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>. 72(5):105A-110A.</li><br /> <li>Olson, K.R. and L.W. Morton. 2017. Sedimentation, navigation, and agriculture on the lower Missouri River. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>. 72(4):80A-86A.</li><br /> <li>Olson, B. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2017. An inductive model of farmer conservation decision making for nitrogen management. <em>Landscape Journal</em>, 36(1), 59-73.</li><br /> <li>Pape, Aaron and Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2017. Delivering on the Potential of Formal Farmer Networks: Insights from Indiana. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>, 72(5): 463-470.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A., Davenport, M.A., Perry, V. 2017. The influence of beliefs and norms in landowners&rsquo; civic engagement in water resource protection. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>, 72(6), 639-649.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2017. Community attachment, beliefs, and residents&rsquo; civic engagement in stormwater management<em>. Landscape and Urban Planning</em>, 168, 1-8.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A., Davenport, M.A., Fulton, D.C., Maruyama, G.M., &amp; Current, D. 2017. An integrated moral obligation model for landowner conservation norms<em>. Society and Natural Resources</em> 30(2), 212-227.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, Linda Stalker, J. Stuart Carlton, Tonya Haigh, Maria Carmen Lemos, Amber Saylor Mase, Melissa Widhalm. 2017. Useful to Usable: Developing Usable Climate Science for Agriculture. <em>Climate Risk Management</em>, 15: 1-7.</li><br /> <li>Qiu, Jiangxiao, Chloe B. Wardropper, Adena R. Rissman, and Monica G. Turner. 2017. Spatial fit between water quality policies and hydrologic ecosystem services in an urbanizing agricultural landscape<em>. Landscape Ecology</em>. 32(1):59-75.</li><br /> <li>Rissman, A.R., P. Kohl, C.B. Wardropper. 2017. Public support for carrot, stick, and no-government water quality policies. <em>Environmental Science and Policy</em>, 76, 82-89.</li><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R., Jessica Owley, Andrew W. L'Roe, Amy W. Morris, and Chloe B. Wardropper. 2017. Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation<em>. Ecology and Society</em>. 22(2):24&nbsp;&nbsp; https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09330-220224</li><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R., Patrice Kohl, and Chloe B. Wardropper. 2017. Public support for carrot, stick, and no-government water quality policies. <em>Environmental Science and Policy</em>. 76:82-89.</li><br /> <li>Roesch-McNally, G.E., J.G. Arbuckle, and J.C. Tyndall. 2018. Barriers to implementing climate resilient agricultural strategies: The case of crop diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt. <em>Global Environmental Change</em> 48:206-215.</li><br /> <li>Roesch-McNally, G.E., J.G. Arbuckle, and J.C. Tyndall. 2018. Soil as social-ecological feedback: Examining the &lsquo;ethic&rsquo; of soil stewardship among Corn Belt farmers. <em>Rural Sociology</em>. 83(1):145-173.</li><br /> <li>Roesch-McNally, G., Basche, A., Arbuckle, J., Tyndall, J., Miguez, F., Bowman, T., and Clay, R. 2017. The trouble with cover crops: Farmers&rsquo; experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption. <em>Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems</em> 1-12. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000096</li><br /> <li>Schulte, L.A., Niemi, J., Helmers, M.J., Liebman, M., Arbuckle, J.G., James, D.E&hellip;, Witte, C. 2017. Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn-soybean croplands<em>. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</em> 114(42):11247-11252.</li><br /> <li>Sigler, W.A., S.A Ewing, C.A Jones, R.A Payn, E.N.J. Brookshire, J.K Klassen, D. Jackson-Smith, G.S. Weissmann,. 2018. Connections among soil, ground, and surface water chemistries characterize nitrogen loss from an agricultural landscape in the upper Missouri River basin. <em>Journal of Hydrology</em> 556: 247-261. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.018</li><br /> <li>Singh, Ajay S., Brian MacGowan, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Michael O&rsquo;Donnell, Heidi Klotz, and Linda S. Prokopy. &nbsp; The influence of demonstration sites and field days on conservation practices adoption. <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 73(3): 274-281.</li><br /> <li>Singh, Ajay, Francis Eanes, Linda Prokopy. 2018. Assessing Conservation Adoption Decision Criteria Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process: Case Studies from Three Midwestern Watersheds. <em>Society and Natural Resources</em>, 31(4): 503-507.</li><br /> <li>Stoker, P., R. Ewing, M. Buchert, and D. Jackson-Smith. (forthcoming) &ldquo;Neighborhood effects on parcel level water use.&rdquo; <em>Sustainable Water Resources Management.</em></li><br /> <li>Ulrich-Schad, Jessica, Carolina Brock, Linda Prokopy. 2017. A Comparison of Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices between Amish and Small non-Amish Farmers<em>. Society and Natural Resources</em>. 30(12): 1476-1490.</li><br /> <li>Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., Silvestre Garcia de Jalon, Nicholas Babin, Aaron Pape, Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2017. Measuring and Understanding Agricultural Producers&rsquo; Adoption of Nutrient Best Management Practices<em>. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em>, 72(5): 506-518.</li><br /> <li>Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., Caroline Brock, and Linda S. Prokopy. &nbsp; A Comparison of Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices between Amish and non-Amish Farmers.&nbsp; <em>Society and Natural Resources</em> 30(12): 1476-1490.</li><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B. Environmental performance information use by conservation agency staff. 2018. <em>Environmental Management</em>, 61 (4), 563-576. doi: 10.1007/s00267-017-0990-5</li><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B., S. Gillon, A.R. Rissman. 2017. Experimental governance and uncertain measurement produce both risk and collaboration in a watershed nonpoint pollution program. <em>Land Use Policy</em>, 67, 690-701.</li><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B., Sean Gillon, and Adena R. Rissman. 2017. Uncertain monitoring and modeling in a watershed nonpoint pollution program. <em>Land Use Policy</em>. 67:690-701.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong><em>Technical Reports</em></strong></p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. 2017. <em>Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: 2017 Summary Report. </em>Extension Report SOC3085. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M. E., &amp; Reimers-Hild, C. (2017). 2017 <em>Nebraska Water Leaders Academy Final report</em>. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Open-File Report 177.</li><br /> <li>Church, S.P., N. Babin, B. Bentlage, M. Dunn, J.D. Ulrich-Schad, P.Ranjan, J. Magner, E. McLellan, S. Stephan, M. Tomer, L.S. Prokopy. (under review) The Beargrass Story: Utilizing social science to inform, evaluate, and learn from the watershed approach. To be included in: Floress, K., L.S. Prokopy, M. Burbach (Eds.) <em>Catalyzing Change: Social Science Research Approaches for Natural Resources Management</em>. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report.</li><br /> <li>Fairchild, E. and D. Jackson-Smith. 2017. &ldquo;Shifting water use patterns in response to the conversion of irrigated agricultural lands.&rdquo; <em>Rural Connections</em> 11(1): 17-20. Available at: Available at: http://wrdc.usu.edu/files-ou/publications/rcspr2017d.pdf</li><br /> <li>Fellows, S., Green, E. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2018. <em>Seven Mile Creek Watershed: Minnesota Community Assessment for Clean Water.</em> A final technical report prepared for the Seven Mile Creek Watershed Partnership and Great River Greening. St. Paul, MN: Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota, 107 pp.</li><br /> <li>Sliwinski, M., &amp; Burbach, M. 2017. <em>Collaborative conservation in the Great Plains: Opportunities and barriers for cross-property private-lands management</em>, USDA NIFA SARE Project Reports. https://www.sare.org/Project-Reports</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A., Green, E. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2017. <em>Building local capacity for groundwater protection: An evaluation of groundwater management workshops.</em> A final technical report prepared for the University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. St. Paul, MN: Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota, 46 pp.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2017. <em>Social science-based evaluation of Scott County&rsquo;s Technical Assistance and Cost Share Program</em>. St. Paul, MN: Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota. 72 pp.</li><br /> <li>Pradhananga, A. &amp; Davenport, M.A. 2017. <em>An assessment of landowner conservation behavior in Nicollet County, Minnesota</em>. A final technical report submitted to Nicollet County. St. Paul, MN: Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota, 89pp.</li><br /> <li>Sliwinski, M., Burbach, M., Powell, L., &amp; Schacht, W. 2017. <em>Managing for wildlife habitat on rangelands in the Great Plains</em>. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Open File Report-162.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong><em>Book Chapters</em></strong></p><br /> <p>Doering, OE III, BM Gramig, D Jeong. 2018. Economic and Policy Implications of Nitrogen Management in <em>Soil Nitrogen Uses and Environmental Impacts,</em> eds. Lal and Stewart. CRC Press. (ISBN 9781138626362).</p>

Impact Statements

1. Wetzstein, Michael, Linda Prokopy, et al. Does Crop Insurance Inhibit Climate-Change Irrigation-Technology Adoption? $462,498, USDA-NIFA, 2017-2021.

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Participants

Kristin Floress (kristin.m.floress@usda.gov) - Eric Kaufman (ekaufman@vt.edu) - Sarah Church (sarah.church@montana.edu) – Mark Burbach (mburbach@unl.edu) - Chloe Wardropper (cwardropper@uidaho.edu) - Jessica Schad (jessica.schad@usu.edu) - Doug Jackson-Smith (jackson-smith.1@osu.edu) - Ben Gramig (bgramig@illinois.edu) - Rich Margerum (rdm@uoregon.edu) - Adena Rissman (adena.rissman@wisc.edu)- J. Arbuckle, (arbuckle@iastate.edu) - Stephen gasteyer (gasteyer@msu.edu) - Linda Prokopy (lprokopy@purdue.edu) - Adam Wilke (awilke@umn.edu), Jeffrey Peterson (jmpeter@umn.edu), Pranay Ranjan (ranjanp@purdue.edu) - Sarah Fellows(fello067@umn.edu) - Mae Davenport (mdaven@umn.edu ) - Lourdes Arrueta (arruetaantequera.1@osu.edu) - Kathy Brasier (kbrasier@psu.edu) - Anil Chaudhary (auk259@psu.edu) - Caroline Frock - Wes Eaton (eatonwes@psu.edu) - Zhixuan Wu (zwu223@wisc.edu) - Adena Rissman (adena.rissman@wisc.edu) - Ken Genskow (kgenskow@wisc.edu)

Brief Summary of Minutes

Tuesday, June 25^th

 

7:00 pm: Informal dinner in Wooster

 

Wednesday, June 26^th

 

7:00 am:    Breakfast at hotel

8:00           Convene in Research Services 130 – OARDC campus, Welcome & quick introductions

              

8:30         State Updates (each individual gave a brief introduction and update on activities in the past year related to NC 1190 - 5-10 minutes/state)

 

Idaho – U of Idaho -- Chloe Wardropper – University of Idaho

Project on cover crops – wheat land NW Idaho

Cover Crops as a

USGS Powell Center project --  SUCCINCT Like – visualizing streamflow depletion to better understand water quality issues across the USA –

Aquifer depletion – Water quantity…

Indiana - Purdue University - Linda Prokopy – Talked about the forthcoming Special issue of Journal of Contemporary Research and Education;  On a project Crop Insurance as a limiter for BMP adoption – Beginning farmers yes – but standard farmer say yes, but actually don’t;  Longterm conservation adoption – Why continue use or not; 

 

Indiana- Purdue University -- Pranay Ranjan –

Farmer perception of conservation – mid-term report

On-line focus groups and work that they are doing….

Work with non-operating landowners – Barriers to adoption of conservation practices see paper in Land Use Management         

Ag Conservation Planning Toolbox – HUC 12 scale conservation opportunities…

See 2 papers –  One in Journal of Soil and Water Conservation – that address these issues and use of decision support tools…

 

Iowa – Iowa State University -- J. Arbuckle– still working on the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.  Was formerly associated with ERS but have pulled out.  Research interests include -- working on groundwater use in agriculture; increased use of anaerobic digesters on Iowa farmers

 

Michigan - Michigan State University -- Stephen Gasteyer

Working on: water and sanitation in rural communities and its implications for water quality – specifically onsite wastewater management; farmer led conservation and water quality, specifically in the Western Lake Erie Basin; understanding drainage and water management; an integrated approach to understanding the social factors behind algae blooms; groundwater management and irrigation – comparing across state context.

 

Minnesota -- Jeffrey Peterson – we went through mid-term review – positively reviewed

Announced upcoming proposals… NIFA - AFRI – Foundation RFP is out…Noted that NIFA will relocate to Kansas City along with ERS and this may disrupt timing of future grants.  This is also creating a number of position vacancies. 

Funding at NSF – INFEWS – being phased out…  One more round…

New Funding at NSF – 1. Coastlines and People –

2. Sustainable Urban Systems -- includes surrounding landscapes

UCOWR conference – 2020 – Twin Cities – Call for special sessions…Deadline mid-September

      June 9-11, 2020          

 

Minnesota -- Adam Wilke– will be program director for UCOWR –would like some discussion of upper Midwest water issues at the conference.  He is interested in questions related to water data.  Collaborating with University of Illinois (among others) who have established the Midwest big data hub.

 

Minnesota -- University of Minnesota -- Mae Davenport --  Projects:  1) working with J. Arbuckle on how to build relationships with farmers – focus on Practices, behaviors, etc., focused on:  Building capacity to address changing water; Subgroup comparisons on water values; Gender differences and water values; Risk perception and water behaviors; Social norms of conservation – science communication; 2) Understanding and Protecting the Harvest – Policy and law… Tribal directed research – Survey of state permitted wild rice Mennomin -  (Wild Rice) – Sulfate standard for wild rice…work in particular with tribal resource managers;  3) Narratives of Urban Waters; 4)  Papers – Outcomes of practices – What is the social and ecological feedback that is important?

 

Minnesota – UM -- Sarah Fellows – has been continuing work in the Root River watershed – asking: What are the drivers and barriers to adoption;  also the Sand Creek Watershed – asking: What are the attitudes and values that have changed;  also working on Shifting efforts to social norms – capacity and capacity needs to protect soil and water quality – and focusing on contextual capacity development to address particular water issues.  Targeting capacity…

 

Montana State University - Sarah Church – working on:

• Successful watershed management à practitioners guides – successful watershed management;


• Case studies of How to make a successful project – flooding – education and extension;


• Paper for issues of hydro-sciences – what should we be funding research for – socio-hydrology framework – See Matt Sanderson’s email about call for papers


• System’s thinking – Talk to farmers about decision making – farmers as system’s thinking – have we plateaued in adoption because we talk in a systems we don’t message to non-systems thinkers – Getting farmers to draw out thinking


• Developing a Film on watersheds and BMP implementation – from multiple stakeholder perspective… hoped to use for a social learning approach… Title: “Common Ground, Common Water”

 

 

Nebraska – University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Mark Burbach –

Working on: Ag Participation in water quality efforts;  Nebraska Ag leadership program – evaluation leadership programming;  USDA NIFA grant work with herders on management practices – discovered that most ranchers manage to the middle to make landscape to more homogeneous, and thus less resilient to climate variation in weather patterns – has led to work with NRCS and Coop Extension recognizing that some of their programs have in fact created barriers to heterogeneity – specifically prairie dog eradication programs.

 

Ohio -- Ohio State University -- Doug Jackson-Smith

Working on project exploring soil balancing (with organic farmers) to get a better sense of how this alternative practice fits into holistic approach to soil health management under organic systems. Also submitting proposal to identify the impacts of re-integration of livestock back into crop production systems in the Corn Belt.  Fully integrating livestock could help identify ways to optimize nutrient cycling and close nutrient loops.  Also, using livestock opens up viable pathways diversity cropping systems.  Continuing work on NSF-INFEWS grant on effects of ‘deglobalization’ on eastern corn belt/upper Midwest.  Integrated regional economic model will be coupled with SWAT Model to simulate impacts of economic changes associated with changes in trade and access to global markets on water quality in the region. Colleague, Robyn Wilson, is conducting a survey of farmers and non-operating landowners to capture information on how do farmers respond to changed economic conditions through land use and enterprise changes. 

 

More broadly, Doug is continuing research on participatory approaches to both research and modeling. On the NSF-INFEWS project we are bringing in farmers and stakeholders to unpack model assumptions and demystify the black box of SWAT and regional economic models. Ideally, feedback will lead to better science and better models that are more accurate and more impactful on the world. Also interested in leading a group effort to document impacts of various approaches to doing on-farm research. One example that is being explored in OH is to develop Discovery watersheds – like Discovery Farms, but expanded to include observations that connect edge of field to mainstream rivers and terminal lakes.  Still serving on the NASEM Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources.  Also collaborating with group of social scientists in an NSF-SESYNC pursuit to develop synthetic conceptual model that explains private lands conservation behavior by integrated sociology, psychology, decision-science and economics theory and methods. Goal is to find a couple of case studies to do empirical test of model.  As sociologist – one key issue that is being highlighted is role of structure and Macro Decision Making Context in shaping individual decisions and behaviors?

 

Doug – Bringing in a postdoc this fall (Andrea Rissing) who did her PhD at Emory University with Peggy Barlett (who in turn wrote great book on the farm crisis, and showed how farmers who ignored the advice of experts to expand and take on debt in the 1970s made it through the farm crisis best in the 1980s).  Andrea will be helping design and implement a statewide Ohio farm survey this winter.

 

Ohio State -- Lourdes Arrueta (student of Doug Jackson-Smith) – working on working on disproportionality – pattern of actual fertilizer application -- development of perceptions of watershed function among farmers and scientists   

 

Ohio State -- Caroline Brock -- works with Doug in Wooster and has taken the lead on the Soil Balancing/Nutrient Mgt project listed above.  Also working with colleagues at OSU on a study of antibiotic resistance and herd health management on Ohio cattle/dairy farms (including a focused set of organic dairies, as well as typical conventional herds).

 

Anil – is working on a lit review that will bring in the multiple factors will share with us…

 

Pennsylvania -- Wes Eaton – working on: 1) Participation in water for agriculture – (Kathy Brasier PI), Issues of interest include -- mix-methods, case comparisons, application of social learning theory, Leadership – scales of learning and change.  Two papers out of the work are under development:  Paper on conceptual model; Paper on what does a participatory framework look like?  2)  Also working on understanding sense of place and measures of working landscapes – including a paper in Society and Natural Resources on “sense of loss and working landscapes…”

Penn State -- Anil Chaudhary– working on:  How are networks addressing water issues?;  Water quality and BMPs among farmers and how to move beyond piece meal approaches to addressing water quality – toward an interdisciplinary and system wide approach to adoption of water quality policy;  working on a drinking water quality study, specifically groundwater concerns and how does GW quality impact human and animal health?

 

Penn State -- Kathy Brasier– Working with Wes – also working on Energy – Marcellus Shale.

 

Virginia Tech -- Kurt Stephenson – Working on meeting Chesapeake Bay water quality goals….

Scramble to meet the TMDL by 2025

Has a Grant to look at legacy N – in springs – what might be treatments – bioreactors…

Pay for performance – contracts to remove pounds

The more water treated, the more land one treated

VA – has very stringent WW release – Urban spending $500/lb

Regulatory risk – in working with farmer…

Technical Advisory for Chesapeake Bay Initiative – Scientific Gap analysis

What was tried versus outcomes – disconnect

Prime suspects is agriculture

Doing a stack workshop – how do we better target BMPs

 

Virginia Tech -- Eric Kauffman – Working on Educational Leadership;  Sustainable unsustainability;  adaptive leadership;  Leadership among individuals…

 

Wisconsin- UW Madison -- Adina Rissman

Have two – small and medium sized farms – how new landowners understand their land.

Parcel data to understand parcel rates – conservation rates

How are new landowners acculturated to conservation

2 teams – Grasslands 2.0 – looking at grassland management

INFEWS grant around upper Mississippi basin – will look at governance networks

See – Adaptation paper – among County Conservationists – more common than planning

Staffing was not associated was not associated – Still working on Nutrient

 

Wisconsin – UW Madison Ken Genskow –

Working on:

• Collaborative approaches… Interest in Farmer-Led watershed council… Tracking longterm progress in Farmer-led Watershed councils


• Looking at water quality issues in water sands part of Wisconsin – Stakeholder participatory modeling on watershed management in high conflict


• Developing NSF – Socio-hydrologic framework – on multi-stakeholder initiative on longterm water issues.


• NCRWN – supporting small initiatives


• SARE 46 group – Hypoxia Task Force – Linda is on…Big focus on soil health


• Phosphorous trading in Wisconsin – Law that created numeric P standard to provide for cap that could be traded

 

Wisconsin – UW Madison - Zhixuan Wu -- P Trading in Wisconsin – 50 trading cases – gap between practice and theory

Problem of nonrecognition of transaction cost… -- who are participants and how do they make their decisions…  How do Point and non-point sources interact…  Problem of possible competition between NRCS and trading –

 

 

9:30            Review of work on 6 priority tasks from last year

 

10:30         Break

 

11:00         Election of new secretary

Stephen Gasteyer, Doug Jackson-Smith and Mark Burbach outlined the job…

Mae Davenport was nominated, and accepted the nomination to be the incoming secretary.  A key caveat is that that she and Gasteyer will switch the roles in hosting meetings 2020 and 2021.  Davenport will host the 2020 meeting in Minneapolis, MN to coincide with the UCOWR meetings, where there will be an NC1190 panel, and Gasteyer will host in 2021 in East Lansing, MI

 

Brainstorm plans/priority projects for 2019/20

 

A brainstorming exercise was developed by Doug Jackson-Smith to identify the priority projects for 2019/2020.  Exercise involved people nominating potential topics and projects, then rearranging these on the wall to identify priorities and clusters of similar ideas.  Based on this activity, we identified the following activities.

 

Report outs included interest in:

Wardropper – 1. The development of a Multi-Site Workshop on Participatory modeling; 2.  Role of crop insurance in farmer conservation;  3. Comparative Studies of Hypoxia Outbreaks (e.g. Great Lakes, Mississippi-Gulf; Chesapeake Bay)

Reismann – 1. Urban Rural conservation paper; 2. Multi-state participatory modeling – Literature review on Decision making and adoption of BMPs

Ranjan – 1.  Excess moisture – role collective action theory in agricultural drainage – in other words, excess water management; 2. What is the typology of agricultural operational relationships? 3.  Non-operating land owner and operating land owner relationships

Gasteyer – 1. Connecting urban and rural water quality mobilization; 2. Drainage; 3. Onsite Sanitation and water quality

Burbach -- Engagement workshop; Farmer research fatigue

Prokopy – BMPs, adoption, and effectiveness.

Stephenson – 1. adoption; effectiveness – 2. next generation incentive programming

Wu – 1. Content analysis of media to discover local perceptions of water quality issues; 2. Public perception and TMDLs;

Genskow– 1. Addressing policy options for achieving water quality (regulatory, etc.); 2. competing versus complimentary conservation; 3) Ten-year post Stoner memo analysis of impact.

Church – 1. Paper on urban-rural impacts of conservation; 2. Maladapatation to issues like climate change and moving beyond;  3. Limits to engagement

Kaufmann – Work on grant writing …

Frock– Farmer to farmer TA and conservation (farmer led conservation)

Wilke – 1. Generational Difference;  2. Non-Adoption – what is our role to engage; 3. Impacts and trajectory of the Hypoxia task force and state level response…

Arrueta – Participatory modeling workshop – how to and when to engage stakeholders

Kathy Brasier – 1. Performance and BMPs – individual performance and landscape level impacts…  individual vs. collective action in a particular perspective

Chaudary – 1) BMP adoption – How do different factors that impact different farmers impact adoption…; 2) How do community based participatory approaches – community based social marketing…

Eaton – 1. interdisciplinary team science; 2. workshop and book

Arbuckle – 1. Proposing increased collaboration across NC-1190; 2. inform better questions,

Jackson-Smith – 1. coordinate data collection across states… 2. replicate Assessment of onfarm research --- 3. Urban water narratives – cross-culture water issues… 4. Conservation programs – water leadership programs

Davenport – 1. Why do participants participate in programs…  ; 2) getting the social science applied by U of Minnesota Extension – Is our social science used and how is it used?  Especially in Agriculture; 3) Participation/engagement – empowering feedback loops for self-efficacy

 

 

12:30         Lunch

 

1:00           Prep for phone call with Allison Thompson, Field-to-Market

 

1:15           Zoom call w/ Allison Thompson

 

Allison Thomson Discussed the Field to Market initiative – an initiative to work with industry to incentivize farmers to move toward sustainability.  The call discussed how the initiative is organized, the partners and numbers of farmer participants (about 30,000).  NC 1190 participants discussed the possibilities of collaboration, specifically thinking about data collection, evaluation, the issues tipping and saturation points, voluntary vs. regulatory approaches, compliance concerns, participatory research design, and how to build on existing knowledge related to farmer and community motivations for implementing conservation measures.   

 

2:00-3:00   Presentation about Alpine Nutrient Trading Program, Sugar Creek Projects (R. Moore)

Richard Moore and Michelle Wood (Holmes Soil and Water Conservation) – presented on the Sugar Creek – Incredible improvement of water quality –

Project has received lots of awards…

 

The group heard a presentation on the Sugar Creek – Alpine Dairy Nutrient Trading Program – considered one of the most successful nutrient trading programs in the US.  Presenters highlighted the importance of the  modeling the system to understand the contributors to poor water quality and the role of the Alpine Dairy in adding nutrients to the watershed, followed the calculations of what percent of the problem could be offset through paying for farmers to implement Best Management Practices for livestock and crop management to minimize runoff.  Alpine Cheese makes Jaarslberg cheese – producing lots of Phosphorous.  After EPA identify high nutrient levels in the watershed, issued requirements for a significant reduction through plant upgrades.  Alpine Cheese factory was to be closed for excess emissions, EPA and factory came to OSU (Moore).  EPA happened to be interested Environmental Services Trading – and inaugurated the first Water Quality Trading project to achieve water quality through trading emissions in the Sugar Creek watershed.  The Dairy ultimately did commit to Partial facility upgrade, but then with SWCS as the intermediary, traded for the rest of the nutrient reduction.  Worked with 25 farmers to install 91 practices, creating 7,133 credits, needed 5,500 by 2011.  In just three years achieved goals in nutrient reduction remediating twice as much N as P – because of the BMPs implements.  Created 12 jobs, at the cheese factory, and improved milk by improving cow health.  The project worked because it was implemented in an area with a small enough watershed that there was a high level of trust between farmers and dairy and the existence of trusted brokers (SWCS, OSU Extension).  From a watershed perspective, the project started in the headwaters and then moved into secondary and tertiary watersheds, which allowed for built-in synergies.  RESEARCH CHALLENGES for future research and application to other cases: How to Lower Transaction costs; How to include carbon trading with P and N trading?;  How to give incentives for upstream conservation?;   How to create synergy between multiple PS?  How to include local economic development?  Critical source area modeling?  Ingredients of success included -- Structured to be farmer friendly and flexible… 2 page contract – knew exactly how much money they would receive based on credits.  Farmers were directly related to dairy – so there was a sense of community benefit to implementation.  Relationships – Ag Extension Agents – worked with community – HHs, community meetings.  SWAG to pay for each credit -- $30 per practice, about perfect…WHY NOT MORE of these kinds of initiatives.  Aside from the problem of trust, it is not always financially the best option.  For instance, WW treatment plants can treat with chemicals which is less expensive.   trusted interlocutor

 

3:00           The Group departed on field trip of the Alpine Dairy and the Sugar Creek Watershed

 

7:30           Return to Wooster from field trip

 

7:45           Group dinner downtown Wooster (City Square Steakhouse patio)

 

Thursday, June 27^th

 

7:00 am     breakfast at hotel

 

8:00           Convene in Research Services 130 / OARDC

                   Decide on topics for focused subgroup work/discussion/planning for 2019/20

 

9:00           Work on special topics

 

Grouping of projects

Super spicy – (Lots of interest for the coming year)

1. Hypoxia Task Force and Nutrient Reduction Plans – cluster –

1) 10 Year Anniversary of Stoner Memo;

2) Comparative Hypoxia initiatives -- Mississippi River, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, etc.  What are trends and what have been actions. 

 

1. Engaging Farmers –


2. Workshop;


3. Joint volume (special issue; compendium);


4. Course

 

1. Finalizing the Urban- Rural Relationships paper --

 

1. Drainage –


2. Understanding trends;


3. Maladaptation;


4. Perspective

 

1. BMP adoption -- Social science on adoption;


2. Factors leading to adoption;


3. How is it sustained over time;


4. Adoption under different conditions – conservation plan – State regulations/NRCS regulations…who are the programs and actors;


5. Policy adoption strategies

 

1. Use and practice of social science –

 

Details of activities

Participation and Engagement

1. Workshop; bringing together (see Wes’ proposals)
   
   
   
   1. Who would be involved? -- Scholars/researchers/practitioners/program directors
   
   
   2. Solicit USDA conference grant
   
   
   3. Timing – tentative 2020
   
   
   4. Maybe special session at UCOWR --
   
   
   
   


2. Maybe develop a white paper…


3. Focus on public participation and working landscapes and water…part of the issues


4. Multi-campus Course? – A) Working Title:  Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Research;
   
   
   
   1. Stakeholder engagement
      
      
      
      1. Watershed planning
      
      
      2. Program design and implementation
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   

 

1. Participation research/modeling
   
   
   
   1. farmer
   
   
   
   


2. Class – could be a class to engage people in engagement with the community – Giving communities planning tools and strategies… structure and deadlines


3. Use to coordinate literature review


4. Methods training


5. Graduate and Undergraduate training…


6. Paper outputs? Authorship?


7. Lit review / end product goal


8. Online

 

 

Adoption, dead option, factors of participation – in what ways does participation contribution

1. Holistic synthesis
   
   
   
   1. Literature review
   
   
   2. Methods
   
   
   3. Empirical data
   
   
   4. Adoption/Implementation and de-adoption; how to deal with the full suite of variables; factors; methods; gaps
   
   
   
   


2. How build off literature review effort from last few years.

 

 

Hypoxia and Nutrient Reduction strategies

1. Stoner Memo as Catalyst – Mississippi Basin – impact and variance across states…
   
   
   
   1. Coordination with SARE46
   
   
   
   


2. Comparative case paper on hypoxia cases – Chesapeake, MRB, GLB - issues and catalysts Institutional and system work –

 

Conservation Adoption Process

• Holistic synthesis
  
  
  
  • Lit reviews on social science on WQ/behaviors
  
  
  • Methods
  
  
  • Empirical data
  
  
  • Adoption/implementation and de-adoption; how to deal with the full suite of variables; factors; methods; gaps
  
  
  • Coordinating instruments
  
  
  
  

 

• How to build off the literature review effort


• See “Inspiring Action for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control” university of Minnesota


• Mapping of conceptual models… by discipline…


• Use that to guide a comparative case study


• Proposal
  
  
  
  • Convening to synthesize/integrate conceptual models
  
  
  • Use model to guide comparative case study assessment of ag watershed conservation projects across states – perhaps focus on one or more of the big basins (Chesapeake, Mississippi, Great Lakes)
  
  
  • Funding Sources?
    
    
    
    • Foundations (Walton,…)
    
    
    • Nonprofits (TNC, NFWF, AFT)
    
    
    • Fed Agencies (USDA?, NSF)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

 

Create pooled database of empirical studies of BMP adoption (actual data instruments)

Fund a Research Coordination Network

 

Adoption pathways, sustainability

Persistence, de-adoption

 

Social drivers –

      Intergeneration ties, family dynamics, gender

      Behavior heterogeneity, disproportionality

      Landlord/tenant

 

Policy Issues / Institutions

      (RMA; incentives/performance)

      Governance structures

 

Economic / market condition (sweet spot, driver, excuse…)

Accomplishments

<p><strong>Accomplishments </strong></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Through surveys and interviews led by Dr. Church, we are increasing our understanding of the role of systems thinking in conservation behaviors. We found that farmers who adopt conservation practices are more likely to be systems thinkers than non-adopters. We are using this preliminary data to develop a more robust set of systems thinking measurements and to understand any messaging gaps that occur between conservation staff and farmers due to the use of a systems approach to conservation. Our results will be discussed with our NRCS partners to help inform their communication strategies with farmers.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Program evaluation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy by Dr. Burbach showed that Academy alumni have emerged as leaders in their communities and with the knowledge and skills to drive innovative approaches to water management in Nebraska. Research by Dr. Burbach and colleagues found that partnerships with NGOs, research universities, and public agencies are critical to progressive ranchers successful operations. Furthermore, Dr. Burbach and colleagues determined that managing for vegetation heterogeneity in grasslands is compatible with cattle production. The role of boundary spanner, individuals within an organization who can reach across organizational borders to build relationships, interconnections, and interdependencies in order to manage complex problems, is important to establishing trust between stakeholders in integrated water resource management.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Wardropper: 1)Outreach materials about soil health and water quality were sent to over 30,000 landowners of farmland in IL, IN, IA as part of a Purdue and TNC-led project; 2) 2 workshops conducted with farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in Idaho and Washington on barriers and opportunities to implementing erosion-control measures including no-till and cover crops; 3) Increased knowledge of water quality perceptions and health behaviors related to lead-contaminated waterways in northern Idaho through a survey; 4) Co-developed computer game for middle and high school students that educates kids about metals contamination in waterways in mining-impacted regions; 5) greater realization of the value of including social science researchers/research in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary projects addressing soil and water conservation in SD for Dr. Schad&rsquo;s project</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Jackson-Smith: OSU-CFAES WQ Task Force developed a strategic plan and is implementing it to expand access to and impact of water quality related research by non-academic partners. State water quality policy discussions increasingly grounded in science (which originated from or is organized by OSU faculty).</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Gramig&rsquo;s project increased understanding of farmer willingness to adopt and resistance to adopting nutrient loss reduction practices in central Illinois. A key constraint identified is the large share of high cash rent land being farmed and the perceived requirement that landlords accept lower rents if farmers are required to adopt certain practices.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Margerum&rsquo;s project led to two products that have been shared with practitioners: (1) Funding and compensation report for councils and coordinators to share information about resource stability and compensation levels for coordinators; (2) metrics on council utilization of resources, training along with a needs assessment of training and resources for councils which will be used by the Oregon Network of Watershed Councils to support their strategic planning, training and outreach.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>In 2018-2019, Iowa NC1190-related projects employed qualitative and quantitative research methods to collect and analyze social science data from Iowa farmers to inform water quality improvement activities. Research findings are helping agencies (e.g., Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa Department of Natural Resources) and NGOs (e.g., Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Clean Water Alliance), and private sector stakeholders to more effectively work with farmers to implement soil and water conservation practices in support of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a statewide initiative to reduce nutrient loss.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>PI Arbuckle collaborated on three grants with NC1190 participants in other states. Products of research have been disseminated through journal articles published or forthcoming, extension and technical reports,) presentations to academic and stakeholder audiences, and multiple articles referencing NC1190-related research in mainstream news outlets (e.g., New York Times, Des Moines Register) and agricultural press (e.g., Wallaces Farmer, Iowa Farmer Today).</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Rissman realized that county conservationists are more aware of adaptation options for extreme storm events. Additionally, Watershed partners are beginning to integrate climate change projections into models of future water quality, such as Yahara CLEAN 3.0</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong><strong>Output (websites) </strong></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><a href="https://iwrrc.org/commongroundcommonwater/">https://iwrrc.org/commongroundcommonwater/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, <a href="http://waterleadersacademy.org/">http://waterleadersacademy.org/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><a href="https://chloewardropper.weebly.com/">https://chloewardropper.weebly.com/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><a href="mailto:waterquality@osu.edu">waterquality@osu.edu</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><a href="https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/yahara2070">https://wsc.limnology.wisc.edu/yahara2070</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><a href="http://clean-water.uwex.edu/partners.html">http://clean-water.uwex.edu/partners.html</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Output (Presentations) </strong></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G., S. Church, F. Eanes, K. Floress, Y. Gao, B. Gramig, L. Prokopy, P. Ranjan, A. Singh. Why farmers adopt (or do not adopt) soil and water conservation practices: Results from a meta-analysis of adoption research from 1982-2017. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 24, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="2"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Rented farmland: Are Landlords from Mars and Tenants from Venus? Evidence from an Iowa Landowner Survey. ISU ANR Extension Crops Team Spring In-Service. Boone, IA, April 2, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="3"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. A Brief History of Adoption Research: From Hybrid Corn to Cover Crops. Iowa Water Conference. Ames, IA, March 12, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="4"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Rented farmland: Are Landlords from Mars and Tenants from Venus? Evidence from an Iowa Landowner Survey. Iowa Water Conference. Ames, IA, March 12, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="5"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Land Tenure and Soil Health. ISU Soil Health Conference. Ames, IA, February 4, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="6"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Monarch butterflies and Iowa agriculture: What do farmers think? Environmental Defense Fund/ISU Monarch Conservation Workshop, Ames, IA, November 27, 2018</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="7"><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Why do farmers adopt (or not adopt) soil and water conservation practices? The Nature Conservancy Iowa Board of Trustees Meeting. Marion, IA, July 20, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="8"><br /> <li>Bielicki, J.M., E. Irwin, L. Arrueta Antequera, B. Bakshi, M.A. Beetstra, C. Brock, Y. Cai, B. Cultice, M. Doidge, D. Jackson-Smith, J. Kast, J. Martin, A. Randall, I. Sheldon, S. Tang, Y. Wang and R.S. Wilson. The Dynamic Regional Food, Energy, Water Systems Framework for Investigating Effects of Deglobalization, Presentation at American Geophysical Union Meetings. Washington, DC December 10-14, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="9"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Great Plains ranchers management for vegetation heterogeneity: The need for partnerships. ISSRM, Oshkosh, WI, June 4, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="10"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Water for agriculture and local leadership teams. Central Platte Region Local Leadership Team meeting, February 5, Wood River, NE, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="11"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Full Range Leadership for leaders in the water arena. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, Lincoln, NE, January 24, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="12"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Tapping into your motivation to serve and inspiring others in their service. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, November 15, Nebraska City, NE, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="13"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Personal empowerment &ldquo; Continuing to develop your leadership capacity. Nebraska State Irrigation Association, Nebraska Water Leaders Academy, November 15, Nebraska City, NE, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="14"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. creating an engaged approach to water for &amp; from agriculture. Nebraska Water Center Advisory Board Meeting, November 5, Lincoln, NE, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="15"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E. Catalysts of change: An evaluation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy. ISSRM, June 20, Snowbird, UT, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="16"><br /> <li>Church, S.P., J. Lu, L.S. Prokopy. "The role of systems thinking in early adopter conservation behaviors: Implications for middle adopters." Oral. 25th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Oshkosh, WI. June 2-7, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="17"><br /> <li>Church, S.P., J. Lu, L.S. Prokopy. "The role of systems thinking in early adopter conservation behaviors: Implications for middle adopters." Oral. 74th Soil and Water Conservation Society International Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. July 28-31, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="18"><br /> <li>Church, S.P. "Common Ground Common Water: Film as a tool for shared understanding of water resource protection." Poster. 74th Soil and Water Conservation Society International Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. July 28-31, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="19"><br /> <li>Delozier, J., &amp; Burbach, M.E. Boundary Spanners: A key resource in developing trust between stakeholders in integrated water resource management. ISSRM, Oshkosh, WI, June 4, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="20"><br /> <li>Eanes, Francis Weston M. Eaton, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad Sarah P. Church, Morey Burnham, and J. Arbuckle. &nbsp; Sense of Place in Working Landscapes: Troubles and Opportunities.&nbsp; International Symposium on Society and Research Management; Oshkosh, WI.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="21"><br /> <li>Kolady, Deepthi, Tong Wang, and Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad. Adoption of diverse crop rotation: Drivers and implications. Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting; Birmingham, AL.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="22"><br /> <li>Morris, C. and J.G. Arbuckle. Do conservation plans make a difference in practice adoption? Evidence from Iowa farmers. Iowa Water Conference. Ames, IA, March 12, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="23"><br /> <li>Norton, M. and J. Arbuckle. Livestock Production, Water Scarcity, and Potential for Collaborative Water Governance in Northwest Iowa. Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society &amp; Association for the Study of Food and Society. Madison, Wisconsin, June 15, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="24"><br /> <li>Norton, M. and J.G. Arbuckle. Livestock production, water scarcity and potential for collaborative water governance in northwest Iowa. Iowa Water Conference. Ames, IA, March 13, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="25"><br /> <li>Prokopy, L., S Church, B Gramig, P Ranjan. Meta-Review of Barriers and Motivations for Farmers to Adopt Conservation Practices, 2018 SWCS, Albuquerque, NM. July 30, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="26"><br /> <li>Ranjan P. and J.G. Arbuckle. Meta-Review of Barriers and Motivations for Farmers to Adopt Conservation Practices. Iowa Water Conference. Ames, IA, March 12, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="27"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Adapting conservation policy and management to ecosystem dynamics and no-analog futures. Colorado State University. April, 2019</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="28"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Using social sciences to inform lake management. Lake Leaders. Kemp Station, WI. September, 2018. [training with local lake association leaders and volunteers]</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="29"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Organized and presented at a public forum, Tackling Environmental Problems: the Wisdom of Science and Lived Experience. Madison, WI. November, 2018. Speakers at the event included: Connie Blau, landowner and citizen scientist, Tim Van Deelan and Chris Kucharik from UW Madison, Alison Duff from USDA Dairy Forage Research Center, Heidi Johnson from Dane County UW-Extension, Mary Kolar from Dane County Board of Supervisors, Curt Meine from Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Center for Humans and Nature.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="30"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Panelist, Science and the Public: Apocalypse Wow, Madison Children's Museum Adult Swim. March 8, 2019. [public panel on environmental and social futures for adult night at the museum]</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="31"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Love and land: managing private lands for public good. Baraboo Range Preservation Association. Baraboo, WI. February, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="32"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Governing agricultural water quality: spatial, temporal, and functional dimensions of ecohydrologic institutional fit. Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop. June, 2019. Bloomington, IN.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="33"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. Adaptations to extreme storms by county conservationists. Water@UW. May, 2019. Madison, WI.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="34"><br /> <li>Rissman, Adena R. October, 2018. UW Agroecology graduate seminar, Farm Bill Conservation Title.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="35"><br /> <li>Saak, Alexander, Tong Wang, Deepthi Kolady, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, David Clay, Abdelrahim Abulbasher. (Poster) Economic and environmental benefits of conservation tillage: perceptions of farmers in South Dakota. Soil Health Institute Annual Meeting; Albuquerque, NM.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="36"><br /> <li>Schaad, J. Adaptations to extreme storm events by conservation organizations. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Oshkosh, Wis. June 2-6, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="37"><br /> <li>Schaad, J. Tailoring messages to promote conservation on U.S. rented cropland. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Snowbird, Utah. June 17-21, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="38"><br /> <li>Schaad, 2019 (Invited) South Dakota Farmers: Usage and Determinants of Conservation Best Management Practices Webinar. South Dakota Regional Carbon Group.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="39"><br /> <li>Schaad, 2018 (Invited) Utilizing the Social Indicator Planning &amp; Evaluation System (SIPES) to Assess Conservation Outreach and Practices (Webinar). The Nature Conservancy.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="40"><br /> <li>Sun, S, M Delgado and BM Gramig. Cost-effectiveness of Nutrient Loss Reduction from Working Lands Agricultural Conservation Expenditures, 2018 AAEA, Washington, DC.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="41"><br /> <li>Wall, N. &amp; Burbach, M.E. maximizing your civic capacity by engaging in water issues.Nebraska Association of County Officials (NACO), Institute of Excellence, Lincoln, NE, September 7, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="42"><br /> <li>Wang, Y, M. Delgado, JP Sesmero, BM Gramig. Impact of Ethanol Plant Spatial Competition on Local Corn Supply: A Spatially Explicit Analysis, Southern Economic Association 2018 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="43"><br /> <li>Yun, SD and BM Gramig. Agro-Climatic Data by County (ACDC): Methods and Data Generating Processes. 2018 North American Regional Science Conclave (NARSC), San Antonio, TX. November 10, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Activities</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Flores collaborated with Dr. Prokopy and Dr. Burbach to edit a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Water Resources and Education, along with publishing papers in the issue. The issue is a direct output from NC1190 - the papers are all co-authored by our team members and we have been working on it for 2 years. Issue: "Catalyzing Change: Social Science for Water Resources Management" <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1936704x/2019/167/1">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1936704x/2019/167/1</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Church collaborated on a research note with several members of NC1190 (Eaton, Ulrich-Schaad, Church, Arbuckle) that proposed a new set of survey questions to understand how sense of place and a conservation ethic situated specifically in working landscapes contributes to conservation behaviors: She also published a case study about the use of social science data in watershed planning and management. This is part of a special issue specific to research and collaborations with NC1190 members (Church, Ulrich-Scahd, Ranjan, Prokopy). Church, S.P., Babin, N., Bentlage, B., Dunn, M., Ulrich Schad, J.D., Ranjan, P., Magner, J., McLellan, E., Stephan, S., Tomer, M.D. and Prokopy, L.S., 2019. The Beargrass Story: Utilizing Social Science to Evaluate and Learn from the &acirc;&euro;&oelig;Watershed Approach. Journal of Contemporary Water Research &amp; Education, 167(1), pp.78-96. 3) Completed and published two literature synthesis projects looking at determinants of farmers' conservation behaviors with several NC1190 members (Arbuckle, Church, Floress, Gramig, Prokopy, Ranjan).Ranjan, P., Church, S.P., Floress, K. and Prokopy, L.S., 2019. Synthesizing Conservation Motivations and Barriers: What Have We Learned from Qualitative Studies of Farmers&acirc;&euro;&trade; Behaviors in the United States?. Society &amp; Natural Resources, pp.1-29. Prokopy, L.S., Floress, K., Arbuckle, J.G., Church, S.P., Eanes, F.R., Gao, Y., Gramig, B.M., Ranjan, P. and Singh, A.S., 2019. Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 74(5), pp.520-534. She engaged in research and outreach on climate change impacts to water quality, including the responses of county land and water conservation departments/districts to extreme storm events. This included a research survey of county conservationists, research brief, and talks at conferences and the Wisconsin county conservationist association. She also did a research on water quality trading and trading-like mechanisms. Wisconsin's water quality trading programs are growing rapidly, and I have conducted research and assisted students on understanding the dynamics of these programs.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Burbach evaluated the effect of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy in producing catalysts of change in water issues. He investigated predictors of ranchers' attitudes toward heterogeneous landscape--scale management. He also investigated the role of boundary spanners in developing trust between stakeholders in integrated water resource management.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Kaufman co-chaired an Extension program team in the area of Leadership, Volunteerism, and Civic Engagement.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Wardropper did two conferences presentations on related topics. She was awarded 5 Grants on related topics. She did 4 publications on related topics</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Schad received the 2019 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Best Research Paper Award (Dunn et al. 2016). She presented Utilizing the Social Indicator Planning &amp; Evaluation System (SIPES) to Assess Conservation Outreach and Practices (via Webinar) to The Nature Conservancy. She also presented on South Dakota Farmers: Usage and Determinants of Conservation Best Management Practices (via Webinar) to the South Dakota Regional Carbon Group. She conducted a mail/online survey of South Dakota corn, soybean, and wheat producers regarding nutrient management; included questions to test the theory of planned behavior as part of a grant received from the Nutrient Research and Education Council of South Dakota. She also conducted a mail/online survey of livestock producers in South Dakota who graze their cattle to learn about their parasiticide usage, their knowledge about dung beetle populations (and relationship with parasiticide use), and attitudes regarding soil health; included questions to study sense of place and relationship to conservation behavior; part of a 3 year grant received from USDA-NIFA with rangeland ecologists and entomologists to study dewormers and dung beetle populations. Within 3 different farmer surveys, she conducted survey experiments to document best practices for survey research with farmers including the usage of incentives, institutional affiliations (NRCS), and multiple simultaneous response options. She also conducted about 40 interviews with farmers in SD who have diversified on-farm (including into wind farming) regarding the drivers, challenges, and benefits to diversification as well as the impact on their identity as farmers</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Dr Jackson-Smith contributed to an NSF funded survey of farmers and nonoperating landowners in 5-state region to identify likely land use changes made in response to markets and policy shocks. Work will help inform development of coupled systems model to simulate effects of 'deglobalization' and environmental policies on food, energy and water system in eastern corn belt/Great Lakes region. He chaired Water Quality Task Force for College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. Developed recommendations for expanding and improving impact of CFAES faculty research, outreach, and teaching on water quality. Facilitated update of white paper on scientific knowledge about drivers of algal blooms in Western Lake Erie Basin.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Gramig: 1) Worked extensively throughout the entire year with multi-state team that included NC-1190 members Arbuckle (IA State), Floress (USDA-FS), and Prokopy (Purdue) funded by the Walton Family Foundation to complete a meta-review of the literature on adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the US. 2) Presented research at the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy annual workshop and Research Showcase in fall 2018. 3) Worked with Extension, NGO and private sector interests on agricultural sustainability issues in Illinois through the informal "Alphabet Soup" group/network convened by The Nature Conservancy that includes farm organizations, environmental NGOs working on agriculture, SWCDs and federal agencies</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle collaborated on three grants with NC1190 participants in other states. Products of research have been disseminated through journal articles published or forthcoming, extension and technical reports)</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle is conducting a 5-year (2015-2019) survey research project sponsored by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa State University Extension. The survey objectives are to measure change in awareness, attitudes, and actions related to nutrient loss reduction among Iowa farmers, and to identify barriers to action. Results have been disseminated through technical reports, targeted presentations, and the farm press.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle is a collaborating researcher on NC1190 member Linda Prokopy (Purdue University) grant from the Walton Family Foundation ($100,000) called Assessing the strengths and limitations of voluntary conservation to modify agricultural practices. The project is conducting focus groups in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana with farmers who do not use recommended BMPs and non-operator landowners. We also continue to work on papers stemming from our 2016-17 Walton Family Foundation grant Assessing Barriers to Adopting Conservation Practices.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle is conducting a 5-year (2015-2019) survey research project sponsored by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa State University Extension. The survey objectives are to measure change in awareness, attitudes, and actions related to nutrient loss reduction among Iowa farmers, and to identify barriers to action. Results have been disseminated through technical reports, targeted presentations, and the farm press. Stakeholders have used results to help refine outreach programs for farmers and agricultural advisers.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle is co-PI with fellow NC1190 member and lead PI Mae Davenport (University of Minnesota) on a NIFA AFRI grant called Understanding and Building Capacity to Address Changing Water Availability in the Upper Corn Belt. This three-year multistate project (ISU and UMN) seeks to improve understanding of how planners, policy makers, and agricultural producers anticipate, respond, and adapt to changing water availability in four sites in Iowa and Minnesota. Iowa research has conducted in-depth interviews with rural water systems, livestock groups, government agencies, and other key stakeholders to evaluate perspectives on water availability and water quality issues in the region. In spring 2019 the project conducted a survey of farmers in both states to collect data on water availability and management perspectives and practices.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>In 2018 Dr. Arbuckle annual survey of Iowa farmers, the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, examined several NC1190-relavent issues, including current and potential future use of key agricultural BMPs and current participation in watershed management activities. Just 30% of farmers indicated that there was an active watershed management group in their watershed, and only 15% percent reported that they themselves are involved in watershed management activities.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Arbuckle is co-PI on an internal Iowa State University Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (PIRI) Program grant (3 years, $741,480) called Initiative for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (CHANGE).&acirc;&euro; The primary objectives of the grant are to conduct research and engagement that leads to increased integration of perennial crops into Iowa agricultural landscapes and development of anaerobic digesters/biogas and bioproduct supply chains that improve agriculture environmental and economic outcomes.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Rissman: 1) Research and outreach on climate change impacts to water quality, including the responses of county land and water conservation departments/districts to extreme storm events. This included a research survey of county conservationists, research brief, and talks at conferences and the Wisconsin county conservationist association. 2) Research on water quality trading and trading-like mechanisms. Wisconsin's water quality trading programs are growing rapidly, and I have conducted research and assisted students on understanding the dynamics of these programs.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Margerum conducted a study of Oregon watershed council capacity, stability and management in relation to nonprofit status. Study included a survey of 60+ watershed council coordinators in collaboration with the Network of Oregon Watershed Councils. The survey has been followed up by approximately 20 interviews with coordinators.</li><br /> </ul>

Publications

<p><strong>Publications </strong></p><br /> <p><strong><em>Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (published)</em></strong></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Brock, Caroline, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, and Linda S. Prokopy. " Bridging the Divide: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Sector Agricultural Professionals Working with Amish and Mennonite Producers on Conservation." Environmental Management.&nbsp; 61(5): 756-771.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="2"><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E., Floress, K., Prokopy, L.S. (2019). Introduction to Special Issue: Catalyzing Change. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 161 (1).</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="3"><br /> <li>Byrd, ES*, NJO Widmar, BM Gramig. "Presentation Matters: Number of Attributes Presented Impacts Estimated Preferences." Agribusiness: an International Journal 34(2):377-389, 2018. (Grad student co-author*)</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="4"><br /> <li>Church, Sarah P., Nick Babin, Belyna Bentlage, Michael Dunn, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Pranay Ranjan, Joe Magner, Eileen McLellan, Susi Stephan, Mark Tomer, Linda S. Prokopy. The Beargrass Story: Utilizing social science to evaluate and learn from the watershed approach.&nbsp; Journal of Contemporary Water Resources and Education (167):78-96.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="5"><br /> <li>Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Banerjee, S., &amp; Burbach, M. (2019). Encouraging farmers participation in the Conservation Stewardship Program: A field experiment. Ecological Economics, 161, 130-143.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="6"><br /> <li>Doering, O, B Gramig and Jeong*. Economic and Policy Implications of Nitrogen Management. Soil Nitrogen Uses and Environmental Impacts, Advances in Soil Science: Soil Nitrogen volume, eds. R. Lal and B.A. Stewart. CRC Press, Taylor &amp; Francis Group: 2018 (Grad student co-author*)</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="7"><br /> <li>Eaton, W. M., F. R., Eanes, J. D., Ulrich-Schad, M., Burnham, S. P., Church, J. Arbuckle, J. Cross. 2019. Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes. Society &amp; Natural Resources, 32(7), 827-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1568653</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="8"><br /> <li>Floress, K., Thompson, A.W., &amp; Fisher, C.L. (2019). Assessing principles of good governance: The case of Lake Wausau, Wisconsin. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 161(1).</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="9"><br /> <li>Gardezi, M. and J.G. Arbuckle. 2019. The influence of objective and perceived adaptive capacities on Midwestern farmers use of cover crops. Weather, Climate, and Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0086.1">https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0086.1</a>.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="10"><br /> <li>Gardezi, M. and J.G. Arbuckle. 2019. Techno-optimism and farmers attitudes toward climate change adaptation. Environment and Behavior. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916518793482">https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916518793482</a>.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="11"><br /> <li>Gardezi, M. and J.G. Arbuckle. 2019. Spatially Representing Vulnerability to Extreme Rain Events Using Midwestern Farmers' Objective and Perceived Attributes of Adaptive Capacity. Risk Analysis. 39(1):17-34 DOI: 10.1111/risa.12943</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="12"><br /> <li>Gramig, BM and NJO Widmar. "Farmer Preferences for Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration Schemes." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 40(3):502-521, 2018.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="13"><br /> <li>Haigh, T., Schacht, W., Knutson, C.L., Smart, A.J., Volesky, J., Allen, C., Hayes, M., &amp; Burbach, M. (2019). Socioecological determinants of drought impacts and coping strategies for ranching operations in the Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology &amp; Management, 72, 561-571.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="14"><br /> <li>Jackson-Smith, D., S. Ewing, A. Sigler, C. Jones, and A. Armstrong*. 2018. The road less travelled: assessing the impacts of farmer and stakeholder participation in groundwater nitrate pollution research. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 73(6):610-622. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.73.6.610">https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.73.6.610</a></li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="15"><br /> <li>Kaufman, E. K., Kennedy, R. E., &amp; Cletzer, D. A. (2019). Understanding the Nature of EcoLeadership: A Mixed Methods Study of Leadership in Community Organizations. Journal of Contemporary Water Research &amp; Education, 167(1), 33-49. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2019.03310.x+D4+D5">https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2019.03310.x+D4+D5</a></li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="16"><br /> <li>Lee, D., J.G. Arbuckle, Z. Zhu, and *L. Nowatzke. 2019. Conditional Causal Mediation Analysis of Factors Associated with Cover Crop Adoption in Iowa, USA. Water Resources Research. 54(11):9566-9584 https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR022385</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="17"><br /> <li>Owley, Jessica, Federico Cheever, Adena R. Rissman, M. Rebecca Shaw, Barton H. Thompson, Jr., and W. William Weeks. 2018. Climate change challenges for land conservation: rethinking conservation easements, strategies &amp; tools. Denver University Law Review. 95:727-780</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="18"><br /> <li>Prokopy, L. S., Floress, K., Arbuckle, J. G., Church, S. P., Eanes, F. R., Gao, Y., &amp; Singh, A. S. (2019). Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 74(5), 520+D4+D5</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="19"><br /> <li>Ranjan, P., C.B. Wardropper, F. Eanes, S. Reddy, Y. Masuda, L. Prokopy. 2019. Understanding barriers and opportunities for adoption of conservation practices on rented cropland. Land Use Policy. 80, 214-223. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.039</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="20"><br /> <li>Roesch-McNally, G., J.G. Arbuckle, J. Benning, L.W. Morton and A. Wilke. 2019. University extension communities of practice: Learning, communicating, and engaging on climate change adaptation and mitigation in the United States Corn Belt. Pp. 180-193, In: Lachapelle, P., &amp; D. Albrecht. (Eds.), Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States. New York: Routledge.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="21"><br /> <li>Singh, Ajay S., Brian MacGowan, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Michael O Donnell, Heidi Klotz, and Linda S. Prokopy. &nbsp; The influence of demonstration sites and field days on conservation practices adoption. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 73(3): 274-281.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="22"><br /> <li>Sliwinski, M., Burbach, M.E., Powell, L., &amp; Schacht, W. (2018). Factors influencing ranchers intentions to manage for vegetation heterogeneity and promote cross-boundary management in the northern Great Plains. Ecology &amp; Society, 23 (4):45.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="23"><br /> <li>Sliwinski, M., Burbach, M.E., Powell, L., &amp; Schacht, W. (2018). Ranchers&rsquo; perceptions of vegetation heterogeneity in the Northern Great Plains. Great Plains Research, 28, 185-197.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="24"><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B., A. R. Rissman. 2019. Adaptations to extreme storm events by conservation organizations. Climatic Change, 152(1), 85-101. doi: 10.1007/s10584-018-2342-8</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="25"><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B., S. Gillon, A.R. Rissman. 2018. Innovation in outcomes-based water quality policy: A case study from the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Case Studies in the Environment, doi: 10.1525/cse.2018.001222</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="26"><br /> <li>Wardropper, C.B. 2018. Environmental performance information use by conservation agency staff. Environmental Management, 61 (4), 563-576. doi: 10.1007/s00267-017-0990-5</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="27"><br /> <li>Yun, SD and BM Gramig. "Agro-Climatic Data by County: A Spatially and Temporally Consistent U.S. Dataset for Agricultural Yields, Weather and Soils." Data 4(2):66, 2019.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>Technical Reports</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J. Gordon Jr. 2019. Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll: 2018 Summary Report. Extension Report SOC3090. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Extension.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <ol start="2"><br /> <li>Nowatzke, Laurie and J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr. 2018. Iowa Farmers and the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy: Survey Results from the Missouri-Little Sioux Watershed. SOC 3087. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Our Multi-State Committee has had many accomplishments and reached many milestones over the past year. Our accomplishments report is organized by PI and organization below.</p><br /> <p>C. Wardropper at Idaho State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I completed a project on barriers and motivations to cover crop adoption in the inland PNW. One paper in review and one in submission from that work. CIG grant for iPNW wheat growing region using my lab's social science data was submitted last week.</li><br /> <li>I'm writing a review paper on best practices for online survey research for conservation with Ashley Dayer and Vicki Martin</li><br /> <li>I'm leading the effort to assess progress and compare state efforts for the Nutrient Reduction Strategies. The group would have presented at UCOWR - maybe will do so in the fall. Planning a manuscript.</li><br /> <li>I was just awarded an EPA grant to assess risk perceptions and behaviors of citizen scientists conducting monitoring for mercury in Spokane and Boise river watersheds.</li><br /> <li>I am wrapping up data collection on barriers and opportunities for using climate decision support tools for rangeland management</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>K. Floress at USDA Forest Service reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I am part of Prokopy, et al (2019) team review of US ag BMP adoption studies</li><br /> <li>Floress, K - Senior Personnel on National Science Foundation Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems, 2016 -2021. $2.983,358. Climate change mitigation via reducing household food, energy, and water consumption: A quantitative analysis of interventions and impacts of conservation. Goal to test household interventions to reduce consumption of food, energy, and water.</li><br /> <li>Floress, K. &amp; Thompson, A. (Co-PIs). Ecobuffers: Part of a GLRI System of Solutions for Building Healthy Working Landscapes. Research Joint Venture Agreement, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and Purdue University.</li><br /> <li>Floress, Kristin M.; Gao, Yuling; Gramig, Benjamin M.; Arbuckle, J. Gordon; Church, Sarah P.; Eanes, Francis R.; Ranjan, Pranay; Singh, Ajay S.; Prokopy, Linda Stalker. 2019. Meta-analytic data from agricultural conservation practice adoption research in the United States 1982-2018. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 28 February 2020. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0011</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>L. Prokopy, P. Ranjan, A. Thompson, and E. Usher at Purdue University&nbsp;report accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>We are looking at the structural factors limiting or facilitating the adoption of natural infrastructure (wetlands, two-stage ditches, saturated buffers, oxbow restorations, etc.) in the agricultural landscape.</li><br /> <li>We have continued work on non-operating landowners and better understanding what motivates their engagement in conservation practices.</li><br /> <li>We finished the update to Prokopy et al. 2008 - a meta-review of all the US based literature on ag BMP adoption. Now we're working on additional questions from that dataset.</li><br /> <li>We finished the special issue focused on catalysts for change and published it in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education.</li><br /> <li>Ranjan, P., S.P. Church, J.G. Arbuckle, B.M. Gramig, C.J. Reeling, L.S. Prokopy. 2020. Conversations with non-choir farmers: Implications for conservation adoption. West Lafayette: Purdue University.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, L., J. Arbuckle, K. Floress, B. Gramig, S. Church, F. Eanes, Y. Gao, J. Lu, P. Ranjan, A Singh. Meta-Review of Barriers and Motivations for Farmers to Adopt Conservation Practices. SWCS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 31, 2019.</li><br /> <li>Prokopy, L., J. Arbuckle, S. Church, B. Gramig, C. Reeling, P. Ranjan. Assessing the strengths and limitations of voluntary conservation to modify agricultural practices. $100,000 (ISU $0). Walton Family Foundation. 1/1/19-12/31/19.This research conducted a series of focus groups with farmers to examine the following research questions: 1) What are viable strategies beyond what WFF is currently investing in to promote agricultural practices that reduce nutrient runoff? 2) How and under what conditions can policies help to change farmer and landowner behavior? What are potential barriers, particularly resistance from the agricultural sector? 3) What do Corn Belt farmers think about the limits to voluntary conservation? Do they see a need to think beyond voluntary conservation? 4) What suggestions do Corn Belt farmers have for how to motivate wide-spread adoption of conservation practices to improve water quality? 5) How could new policies and incentives be tied to existing funding streams (e.g., Farm Bill) or other financial incentives?</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>J. Arbuckle and A. Colletti and Iowa State University report accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Nowatzke, L., L. Abendroth, J. Arbuckle, J. Benning, Z. Zhu, G. Chighladze. Integrating Social and Biophysical Indicators of Nutrient Reduction Progress in Iowa Watershed Projects. $167,136. Iowa Nutrient Research Center. 7/1/2019 &ndash; 6/30/2021. This grant aims to address the research question: On a watershed project scale, what are the primary indicators for predicting nutrient reduction effectiveness? These indicators may fall into a variety of operational categories, including but not limited to availability of funding and financial incentives, participation by diverse stakeholder groups, extent of outreach work among farmers and the wider community, and the extent of agricultural conservation practice use.</li><br /> <li>Schulte-Moore, L., J.G. Arbuckle, R. Brown, E. Heaton. M. Helmers, A. Janke, K. Kimle, M. Liebman, M. McDaniel, J. Niemi, D. Wald. Initiative for Cultivating Human And Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (I‐CHANGE). $741,480. 2018 ISU Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (PIRI) Program. 9/2018 &ndash; 8/2021. The goal of this project is to catalyze and guide agricultural transformations from annual monoculture-predominant systems to diverse, heterogeneous systems that incorporate perennial crops to a greater degree. I am lead PI on the engagement and social science components of the project, which is conducting in-depth interviews to document stakeholder perspectives on potential pathways to and impacts of potential changes.</li><br /> <li>Robertson, A., M. Licht, J. Arbuckle, M. Castellano, L. Dong, B. Hartzler, E. Hodgson, A. Lenssen, M. McDaniel, T. Moorman, A. Plastina. Improving cereal rye cover crop BMPs to increase adoption of cover crops by Iowa farmers. $348,422 (Co-PI $7,545). Iowa Nutrient Research Center. 2018-2020. As lead social scientist on this project, I'm conducting survey research to learn more about farmers&rsquo; perspectives on cover crops use.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. and S. Upadhaya. Evaluation of the Impact of 4R Plus Programs in Iowa. The Nature Conservancy. $33,695. 5/11/2020-12/31/2020.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. Conservation Practitioner Poll. Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)/Walton Family Foundation. $32,925. 5/18/2020-8/01/2021.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. and S. Upadhaya Market Research to Support Cover Crops Outreach. $19,751. 6/15/2020 &ndash; 9/30/2020.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. (PI) and Zhengyuan Zhu. Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy Farmer Survey. Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. $299,990. 1/2015-6/2020.</li><br /> <li>Laurie Nowatzke and J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr. 2019. Iowa Farmers and the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy: Survey Results from the Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum Watershed. SOC 3091. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. (26 pp.)</li><br /> <li>Norton, M. and J. Arbuckle. Livestock Production, Water Scarcity, and Potential for Collaborative Water Governance in Northwest Iowa. SWCS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 30, 2019.</li><br /> <li>Morris, C. and J. Arbuckle. Do Conservation Plans Make a Difference in Practice Adoption?: Evidence from Iowa Farmers. SWCS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 30, 2019.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. &ldquo;Potential for Collaborative Drought Preparedness in Northwest Iowa.&rdquo; Northwest Iowa Drought Preparedness Workshop. Sheldon, IA, February 27, 2020.</li><br /> <li>Arbuckle, J.G. A brief history of adoption research: From hybrid corn to cover crops/Review of 35 years of conservation practice adoption research. Indiana Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting. Lafayette, IN, December 5, 2019.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>S. Gasteyer at Michigan State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I am doing work with Farmer-led conservation initiatives on adoption of conservation behavior.</li><br /> <li>I have a nascent project to understand drainage ditch monitoring systems to create better systems for information flow to farmers and land managers.</li><br /> <li>I work on structural factors of algae blooms and conservation</li><br /> <li>I work on cross-farmer led conservation initiatives to implement and track farm conservation measures.</li><br /> <li>I am developing a paper on lake associations in water quality protection.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>M. Davenport at University of Minnesota reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I am conducting tribally-driven collaborative transdisciplinary research on manoomin (wild rice) in western Great Lakes, surveys with harvesters, interviews on state-tribal consultation, participatory research on integration across knowledge forms. Most important outcomes have been partnerships with 4 tribes and two inter-tribal organizations and a model for responsible and respectful research with Indigenous nations. Just awarded NSF CNH2 grant.</li><br /> <li>I am engaged in groundwater and drinking water research on risk perception, communication and scenario planning. Surveys, interviews, and program evaluation in Minnesota and Iowa (with J. Arbuckle). Engaging multiple stakeholders in dialogue around water supply, climate change and risk.</li><br /> <li>I have developed an urban waters program examining water values and actions among Black,&nbsp; Indigenous and People of Color in the Twin Cities. Onsite surveys at community events, focus groups with community leaders. Documenting diverse voices in urban water management.</li><br /> <li>I am assisting Minnesota Environmental Quality Board on their 2020 Water Plan. Compiling social science in Minnesota on climate change and water impacts. Will guide multi-agency efforts and inform legislators on funding decisions.</li><br /> <li>I am assisting in MN Natural Resources Atlas (data mapping tool) project (UMD) conducting needs assessments with natural resource professionals on resource analysis and visualization. Conducting surveys and interviews on cultural resources and cultural resource mapping. Goal to form partnerships in data visualization for planning and decision making.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M.A. (2020). Agriculture and groundwater: The views of Minnesota farmers and livestock producers. St. Paul, MN: Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota. 2 p.</li><br /> <li>Davenport, M., J.G. Arbuckle, R. Arritt, K. Brauman, B. Keeler. Understanding and Building Capacity to Address Changing Water Availability in the Upper Corn Belt. $458,000 (ISU $155,000). NIFA-AFRI. 3/2017-2/2020. This project&rsquo;s goal is to better understand how planners, policy makers, and agricultural producers anticipate, respond, and adapt to changing water availability for agriculture in Iowa and Minnesota.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>S. Church at Montana State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>An article titled, "How water quality improvement efforts influence urban-agricultural relationships", is under review at Agriculture and Human Values. Co-authors included: Church, Floress, Ulrich-Schad, Wardropper, Ranjan, Eaton, Gasteyer, and Rissman. This is a policy analysis in which we investigate how different types of water quality interventions influence urban-agricultural relationships, specifically examining policy tools on a regulatory to voluntary spectrum.</li><br /> <li>This fall, Sarah Church will be leading a new watershed case study titled "Exploring the efficacy of the National Water Quality Initiative in Montana: Bridging divides to meet water quality and quantity goals". Through this project, we will study whether and how the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service National Water Quality Initiative, facilitated shared understanding and environmental learning, resulting in increased conservation behaviors, watershed health improvement/maintenance, and sustainable partnerships.</li><br /> <li>Sarah Church and her graduate student Ashlie Gilbert will be conducting an evaluation of the Big Sky Watershed Corps program in Montana. We will examine how Corps members influence change in their watersheds versus those without a Corps member.</li><br /> <li>Sarah Church and her graduate student Liam Bean will be examining eight different volunteer water monitoring programs in Montana to understand program typologies and their impacts on trust in data and behavior change.</li><br /> <li>Sarah Church is working on a project with graduate student, Ashlie Gilbert, on a survey to build a consensus list of wetland cultural and social ecosystem services.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>M. Burback and T. Haigh at University of Nebraska Lincoln report accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>The connection between drought early warning information and the timing of rangeland managers&rsquo; response actions is not well understood. This study investigated U.S. Northern Plains range and livestock managers&rsquo; decision-making in response to the 2016 flash drought, by means of a post drought survey of agricultural landowners and using the Protective Action Decision Model theoretical framework. The study found that managers acted in response to environmental cues, but that their responses were significantly delayed compared to when drought conditions emerged. External warnings did not influence the timing of their decisions, though on-farm monitoring and assessment of conditions did. Though this case focused only on a one-year flash drought characterized by rapid drought intensification, waiting to destock pastures was associated with greater losses to range productivity and health and diversity. This study found evidence of unrealized potential for drought early warning information to support proactive response and improved outcomes for rangeland management.</li><br /> <li>The resolution or mitigation of wicked water problems requires interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly from the social sciences, to foster new thinking, behavior, and innovative ideas for management of water resources under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty. To change behaviors, we have to understand how to train leaders in social science skills and evaluating success. This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education used case studies to demonstrate how social science concepts, theories, and methods are used to catalyze change across a range of water resource management issues and geographic scales. Supporting water management programs with information from the social sciences provides a framework for program design, implementation, and evaluation necessary for resolving wicked problems.</li><br /> <li>Managing water resources is increasingly complex and dynamic. Sustaining freshwater ecosystem services in the face of increasing challenges and emerging threats is a supreme leadership challenge. Leadership development program designers should look to social science theories and methods to prepare leaders to catalyze the change necessary to meet future challenges. This paper provides evidence that a new generation of water leaders is needed; and correspondingly, there is a need for new leadership development programs. The Nebraska Water Leaders Academy and its evaluation is presented as a case study of a successful program training leaders in social science-based skills in order to produce catalysts of change. The Academy is theoretically grounded in transformational leadership, champions of innovation, civic capacity, and entrepreneurial leadership. The Academy employs a process-based curriculum with developmental experiences that includes key components of assessment, challenge, and support. Formative assessment provides constructive feedback from participants and guides the development of future sessions and curriculum. Summative assessment is used to gauge participants&rsquo; leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors, and evaluate the instructional methods used in the Academy. Results of pre- and post-Academy assessments of participants from both the participants&rsquo; and raters&rsquo; perspectives indicate statistically significant increases in transformational leadership behaviors, champion of innovation behaviors, civic capacity, entrepreneurial leadership behavior, awareness of Nebraska water issues, and engagement with Nebraska water issues.</li><br /> <li>Sixteen participants completed the 2019 Water Leaders Academy bringing the total number of graduates to 136 since the inception of the program in 2011. Assessments of participants&rsquo; transformational leadership skills, champion of innovation skills, water knowledge, engagement with water issues, civic capacity, and entrepreneurial leadership behaviors showed significant increases over the course of the year, according to both the participants and their raters. Feedback from participants was highly positive and constructive. Academy planners are addressing participant concerns. Results of the program assessment indicate that the curriculum is meeting Academy objectives. Most importantly, alumni have emerged as leaders in their communities and around the world.</li><br /> <li>Burbach, M.E., Matkin, G.S., &amp; Joeckel, M. (2019). 2019 Nebraska Water Leaders Academy &ndash; Final report. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Open-File Report 207.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>D. Jackson-Smith at Ohio State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>DJS working with SESYNC pursuit group to develop interdisciplinary approach to modeling conservation behavior on private lands (ag/forest/range). Seeks to integrate economic, psychological, and sociological perspectives and key concepts. Paper drafts in process to (a) describe conceptual model, (b) highlight implications of model for design of policy interventions. Work began 2019 - continues through 2020.</li><br /> <li>DJS supervised MS student (Lourdes Arruetta) whose thesis research reviewed SWAT modeling literature to assess how they represented human behavioral heterogeneity (fertilizer application rates) in studies of ag water quality. Used data from farmer surveys and soil sampling datasets to test the sensitivity of SWAT model outputs in Maumee watershed to inclusion of info on behavioral and biophysical heterogeneity. Thesis defended early May 2020; paper manuscripts in process.</li><br /> <li>DJS worked with OSU interdisciplinary team on NSF-funded INFEWS project studying implications of deglobalization food, energy and water system in eastern corn belt/great lakes region. Team has developed future scenarios that capture changes in trade openness and sustainability policy, and nearly finished building suite of interconnected models to capture implications for broad range of sustainability outcomes. DJS led participatory modeling process that brought diverse stakeholders into project to advise and guide development of scenarios and models. Will hold workshop in spring 2021 with regional decision-makers/stakeholders to review model scenario results and discuss implications for local and state policy makers.</li><br /> <li>DJS helped lead several major grant submissions in spring 2020: (1) "Farmers &amp; Scientists: Developing a Shared Understanding of Soil Balancing's Impacts through Tiered Collaborative Research Approaches (USDA-OREI); (2) "Predicting and Preparing for Future Cropscapes" (USDA AFRI Foundational Research on Ag Systems); (3) "Beyond the Individual: Exploring the Role of Rural Landscape and Community Diversity in Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance" (USDA AFRI AMR); (4) "Comparing the Environmental Tradeoffs and Synergies of Alternative Modes of Integrating Livestock into Cash Grain Cropping Systems" (USDA AFRI IDEAS). Working on leading AFRI-SAS proposal on diversified farming systems in summer/fall.</li><br /> <li>Working w/ Peg Petrzelka on analysis of the role of landowner social and communities&rsquo; ties for conservation behavior by non-operating landowners. Will present at ISSRM 2020 (virtual conf)</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>R. Margerum at Oregon State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I am conducting a longitudinal study of watershed councils in Oregon with Dr. Dyana Mason (Nonprofit Management, UO); Dr. Stacy Rosenberg (OSU); and Dr. Zafar Khan (Visiting Fulbright Researcher, Karakoram International University, Gilgit, Pakistan).</li><br /> <li>I am conducting a Retrospective Capacity Evaluation Project of Oregon Watershed Councils (funded by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board). PIs: Emily Jane Davis (OSU), Rich Margerum (UO), Heidi Huber-Stearns (UO), and Anna Santos (UO)</li><br /> <li>Reported relevant data to Network of Oregon Watershed Councils (NOWC) to support programming and outreach work.</li><br /> <li>I made several presentations to Board of Network of Oregon Watershed Councils (NOWC).</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>W. Eaton, K.J. Brasier, and A.K. Chadhary at Pennsylvania State University report accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Water for Agriculture Project: A USDA NIFA funded multi- disciplinary, four-year collaborative research and engagement project that: &bull; Facilitates community-led stakeholder engagement to address water &amp; ag issues that matter most to them &bull; Supports those teams with biophysical and social science research &bull; Studies what changes with individuals, groups, communities, and the environment through the engagement process The project is currently active with stakeholder groups in 5 sites in AZ, NE and PA. The social science component collects data pre, during, and post engagements, using qualitative and quantitative methods. We are currently in the "during" phase and planning for post data collection. Numerous manuscripts are in progress.</li><br /> <li>Advancing scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement to address socio-environmental issues on working landscapes: A USDA funded workshop This June 2021 workshop will convene a multidisciplinary group of researchers, community stakeholders, practitioners, students, funders and policy makers to discuss the design and impacts of stakeholder engagement to address socio-environmental problems in working landscapes. Our goals are to identify: 1) the state of research on engagement; 2) gaps in our understanding of engagement, its practice, and its outcomes; and 3) recommendations for innovative methods to identify best practices in the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement. Intended outcomes include a special issue of a journal on workshop themes and a collaboratively defined research agenda. The workshop will focus on engagement as means to address complex socio-environmental issues in agricultural working landscapes, including water quality and quantity, emerging contaminants, agricultural inputs, climate adaptation and vulnerability, changing land use, biodiversity, invasive species, and other challenges that threaten the health and livelihood of stakeholders, communities, and the environment.</li><br /> <li>FY2020 USGS 104b WATER RESOURCES INFORMATION-TRANSFER PROJECTS<br /> Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center<br /> PROJECT TITLE: Meeting Local Needs: Engagement and Coordination to Address Water and Agriculture in Pennsylvania</li><br /> <li>The USGS grant funds stakeholder led water sampling in Triple Divide region of N Pennsylvania</li><br /> <li>Part of a transdisciplinary USDA-NIFA SAS project titled "Thriving Agricultural Systems in Urbanized Landscapes" which seeks to create economically thriving and environmentally beneficial systems in urbanized landscapes. As one part of this project, we are looking at how technical service providers engage with producers to promote adoption of conservation practices.</li><br /> <li>Part of the NSF funded working group for the National Collaborative for research on food, energy, and water education (NC FEW) where we are assessing how FEW concepts are integrated into the non-formal and informal educational settings.</li><br /> <li>CO-PI on a Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture funded project where we are surveying producers in Pennsylvania to document non-cost share BMPs adopted by producers to get credit in EPA 2025 TMDL for Pennsylvania.</li><br /> <li>A seed project understating the adoption of BMPs among producers and trying to develop the differences among producers who are more progressive and less progressive to adoption of BMPs among producers.</li><br /> <li>A seed project understanding how drinking water quality affect human and animal health among Plain communities in Pennsylvania.</li><br /> <li>Brasier, Kathryn, Weston M. Eaton, Walt Whitmer, Mark Burbach, et al. Webinar. &ldquo;From Knowledge to Understanding: Lessons Learned from Integrating Research and Stakeholder Engagement in a Water &amp; Agriculture Project. A Panel Discussion&rdquo; Univ. of Washington EarthLab's "Collaborating Across Difference" series (via Zoom). May 12, 2020. Online: <a href="https://water4ag.psu.edu/presentations/from-knowledge-to-understanding/">https://water4ag.psu.edu/presentations/from-knowledge-to-understanding/</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>J. Schad at Utah State University reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>As part of a 3 year USDA-NIFA grant, Dr. Schad completed a survey of South Dakota cattle producers who graze their cattle to gather information on how they make decisions about using or not using parasiticides to control internal parasites. One paper using this survey data on grazers' intentions to convert cropland to grassland will be submitted during the winter.</li><br /> <li>As part of a 2 year project funded by the South Dakota Nutrient Research Education Council, Dr. Schad surveyed South Dakota corn, wheat, and soybean producers in the eastern part of the state about their nutrient management practices and attitudes. One paper using the theory of planned behavior to predict conservation practice usage will be submitted during the winter.</li><br /> <li>I am working on a systematic review paper of non-operating landowners that will be submitted in the fall.</li><br /> <li>A co-author on a submitted paper titled "Spatially mediated peer effects in the adoption of conservation agriculture practices: Evidence from the U.S" to the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Data was collected from SD producers in 2018.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>K. Stephenson at Virginia Tech reports accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Chesapeake Bay Program workshops to improve the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of nonpoint source control efforts: Zach Easton and K. Stephenson conducted a workshop November 2019 to evaluate the potential to improve the cost effectiveness of nonpoint source policy through improved targeting the type and placement of best management practices (BMPs). Targeting also includes identifying and engaging land managers with low nutrient use efficiencies (high potential nutrient losses). This workshop investigated both techniques/methods to identify high loss areas and treatment effectiveness as well incentive designs that reward and direct participants to identify and treat these high loss areas. The workshop publication was released March 2020. Findings on the incentive programs for targeting was presented at the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium in an organized session, June 9, 2020.</li><br /> <li>Pay for Demonstrated NPS Nutrient Reductions: This past year work has been conducted investigating the potential of using pay-for-performance incentive designs to treat legacy nitrogen. Large quantities of N (nitrate) are temporarily stored in groundwater systems in many areas of the Chesapeake Bay. Most of these areas are associated with intensive agricultural uses. This legacy nitrogen is discharged to surface waters through springs and seeps. A NIFA funded project is examining whether certain types of treatment systems (bioreactors) can be coupled with pay-for-performance incentives to cost effectively treat this legacy N source. The project team (Stephenson, Co-PI) has worked with the state of VA and the Chesapeake Bay Program to allow direct monitoring and quantification of removal effectiveness for TMDL compliance. A paper was also presented that compared effectiveness, cost, and incentives of treating legacy nitrogen with conventional agricultural BMPs. Existing water quality program structures based on practice implementation present numerous challenges to recognizing and incentivizing people to pay for demonstrated outcomes (rather than just provide technical and financial incentive to implement a BMP and get default reduction credits for installation)</li><br /> <li>Chesapeake Bay Program's Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) "Scientific Gap Analysis" STAC is undergoing an effort to identify the scientific knowledge gaps and uncertainties to achieving Chesapeake Bay water quality standards. Chesapeake Bay states are required to meet N, P, and sediment reduction goals set out in the TMDL (the most expansive in the country) by 2025. A significant portion of the report is being devoted to nonpoint sources and management efforts. Achieving nutrient reduction goals rests almost exclusively with nonpoint sources, particularly agriculture. Ag is the largest contributor of nutrients to the Bay and has yet to reach its sector reduction targets. Furthermore, there is no strong evidence that the actions that have been taken are producing the expected water quality outcomes.</li><br /> <li>A Chesapeake Bay Program workshop was funded for 2020-21. The goal of the workshop, "Overcoming the Hurdle: Addressing Implementation of Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) Through a Social Science Lens", is to investigate opportunities for improving the adoption of agricultural BMPs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Stephenson serves on the workshop steering committee.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>A. Rissman, K. Genskow, A. Mase, and B. Shaw at University of Wisconsin Madison report accomplishments including,</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Sustaining food, energy, and water security in agricultural landscapes of the Upper Mississippi River Basin. INFEWS (Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water). National Science Foundation. Aims to examine the effects of shocks and stressors on food, water, bioenergy, and biodiversity habitat in the upper Midwest, particularly Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.</li><br /> <li>Assessing and improving spatial, temporal, and functional fit between water quality problems and policy interventions. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant project focused in the Great Lakes basin, Northeast Lakeshore of Wisconsin. We will develop quantitative indicators and nuanced narratives on how well water quality institutions are tailored to the a) spatial, b) temporal and c) functional processes of hydro-agro-ecosystems. We will also synthesize potentially diverse social perceptions of fit among agronomists, farmers, soil and water conservationists, local citizens groups, and state and federal regulators. Identifying important gaps will then lead to discussions with stakeholders about innovative approaches. We will focus on Wisconsin&rsquo;s northeast lakeshore draining into Lake Michigan.</li><br /> <li>Grasslands 2.0: an agroecological transformation plan for perennial grassland agriculture. SAS-CAP, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Rissman leads the governance team to conduct research to better understand participant mental models of transitions to grazing and grassland including barriers and pathways to transitions in agri-social-ecological-technical systems and governance system leverage points for behavior, policy, and system change. Outcomes will include a clearinghouse of existing policy materials for decision makers.</li><br /> <li>Conservation and succession success for farm and woodland owners, U.S. Department of Agriculture NIFA Award with a focus on new landowners. Conducting research and supporting outreach to new landowners including forestry, grazing, stream and lakeshore and water quality with a focus in Wisconsin.</li><br /> </ul>

Publications

Impact Statements

1. Recommendations for crediting spring bioreactors for Chesapeake Bay TMDL compliance were tentatively approved by the Chesapeake Bay Program based partly on comments provided by the Virginia Tech bioreactor project team.

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Participants

Aaron Thompson (Purdue)
Stephen Gasteyer (Michigan State U)
J. Arbuckle (Iowa State U)
Tonya Haigh (U Nebraska-Lincoln)
Kristin Floress (USFS)
Doug Jackson-Smith (Ohio State U)
Mae Davenport (U Minnesota)
Anil Kumar Chaudhary (Penn State)
Emily Usher (Purdue)
Jessica Schad (Utah State U)
Sarah Roth (UMN)
Ronald Cossman (Miss State)
Yu Lu (UW-Madison)
Jeff Peterson (UM/NIFA Hatch)

Brief Summary of Minutes

August 24, 2021

Hatch group NC1190 meeting minutes

 Agenda

1. a) update each other on work; 


2. b) talk through the new proposal and implications; 


3. c) talk about ongoing and new initiatives – including an update on accomplishments and plans; 


4. d) set goals for next year; 


5. e) elect new officer


6. f) decide on where and when we will meet next year (IN PERSON)!!!

Note-taker: Chloe Wardropper 

Current leadership: Stephen Gasteyer (Chair and host), Mae Davenport (Vice-Chair), Chloe Wardropper (Secretary)

1. We discussed our work from the past year and prepared impact statements (see Accomplishments and Impacts sections). 


2. We then discussed the new proposal that was approved and set goals for the next year, below.


3. We did not elect a new Secretary - that needs to be done ASAP.


4. Finally, we will meet next year in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Tentative dates are June 15-17, 2022.

Notes on new objectives:

Objective 1. Empirically test already developed typologies of catalysts for change in conservation behavior, resource management and governance in a water context to determine the mechanisms and conditions by which catalysts are translated into individual, collective, and institutional action. 

Further describe objective

• Develop Obj. 2 first, potentially get funding to further test

Potential synergistic activities

• Wait for Obj 2 and 3, then initiate conversations about some coordinated data collection and analysis work we might facilitate across our states

Interested people: Adena

 

Objective 2. Understand and develop conceptual frameworks, typologies, and analytical models of individual, institutional, and collective actions and link these to social and ecological outcomes. 

Further describe objective

• Frameworks describing interactions of individuals, society, institutions related to water decision-making and action have been developed in the past.




• Examples: A Typology of Catalyst Events for Collaborative Watershed Management in the United States


• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2014.918230


• https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/a-multilevel-community-capacity-model-for-sustainable-watershed-m 


• Most empirical studies of catalysts have been conducted as case studies at local levels, with few meso- or macro-level studies.

Potential synergistic activities

• Work group to assess which facets of past frameworks (starting with Catalyst model) have been studied empirically. What are the gaps? What is the future?




• Trouble current frameworks. Is a collaborative model still useful in a polarized democracy? 




• Monthly workgroup meetings focusing on a different framework/facet. One person presents per meeting (potential reading assignment)


• Work towards updated shared model(s) that could guide future data collection planning (for objective 1)


• Highlight dynamic aspects - including adaptive responses through time (to articulate to Obj 3)


• Discuss interactions between water quality and quantity management 


• Consider working towards NSF RCN or other funding source to support coordinated data collection and analysis/collaborations

Leadership

• Chloe, Anil, and Doug can co-organize, Adena

 

Objective 3. Identify, develop, and evaluate adaptive strategies to achieve desired actions and capacities to protect water resources. 

Further describe objective

• Water systems are changing dramatically. Many in our group work on issues of adaptation.


• Opportunities for comparison

Potential synergistic activities

• Adaptation extreme water availability conditions - drought and increased precipitation; conditions to promote transformation vs. coping; tipping point/threshold of transformation; conflict theme; restoration as adaptation strategy; interactions with larger-scale structures/incentives; role of maladaption (Chloe, Tonya, Doug, Sarah, Stephen, Anil, Kristin


• Examine how collaborative models of decision-making (for adaptation) are evolving in watersheds / acknowledging differences in approaches / emergent criticism of collaboration and its impacts on adaptive processes


• Integration of indigenous perspectives and ways of doing in adaptation science -- importance of consideration of perspectives beyond agriculture


• Distributional implications of climate change impacts and adaptation, capacity for doing so

Leadership

Adaptation activity: Tonya, Stephen, Aaron

Objective 4: Assess the justice, equity, and inclusion dimension of water resources management and protection.

Further describe objective

• One sub-objective is to increase recruitment to the group, especially focused on inclusion of under-represented groups


• Justice, equity, and inclusion across the urban-rural spectrum




• Equity regarding septic system access 




• Participatory research and deliberative science. How does deliberative science improve process and outcomes? What are the process outcomes from collaborative science? Can we offer recommendations for others?




• Useful paper by Davis and Ramirez-Andreotta (2021: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/EHP6274 


• Mae’s new model of community analysis of scientific data


• Mae’s paper on collaboration with Tribal partners https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901120313599 


• Paper from Chloe and many others’ collaboration in a mining-impacted region: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02626667.2020.1808218 


• Sarah’s work on citizen/community science


• Work in PA with Amish and Mennonite communities 

Potential synergistic activities

• Monthly meetings - we’ll invite new people




• New people ideas: Doug’s SESYNC project; Wes and others led project on engaged research; Mae’s collaborators on the manomin project (e.g. Mike Dockry); Chloe’s collaborator from Coeur d’Alene tribe (Chris Meyer); Kyle Powyss Whyte (U of Michigan) has done a lot of work on collaboration; visiting Tribal scholar at UI (Shanny Spang Gion) 

Leadership

Mae & Sarah R. and Kristin

 

 

Accomplishments

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accomplishments by member:</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aaron Thompson</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funded project in Saginaw Bay integrating landscape design into agricultural buffers. The project is using USFS Ag Buffer Builder. Results suggest that enough land is out of production in the watershed to meet goals, but not in the riparian areas. Developing principles for good design into buffers. Collaborating with Kristin Floress.</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: Video game simulation project to teach about designing agricultural buffers.</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chloe Wardropper</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: MS student defended her thesis, and will work with Tanya Haigh at the NDMC.&nbsp;Her work was based on a&nbsp;national survey of risk perception and trust&nbsp;in government related to managing lead exposure in watersheds,&nbsp; Superfund sites, and domestic.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Output: Recent report for the Washington Department of Ecology on perceptions of riparian buffers among farmers and other landowners.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristin Floress</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: On national conservation behavior leadership team with USDA assessing precursors of agricultural conservation practice adoption and helping to inform assessments.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Working with Emily Huff to expand research related to agroforestry buffers&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: Publishing work from INFEWS grant: intervention messages that impact food, energy, and water actions in suburban households.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Working on Chicagoland conservation behaviors, esp. Related to flooding and WQ, conserrvation landscaping</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doug Jackson-Smith&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outputs: Several recent publications related to organic farmer antibiotic use and soil management, with particular focus on the practice of soil balancing&nbsp; - key themes and lessons relate to complexities of farmer decision making and use of science, role of traditional LGU research and extension in farm management decision-making.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Participated in NSF-SESYNC project to develop a multi-social science discipline integrated conceptual model to explain conservation behavior on private lands; conceptual framework paper currently under review, but builds on NC1190 catalyst/behavior models.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outputs: Recent publications out (and under review) on implications of inadequate representation of farmer fertilizer behavior in water quality models (e.g., SWAT), and demonstrated potential for using empirical data to ground assumptions about farmer fertilizer behavior in models.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Continued work on food-energy-water system linkages in eastern corn belt/great lakes (NSF)</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outputs: Conducted statewide farm poll in Ohio spring 2020 - focused on impacts of catalysts/shocks like extreme weather and trade wars in 2019 on farm and farm household adaptive behaviors and well being. Developed and disseminated a series of extension resources through project website: </span><a href="https://senr.osu.edu/ohiofarmpoll"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://senr.osu.edu/ohiofarmpoll</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activities: Submitted funding proposals (under review): related to agroforestry (w/ Kristin F, Adena R, and Emily H), farm diversification (AFRI/SAS); Circular economy/water systems in rust belt (USGS); building an on-farm research network (NCSARE); and to establish panel study to study farm resilience over time (USDA S&amp;M farms program).</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mae Davenport and Sarah Roth.</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity and output: Working with Tribes on wild rice conservation and management. Developed qualitative framework of meaningful collaboration. Have CNH grant, waiting to hear about NOAA climate adaptation sciences grant.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Agriculture and groundwater project in Minnesota and Iowa. Survey of farmers on risk perception and concerns about water supply. Irrigation may be an adaptation strategy.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Urban water justice project. Conducted surveys on water values and priorities for water management. Uplifting different voices in policy and planning in MN. Have a new LTER urban site, and Mae&rsquo;s role will be to track long-term effects of water/nature disparities on communities.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Found statistical diffs between white and BIPOC respondents on multiple items. Conducted focus groups to understand those results and changes needed for water justice.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Assessment of public-private partnerships - successes, lessons learned</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emily Usher, Linda Prokopy, Pranay Ranjan (Overview of Purdue NRSS lab)</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: ACPF (ag conservation planning framework). A decision-support tool for planning at farm and community-level. Assessing the tool through surveys, interviews, focus groups in 5 upper-Midwest states. Will be developing an implementation guide for NRCS. Additional funding secured for a second phase.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: (Pranay lead) Evaluating FRPP for NRCS. FRPP enables acquisition of agricultural easements. Will administer mail surveys.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: (Pranay and Emily) Working with TNC and General Mills - meta-analysis of characteristics of successful farmer-led learning networks.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Comparison of cover crop data using OPTIS satellite data and interviews to understand differences between county adoption rates.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ron Cossman</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Working with SeaGrant (</span><a href="https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/default/files/gems/ESLM-Salt-Marsh-Restoration.png"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/default/files/gems/ESLM-Salt-Marsh-Restoration.png</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) on social indicator planning and evaluation system and decision tree for ecosystem restoration (see </span><a href="https://h2o.ssrc.msstate.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://h2o.ssrc.msstate.edu/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Interested in creating indicators of grassroots environmental groups. What makes them viable? Can we track establishment, work, potential disbandment of groups over time?</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tonya Haigh</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: REcent pub: Typology of drought decision-making in journal Weather and Climate Extremes</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Midwest drought decisions for specialty-crop growers (e.g., irrigated potatoes, cranberries, grapes, apples)</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: At NDMC, portfolio on ranchers&rsquo; management of drought. Recently trying to assess what information ranchers are looking for. Created dashboard focused on questions and answers.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: NC climate and drought summary and outlook webinar series. Doing an evaluation of the webinar series (impact, use of information).</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">J. Arbuckle</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Iowa nutrient reduction strategy. Working with biophysical scientists to assess impacts of nutrient reduction practices</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Study on 4Rs+ with TNC and Practical Farmers of Iowa</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Walton family foundation-funded survey and focus groups of NR professionals in MRB related to what is working and not working in their jobs.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: MRB nutrient reduction strategies paper with multiple NC1190 members</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anil Kumar Chaudhary</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: EQIP assessment. Interviewing NRCS and other stakeholders about funding decisions, differences between farmers who have and have not participated in EQIP.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: NIFA SAS project: urbanized ag landscape, urban agriculture. Working on education and outreach, formal stakeholder analysis.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Penn Dept of Ag funded project: PA progress toward Chesapeake Bay TMDL. How are farmers writing and using conservation plans? What factors are associated with adoption of BMPs through use of conservation plans?</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Water for Ag project (led by Kathy Brasier, Wes Eaton). Wrapping up the project this next year.</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stephen Gasteyer</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Project funded by MI assoc of cons districts. Assessing willingness of different farmers in MI to engage with conservation. Want to better understand how to reach populations that don&rsquo;t often respond to surveys. Particularly focused on a MI Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program (</span><a href="https://maeap.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://maeap.org/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) which certifies farms for conservation best practice.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Drainage governance project with Landon and Pranay. Adaptation to higher precipitation is more tiling. Describing drainage policies across states.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Drainage ditch monitoring with biophysical scientists. Then using data to talk to farmers.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: PFAS contamination of surface water. Under what conditions do groups emerge to address emerging surface water contaminants?&nbsp;</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Pasternack</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: One of my research sponsors is Yuba Water Agency, who operates a variety of water/river facilities to supply water to agricultural and municipal users in Yuba County, California. I help them develop solutions to a variety of human-ecological-physical river problems they need addressed, including habitat enhancement and river restoration among others. I also participate in the monthly &ldquo;managers&rdquo; meeting of the Yuba Accord stakeholders group that includes NGOs, state and federal agencies, and &ldquo;industry&rdquo; (YWA, PG&amp;E, and USACE).</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: This year we have been adding a new algorithm to our </span><a href="https://riverarchitect.github.io"><span style="font-weight: 400;">River Architect software on Github</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that produces maps of suitable cottonwood recruitment locations on rivers. River Architect as a whole evaluates geomorphic sustainability, ecological functionality, and economic cost of river projects. Hoping to find others to collaborate with on new ideas/tools to add to this platform.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: Beginning in spring 2021 I started going around the state of California recording videos of all the different kinds of rivers based on the new classification a team of us has developed. I am producing the videos and posting them to YouTube on my </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAZOB4DrcgfBmH3PtySSJew"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RiverSciLife channel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It is hard to find time to do the production work, so I have a backlog, but after the wildfires abate I plan to head back out to record more videos.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: One last note. This summer I became an advisor to the PhD Program about &ldquo;Human River Systems in the 21st century (HR21)&rdquo; at BOKU in Vienna, Austria. I am heading there for the second half of September to collaborate and help with the students. They have a really good team of people spanning social and natural sciences working on rivers for the benefit of Austria, so it is interesting to learn from their model.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Burbach.</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: On-going program evaluation of the Nebraska Water Leaders Academy shows that Academy alumni have emerged as leaders in their communities and with the knowledge and skills to drive innovative approaches to water management in Nebraska.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: In a laboratory experiment, Dr. Burbach and colleagues found that information, communication, and empowerment resulted in decreases in groundwater extraction and increases in irrigation profits over nine-year extraction horizons. Enhanced information and communication also increased the fraction of subjects who voted for and complied with collective action in the form of quotas on pumping levels.</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adena Rissman</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Research on grassland and managed grazing policy and governance with USDA Grassland 2.0 SAS-CAP grant on grassfed milk and meat in the upper Midwest. Research includes what a just transition to grazing looks like, and an understanding of coalitions between grassland conservation and sustainable agriculture communities.</span></li><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Participating in an NSF INFEWS grant FEWscapes on water quality, water quantity, agriculture, forestry and biofuels in the upper Midwest. We will be doing a policy actor and farmer survey.</span></li><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: I serve as the university representative on the WI Council on Forestry which is a multistakeholder forestry group advising the DNR and legislature</span></li><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACtivity: Research and stakeholder engagement on the social dimensions of spatial, temporal and functional fit with water quality institutions on a UW Sea Grant project</span></li><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Continuing research on a USDA Small and Medium Sized Farms grant with outreach to new landowners</span></li><br /> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Contributed to a USDA proposal on agroforestry with Doug, Kirsten, and Emily Huff</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Schad</span></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: As part of external evaluation role for SAS grant led by PSU, conducted an online panel survey of Chesapeake Bay Watershed (CBW) residents on their awareness and views of water quality in the CBW and locally, perceptions of causes of water quality issues, views on how water quality issues should be addressed, and what they see as the role/future of agriculture in an urbanized area; we will be conducting a similar survey in 4-5 years to examine change over time; we will also conduct a farmer survey on similar issues in coming months as well as the follow-up in 4-5 years</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity and output: Conducted a follow-up survey on South Dakota farmers who took a 2018 survey on their conservation practice usage and attitudes; we were able to get about 350 of the 700 farmers to take the follow-up survey; we are currently working on &ldquo;one-pagers&rdquo; to make available to the public on SDSU Open Prairie and will be sending out postcards to our 2018 sample notifying them of their presence</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Leading a manuscript (with many NC1190 members) that outlines some of the commonly used sources for samples in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., as well as provide an assessment of the quality of sources and discussion of when they are appropriate to use</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Papers in various stages of publication including one using the theory of planned behavior to look at adoption of conservation tillage in South Dakota; a review of non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners in the U.S. and Europe; South Dakota farmer usage of nitrogen fertilizer best management practice;, testing modified sense of place measures and cover crop usage on working landscapes in Iow;, sense of place and responsibility among South Dakota farmers and their usage of diversified crop rotations; and understanding South Dakota livestock grazers&rsquo; usage of parasiticides</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Kurt&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Output: Co-organized a workshop on barriers and strategies to enhance BMP adoption in the Chesapeake Bay Program, funded by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Program.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Co-leading a comprehensive review of the Chesapeake Bay Program&rsquo;s progress to achieve water quality standards in the Chesapeake Bay. The review includes an analysis of the gaps and uncertainties in the implementation of the nutrient and sediment reduction strategies/management actions with a focus on agricultural and urban nonpoint sources.&nbsp; The Chesapeake Bay Program&rsquo;s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee is conducting the review.</span></li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Sarah Church</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: As a co-PI on a USGS 104b grant, we are developing a social and cultural ecosystem service (ES) module to include in a tool to rapidly assess wetlands, streams, and riparian buffers in the Western US. My team administered the first round of an online Delphi survey to aquatic systems experts in several western states (MT, ID, WA, CO, SD) (n=179). The primary purpose of the survey is to build a consensus list of cultural, provisioning, and regulating ES to include in a rapid assessment tool. In addition to ES questions, we asked about respondents&rsquo; perceptions of different components of wetland protection, including public access, public and wetland-decision makers&rsquo; understanding of wetland ecosystem services, collaborative planning processes, communication between different scales of government agencies, federal and state policies, and local government land-use decisions and processes. We will administer the second round survey in October 2021.</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: Through a collaboration with the Montana Conservation Corps, my team administered an online survey (n=79) to all watershed groups and Conservation Districts in Montana and are currently conducting interviews throughout the state (a second survey will be administered in October 2021). We are trying to understand the role of Big Sky Watershed Corps (BSWC) members in increasing their host-sites&rsquo; capacity to achieve environmental outcomes and whether adaptive co-management is occurring in Montana.&nbsp;</span></li><br /> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity: I am currently completing two manuscripts. One is an examination of&nbsp; the impacts of United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) Water (2001-2013) and Climate (2010-2015) funded projects that supported research, education, and extension programs related to climate and water issues on working lands. For this paper we report on whether/how co-produced research (between project directors and stakeholders) increase community adaptive capacity. The second paper reports results of a Delphi survey process in which my team asked government staff working in water, what water priorities USDA-NIFA should fund in the future.</span></li><br /> </ul>

Publications

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rissman, Adena R. and Chloe Wardropper. 2021. Adapting conservation policy and management to climate change and nonstationarity. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Society and Natural Resources</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 34 (4), 524-537 DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2020.1799127</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Church, Sarah P., Kristin Floress, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Chloe B. Wardropper, Pranay Ranjan, Weston M. Eaton, Stephen Gasteyer, Adena R. Rissman. 2021.&nbsp; How water quality improvement efforts influence urban&ndash;agricultural relationships. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agriculture and Human Values. </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">38(2): 481-498</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">DOI: 10.1007/s10460-020-10177-8</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wardropper C.B., J.P. Angerer, M. Burnham, M.E. Fern&aacute;ndez-Gim&eacute;nez, V.S. Jansen, J.W. Karl, K. Lee, K. Wollstein. (2021). Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science. In special issue on Climate Decision Making in </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Current Opinion Environmental Sustainability</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 52, 82-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.07.001</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weigel, C., S. Harden, Y. Masuda, C.B. Wardropper, P. Ferraro, L. Prokopy, S. Reddy. (2021). Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conservation Letters</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. e12803. doi: 10.1111/conl.12803</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavoie, A. and C.B. Wardropper. (2021). Engagement with conservation tillage shaped by &ldquo;good farmer&rdquo; identity. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agriculture and Human Values</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. doi:10.1007/s10460-021-10205-1</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooper, C.M., M.S. Goebel*, V.T. Wade, C.B. Wardropper. (2021). Challenges and Opportunities for Communicating Lead Exposure Risks in Idaho&rsquo;s Silver Valley. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Case Studies in the Environment</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 5(1). doi:10.1525/cse.2021.1232759</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Masuda, Y.J., S.C. Harden, P. Ranjan, C.B. Wardropper, C. Weigel, P.J. Ferraro, S.M.W. Reddy, L.S. Prokopy. (2021). Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin? </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 76 (1) 5A-9A; doi: 10.2489/jswc.2021.1109A</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavoie, A., Dentzman, K., C.B. Wardropper. (2021). Using diffusion of innovations theory to understand agricultural producer perspectives on cover cropping in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 1-12. doi:10.1017/S1742170520000423</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Awad, K., A. Maas, C.B. Wardropper. (2021). Preferences for alternative water supplies in the Pacific Northwest: A Discrete Choice Experiment. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 147(4): 04021007. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001342</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eaton, W.M., Brasier, K.J., Burbach, M.E., Whitmer, W., Engle, E.W., Burnham, M., . . . Weigle, J. (2021). A conceptual framework for social, behavioral, and environmental change through stakeholder engagement in water resource management. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Society &amp; Natural Resources, 34, </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">1111-1132.</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Figueiredo Silva, F. Perrin, R.K., Fulginiti, L.E., &amp; Burbach, M.E. (2021). Does engagement improve groundwater management? </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Water Economics and Policy</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">7</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2), 2150008.</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dx.doi.org_10.1142_S2382624X21500089-3Futm-5Fsource-3Dwspc-5Fmail-5Flist-26utm-5Fmedium-3Demail-26utm-5Fcampaign-3Drepr-5FWEP-5F140721&amp;d=DwMDaQ&amp;c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&amp;r=eREytjJVjVkMmuXyFGENAcZ7NA3c-gOxkU65I1jrgJ8&amp;m=ccdezyhBb-4xuhJDGDx72rhXFZ-1iOw_IRnBWT99clk&amp;s=QmjCyeQAZWaXsKCIyYXKLTRhD32CTzrZHdjx5dJjNi4&amp;e="> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https:///dx.doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X21500089</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delozier, J., &amp; Burbach, M.E. (2021). Boundary spanning: Its role in trust development between stakeholders in integrated water resource management</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 3,</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 100027.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100027"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100027</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smith, K.H., Burbach, M.E., Hayes, M.J., Guinan, P.E., Tyre, A.J., Fuchs, B., and Haigh, T. (2021). Whose ground truth is it? Harvesting lessons from Missouri&rsquo;s 2018 bumper crop of drought observations. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weather, Climate, and Society, 13</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 227-244.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0140.1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0140.1</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haigh, T., Hayes, M., Smyth, J., Prokopy, L., Francis, C., &amp; Burbach, M. (2021). Ranchers&rsquo; use of drought contingency plans in protective action decision making. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rangeland Ecology &amp; Management, 74, 50-62</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2020.09.007"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2020.09.007</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kennedy, S.M., &amp; Burbach, M.E. (2020). Great Plains ranchers managing for vegetation heterogeneity: A multiple case study. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Great Plains Research</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">30</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2), 137-148.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2020.0016"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2020.0016</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sprunger, C., S. Culman, L. Deiss, C. Brock, and D. Jackson-Smith. 2021. Which management practices influence soil health in Midwest organic corn systems? Agronomy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20786.&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p>Culman, S., C. Brock, D. Doohan, D. Jackson-Smith, C. Herms, V.N. Chaganti, M. Kleinhenz, C.D. Sprunger, and J. Spargo. 2021. Base cation saturation ratios vs. sufficiency level of nutrients: a false dichotomy in practice. Agronomy Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20787&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brock, C., D. Jackson-Smith, S. Culman, C. Herms and D. Doohan. 2021. Organic corn production practices and profitability in the eastern Corn Belt. Sustainability 13: 8682.&nbsp; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168682&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kast, J*., M. Kalcic, R. Wilson, D. Jackson-Smith, and J. Martin. 2021. Evaluating the efficacy of targeting options for conservation practice adoption on watershed-scale phosphorus reductions. Water Research 201: 117373.&nbsp; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117375&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jackson-Smith, D. and H. Veisi. 2021. Media Coverage of a Pandemic's Impacts on Farmers and Implications for Agricultural Resilience and Adaptation. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.102.039&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brock, C.*, J. Pempek, D. Jackson-Smith. L. da Costa, and G. Habing. 2021. Organic dairy producer experiences and decisions on disease prevention and treatment. Journal of Dairy Science. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-19621&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brock, C.*, D. Jackson-Smith, S. Culman, D. Doohan, and C. Herms. 2020. &ldquo;Organic farmer and consultant conceptions of and experiences with soil balancing.&rdquo; Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10165-y&nbsp;</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brock, C.*, D. Jackson-Smith, S. Kumurappan, and S. Culman. 2020. The prevalence and practice of soil balancing among organic corn farmers.&rdquo; Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170520000381"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170520000381</span></a></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Saak, Alexander E., Tong Wang, Zheng Xu, Deepthi Kolady, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, and David E. Clay.&nbsp; 2021. &ldquo;Duration of Usage and Farmer Reported Benefits of Conservation Tillage.&rdquo; </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 71(1): 65-75.</span></p><br /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kolady, Deepthi, Weiwei Zhang, Tong Wang, and Jessica D. 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1. Church received $27,600 USGS 104b grant to examine how characteristics of volunteer monitoring programs (VWMP) influence diffusion of knowledge and trust in scientific data in Montana.

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