Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Current Competitive Grant

Exploring the role of multifunctional agriculture on the future of agriculture and rural development

NOTE: Work on this grant project has been completed and is awaiting a final report.

Project ID: XP2010-03

This 2-year grant for $65,000 was awarded in 2010.

Location: Iowa, Johnson counties

The project researchers intend to gain an understanding of the interplay between climate shifts and management practices as applied to the sustainability of healthy soils and the development of sound agricultural policies in the United States.

Thanos N. Papanicolaou

Thanos N. Papanicolaou Thanos N. Papanicolaou is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa as well as an Associate Research Engineer at IIHR- Hydroscience & Engineering. For the last 13 years, his research has focused on watershed dynamics in terms of their effects on soil and water quality, as well as the biota.

Co-Investigator(s):

Michael L. Thompson, Iowa State University Department of Soils and Agronomy

This competitive grant project is part of the Leopold Center's Cross-Cutting Initiative.

Topics: Conservation practices, Farming systems, Soils and agronomy, Watershed and ecoregion