Carbon Movement through Iowa Landscapes - The Models

October 2012

Research funded by NASA EPSCoR models how carbon moves through Clear Creek, a typical Midwestern watershed in eastern Iowa, with the goal of informing land management practices to create healthy soil, clean water and carbon sequestration. Graduate students Dimitrios Dermisis and Ken Wacha describe how the coupled WEPP and CENTURY models work. Filmed April 2012.

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