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Name	Research Themes	Research Keywords	Research Topics	Research Overview	Researcher Department
Yong Cao	Water and Land Stewardship	stream ecology aquatic ecology multivariate analysis freshwater monitoring & bioassessment biodiversity evaluation	Water Resources Environment & Ecology Modeling Simulation & Prediction Systems	Aquatic ecology, multivariate analysis, freshwater monitoring & bioassessment, biodiversity evaluation, ecological data quality and comparability, long-term ecological changes, species-occurrence distribution modeling and climate-change impacts.	Illinois Natural History Survey
John Chick	Water and Land Stewardship	Large rivers Mississippi rivers Illinois rivers	Environment & Ecology	Focus on the ecology of large rivers, particularly the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Also interested in population dynamics and community level interactions of freshwater fishes, early life history stages of fishes, and general aquatic ecology. Especially interested in questions related to how spatial variability in aquatic ecosystems affects population and community level processes	Illinois Natural History Survey
Richard Cooke	Water and Land Stewardship	Water quality and management Drainage system optimizing	Environment & Ecology	Water quality and management. Current research includes, preferential flow paths in sludge amended soils; optimizing subsurface drainage system design.	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Bethany Cutts	Water and Land Stewardship	Urban water supply networked water governance	Social Science Infrastructure	Focuses on environmental justice, environmental policy, and the science-policy nexus. Has experience in thinking about sustainability and ecosystem service delivery in urban systems. Uses participatory mapping, social surveys, and social network analysis methods.	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
George Czapar	Water and Land Stewardship	Watershed science Water quality agriculture management practices agricultural best management practices nutrient standards	Social Science International Engagement	Water quality and water management; agronomy, agricultural impacts on water resources, best management practices to reduce nutrient and pesticide loss, farmer adoption of BMPs, nutrient standards.	Illinois State Water Survey
Mark David	Water and Land Stewardship	Environmental impacts of water quality Wetlands	Water & Energy Water & Food	Water/Biogeochemistry, Agronomy/Agroecology, Ecosystem Science, Forest Resources and Management, Soil Science and Conservation, Current lab research includes, environmental impacts of biofuels, water quality, nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemistry in agricultural landscapes, wetlands to remove nutrients.	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Mike Demissie	Water and Land Stewardship	watershed processes stream and river restoration watershed monitoring	Transport Processes	Focus on problem-solving of issues related to watershed processes and stream and river restoration. Watershed monitoring and land use evaluation of Lake Decatur and Vermilion River watersheds and an investigation on the impacts of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993.	Illinois State Water Survey
Timothy Ellsworth	Water and Land Stewardship	Soil Science and Conservation Water and Biogeochemistry	Systems	Fundamental areas of research are geostatistics, with special focus on sample design and decision support systems that exploit uncertainty estimation to optimize resource management, and soil physics (primarily water flow and chemical fate). The past several years has also been working as a team member to increase the sustainability of agricultural production systems by improved cropping practices and nutrient management.	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Jody Endres	Water and Land Stewardship	Law and Regulation at the nexus of the environment energy and agriculture Water quantity and quality standard-setting integrated	Social Science	Regulatory and other policy strategies to address water quality and quantity issues in agriculture and energy production, both domestically and internationally.	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Courtney Flint	Water and Land Stewardship	Water quality risks Reducing agricultural nitrate runoff Watershed Partnerships Stakeholder perspectives	Environment & Ecology Systems	Focuses on the decision making implications of rural stakeholders for community and regional well-being. Examines how perceptions of ecosystem services, water quality risks, and climate change influence resource management decisions. Lab has a variety of transdisciplinary, mixed methods projects underway including being engaged in a large project with biogeochemists and agricultural engineers to explore socio-economic dimensions of innovations to reduce agricultural nitrate runoff.	Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

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