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## Research at the nexus of food-energy-water systems

# Kucharik Agroecology Lab

Our mission is to find ways to enhance the resiliency of ecosystems – and the services they provide – to drivers of global change.

Our research is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating field work and ecosystem modeling across a continuum of spatial scales. We have been developing new ecosystem modeling approaches for the past 15 years that combine the best of traditional crop modeling tools with state-of-the-art dynamic, process-based soil-plant-atmosphere models, and most recently 3-D groundwater modeling tools. This approach is designed to answer questions from the farm scale to regional scale pertaining to the impacts of climate change and land management on crop and biofuel production, greenhouse gas emissions, water quantity and quality, carbon and nutrient (N, P) cycling, and biogeophysical feedbacks to the climate system. Most recently, we have initiated studies of the Madison urban heat island to better understand its impact on urban ecology and society.

Yahara watershed of southern Wisconsin

# Useful Information

Kucharik Lab Weather Station

Water Sustainability and Climate Project

UW CALS

The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Wisconsin Ecology

Water@UW-Madison

# Recent Posts

- Graduate Project Assistant Opportunity in Agroecosystems and Nitrogen Cycling
- Post-doctoral Opportunity in Agroecosystem Modeling and Nitrogen Cycling
- Adam von Haden defends PhD, transitions to post doctoral position at Univ. of Illinois
- Mallika Nocco defends Ph.D., moves onto Smith Conservation Research Fellowship!
- Melissa Motew successfully defends Ph.D. dissertation!

## Graduate Project Assistant Opportunity in Agroecosystems and Nitrogen Cycling

Developing Nitrogen Decision Support Tools to Improve Water Quality in Wisconsin Dr. Christopher Kucharik, Professor and Chair in the Department of Agronomy at the University […]

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