Our research group at the University of Wisconsin is a widely-recognized program that has been and is currently funded by national agencies (including NSF, USDA, NASA and DOE), state level funding agencies such as the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Environmental and Economic Research Program (FOE-EERP), WI Department of Natural Resources, and the UW-Madison Graduate School, as well as donations/gifts from Madison Gas and Electric and the Barker Fund from the UW College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Below are our current projects and funding sources:

Creating a safe operating space for resilient food-energy-water systems in the Upper Midwest (UW Madison Bridge to the Future program) [2016-2017]

Simulating the effects of early agriculture on Holocene climate (National Science Foundation) [2016-2019]

Anticipating abrupt ecological change in the 21st century (UW2020) [2016-2018]

LTER: A comparative study of a suite of lakes in Wisconsin (National Science Foundation) [2014-2020]

Assessing the long run sustainability of US agriculture in an integrated global economy (with Purdue University; USDA AFRI) [2016-2017]

Quantifying the effectiveness of irrigation management strategies to increase crop water use efficiency in the Wisconsin Central Sands (USDA Hatch) [2016-2020]

Some previously funded projects:

Climate Change, Shifting Land use and Urbanization in a Midwestern Agricultural Landscape:  Challenges for Water Quality and Quantity (National Science Foundation (NSF) Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) Program) [2011-2016]

Impacts of potato and maize management and climate change on groundwater recharge across the Central Sands (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and UW Consortium for Extension and Research in Agriculture and Natural Resources)   [2012-2015]

Landscape Structure and Natural Pest-Suppression Services in Bioenergy Landscapes:  Implications for Regional Food and Fuel Production (U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture and Food Research Initiative [AFRI]): [2011-2015]

Quantifying Carbon Sequestration in Bioenergy Cropping Systems:  Scaling CO₂ Fluxes from Leaf-level to Landscapes (U.S. Department of Agriculture – Hatch): [2009-2015]

Carbon and Nitrogen Retention and Loss from Alternative Cellulosic Biofuels Cropping Systems (DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center [GLBRC]) [2009-2012]

Impacts of Historical and Future Changes in Climate and CO₂ on Terrestrial Ecosystem Structure and Functioning (Department of Energy (DOE) National Institute for Climate Change Research [NICCR]) [2007-2011]

Against the Grain:  the Effects of Widespread, Intensifying Agriculture on the Biosphere and Climate System (National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]) [2006-2011]