Research

Active Research Grants:

NASA CMS, 2024-2027. Continued development towards robust monitoring of cropland carbon budget under management interventions in the US Heartland: integrating satellite observations, bottom-up and top-down modeling. ($1,039,825)

NSF ESIIL, 2024-2026. Harmonizing Natural Methane Datasets using Knowledge Guided Machine Learning. ($65,000)

DOE ESS, 2023-2026. Estimation of Global Methane Soil Sink Using Synthesized Datasets and Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning. ($400,000)

USDA NIFA, 2023-2026. High-resolution integrated assessments of tillage practice impacts on crop production and agroecosystem sustainability in the US Midwest – combining meta-analysis, airborne-satellite sensing, and process-based modeling. ($650,000)

NSF CNS, 2021-2026. SCC-IRG Track 1: Co-Producing Community – An integrated approach to building smart and connected nutrient management communities in the US Corn Belt. ($2,017,780)

Past and Inactive Grants:

USDA FGI, 2024-2027. A systematic assessment of adopting Kernza in Minnesota’s Drinking Water Supply Management Areas through a knowledge-guided machine learning approach. ($350,000)

NSF AI Institute and USDA NIFA, 2023-2028. AI-CLIMATE (Artificial Intelligence Institute for Climate-Land Interactions, Mitigations, Adaption, Trade-offs and Economy). ($20,000,000)

NSF IIS, 2023-2026. III: Medium: Advancing Deep Learning for Inverse Modeling. ($1,200,000)

NSF CBET, 2021-2025. SitS: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Soil N and P Cycles Quantified by a Sensor-Model Fusion Framework: Implications for Sustainable Nutrient Management ($1,199,919)

USDA NIFA, 2021-2025. WinterTurf: A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Mechanisms and Mitigating the Effects of Winter Stress on Turfgrasses in Northern Climates. ($8,000,000)

Illinois Nutrient Research & Education Council, Co-I, 2021-2025. Improving the N rate calculator and MRTN for Illinois farmers by leveraging NREC historical N trials and new computing tools ($387,670)

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, 2021-2024. Advancing regenerative agriculture: An Airborne-Satellite-Artificial Intelligence integrative technique to monitor soil organic carbon in the U.S. Corn Belt ($1,000,000 total)