Recent retirement as faculty member in the ISU Agronomy Department. Currently non-degree graduate student at the University of Iowa focused on environmental and public health in relation to water quality, community engagement, and coalition building within local watersheds. Interim Chair of Ioway Creek Watershed Coalition, a 20+ year old citizen-science water quality monitoring group in central Iowa.
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| Dr. Antonio Mallarino is Professor of Agronomy, Nutrient Management Research and Extension Specialist, at Iowa State University. His research and outreach efforts focus on cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally sound nutrient management practices for Iowa cropping systems. Emphasis is on fertilizer and manure management, soil and plant tissue testing, use of precision agriculture technologies, and minimizing phosphorus management impacts on water quality. He contributed to the development of the Iowa Phosphorus Index, contributes to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy science team, and represents Iowa State University at the USDA/NIFA committees North Central Extension and Research (NCERA-13) and Minimizing Phosphorus Losses from Agriculture (SERA-17). He began his professional career at the University of Uruguay and joined the Iowa State University faculty in 1993.
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Matt Liebman is a professor of agronomy and the H.A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. He received an A.B. in biological sciences from Harvard in 1978 and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California-Berkeley in 1986. Before joining the ISU faculty in 1998, Matt worked at the University of Maine for 11 years. He became a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 2009 and was a member of the National Research Council committee that produced the 2015 report titled “A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System.” His research, teaching, and outreach activities focus on ways to improve environmental quality and agricultural productivity while reducing dependence on agrichemicals and fossil fuels. Specific interests include diversified cropping systems, weed ecology and management, and the use of native prairie species for biofuel production and soil, water, and wildlife conservation.
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Corey Markfort is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. He is also Faculty Research Engineer and head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Renewable Energy (EFRE) Laboratory at IIHR – Hydroscience & Engineering. His research focus is on improving measurement and prediction of environmental boundary-layers, with applications to air and water resource sustainability, land-atmosphere and air-water interactions, and renewable energy.
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Kate Giannini is a communications specialist at the Iowa Flood Center, at the University of Iowa IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering Department. Kate leads outreach, communication, and research activities for the Iowa Watershed Approach at the Iowa Flood Center and serves as liaison between IIHR researchers, IWA partners, and external stakeholders.
Todd Hubbard is a limnologist for the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) at the University of Iowa. His work primarily revolves around the state of Iowa’s biological monitoring program for streams and rivers. His primary interests lie in characterizing aquatic macroinvertebrate biogeography in Iowa, understanding drivers of community structure, and improving biomonitoring techniques/tools. He has been with the SHL since 1992. He holds a B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Environmental Science.
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