Ann Lewandowski

Research Fellow

Phone: 612-624-6765

E-mail: alewand@umn.edu

Ann Lewandowski helps manage research and outreach activities related to agriculture and water quality. Her primary responsibility is managing the TSP Conservation Training Initiative to provide training opportunities for private sector ag and conservation professionals, and to help build interagency collaboration on conservation training activities. Other projects include a feasibility study of an on-farm water quality program modeled after the Wisconsin Discovery Farms, and a research and outreach program to quantify the economics of manure management options and deliver workshops around the state explaining the use of a manure economics calculator for manure managers.

Lewandowski earned an M.A. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for seven years for the Soil Quality Institute of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Then as a research assistant for the UM Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Lewandowski worked on the Minnesota Phosphorus Index and a study of groundwater nitrate contamination costs. She joined the WRC in February of 2008.

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