Water Resources Center

The Water Resources Center is affiliated with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and University of Minnesota Extension.

Agricultural Impacts on Water Quality

Current Projects 

Minnesota Conservation Professional Training

Nutrient Management Planner Software

The Value of Manure

 

Completed Projects

A Novel In-situ Technology for the Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated with Agriculturally-derived Nitrate

Antibiotic Losses in Runoff and Drainage from Manure-applied Fields

Assessing the Impact of Arsenic on Upper-Midwestern Dairy Operations

Bioavailable P Credits in Payment for Pounds Program

Characterizing the Fate of Nitrogen Feriltilizer to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Irrigated Potato Production

Conservation Tillage and Strip Tillage Expos

Education to Improve Feedlot, Manure, and Nutrient Management

Estrogens and Estrogenic Activity in Swine Manure

Evaluation of Bank Erosion Inputs to the Blue Earth River with Airborne Laser Scanner

Feasibility of Controlled Drainage for Mitigating Nutrient Loss from Tile Drainage Systems in South-central Minnesota

In-situ Measurement of Denitrification in Agricultural Streams

Integrating Modeling and Management of Agriculturally-impacted Watersheds: Issues of Spatial and Temporal Scale

Investigation of the Abiotic Reduction of the Herbicides Trifluralin and Pendimethalin

Karst Campaign for Clean Water, Productive Soil, and Profitable Farms

Minnesota Water Quality Research Farms Network

On-Farm Manure Demonstration Project

Promoting the Adoption of Best Management Practices in the Minnesota River Basin through Comprehensive Farm Planning

Runoff Water Quality and Crop Response to Variable Manure Application Rate

Small Group Nutrient Management Planning Education

The Influence of Drainage on Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon in Agricultural Ecosystems

The Technical Service Provider (TSP) Training Initiative

Water Quality Monitoring Strategy Based on Agroecoregion Boundaries in the Minnesota River Basin

Program Areas

Agricultural Impacts on Water Quality

Stormwater and Wastwater

Water Resources Social Science and Policy

Water Supply, Quantity and Quality