Charles Stanier
IIHR
Asst. Professor of Chemical
and Biochemical Engineering
Thanos Papanicolaou
IIHR
Assoc. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
IIHR
Assoc. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Charles Stanier develops and applies computational tools for combining air quality measurements taken using different methods and across different scales. The Stanier group also runs the high accuracy Iowa NOAA CO2 station. The Stanier group maintains an active collaboration with researchers at NOAA, and will participate in a joint field campaign at the West Branch Iowa tall tower with NOAA Global Monitoring Division, NASA Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, and the Vaisala Instruments.
The research group of Thanos Papanicolaou brings extensive expertise in the use of stable isotopes of C and N for discrimination of soil erosion sources by sampling suspended soil in runoff. The Papanicolaou research group has knowledge and contacts to study carbon dynamics in agricultural soils and the soil-plant system. Representative publications include the recent theses of James Fox (Fox, 2005) on isotopic signatures and Ranjani Theregowda (Theregowda, 2007) on carbon dynamics using the CENTURY model and several refereed papers. See website at http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/~apapanic/. Papanicolaou serves as the director of the Clear Creek observatory through funding from NSF and USDA-NRCS.
Gregory Carmichael
Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Tom Moorman
USDA National
Soil Tilth Laboratory
Gregory Carmichael's research has focused over the last 10 years on studies related to atmospheric chemistry and transport. Through projects funded by DOE, NOAA, NSF and NASA, he has enhanced the capabilities of chemical transport models (CTMs). A major focus has been including data assimilation capabilities into chemical transport models, allowing improved forecasts and inversion for optimal parameters including initial conditions, boundary conditions, and surface fluxes. He has actively participated in several large atmospheric chemistry field experiments, including the NASA experiments Trace-P, INTEX-A, INTEX-B, and (currently) ARCTAS. In this proposed research new techniques in data assimilation are applied to the carbon flux inverse problem. This work builds upon developments arising from an on-going NSF grant; the website http://atmos.cgrer.uiowa.edu/people/tchai/ contains additional details about this effort.
Tom Moorman is a biologist in Agricultural Land and Watershed Management Research with the USDA National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL) in Ames, Iowa. Moorman leads ARS Research Unit conducting research on agricultural management practices and water quality, and has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Moorman manages with (M. Tomer and D. Karlen, NSTL) a watershed based project (South Fork of Iowa River) contributing to the Conservation Effects Assessment Program which seeks to quantify the effect of conservation practices on water quality.