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The Iowa River from the Burlington Street Bridge

This is why we can’t have nice things

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Federal farm programs and how they relate to Iowa Water Quality
A pristine, perfectly still reservoir filled with water with trees on the other side

Where have you gone, Dale Maffitt?

Thursday, May 23, 2019
Erosion and Raccoon River sediment and turbidity
Yogi Berra with baseball cap

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Repetitive nature of nitrogen pollution research.
Sayer portrait photo in black and white

Drain Baby Drain

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
How "The Landscape of Capitalism" by Robert Sayre relates to today's agriculture.
A graph showing the cedar river nitrate load in 1906 vs. 2019

Fun with Math

Thursday, May 2, 2019
Observations on Cedar River Nitrate data.
A fish with a weird nose

It's Good to be Orange

Monday, April 29, 2019
.Monarch butterfly, pallid sturgeon, the Missouri River and Iowa agriculture.
A flag in the hole of a golf course

From Golf to Gulf?

Thursday, April 25, 2019
Do golf courses contribute to low-oxygen water conditions and do they degrade local water quality?
Portrait of Sulo, black and white

Sisu

Thursday, April 18, 2019
From Charles Trowbridge to Sulo Wiitala to Matt Liebman to Bill Stowe.
A hillside field is dark with manure while the rest of the landscape is snow covered

Stop Saying We All Want Clean Water

Sunday, April 14, 2019
We frequently hear Iowans say, "We all want clean water." But do we? Actions say, "Maybe not enough to do something about it."
A railroad tanker car

Trainloads

Friday, April 12, 2019
Iowa stream nitrate load in perspective
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