Publications

2025

Magala, R. 2025. Quantifying ecosystem service trade-offs to advance sustainable intensification of U.S. Corn Belt agriculture. Ph.D. dissertation. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

2023

R. Valek and Schulte, L. A., “Environmental software development in academic settings to support digital game-based learning: A case study on PEWI”, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2023. 

2022

R. Magala, Tyndall, J. C., and Schulte, L. A., “Learning about ecosystem services with PEWI: student reflections”, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2022. 

2021

N. Batwara, "Developing blockchain exercises using PEWI: Analyzing blockchain use in agricultural supply chain". Iowa State University, Ames, 2021. 

R. Valek, Tyndall, J. C., and Schulte, L. A., “People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration (PEWI) v4 software”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2021. 

2020

R. Valek, “Advancing PEWI: An ecosystem service and economic outcomes simulator for agricultural and natural resource education”, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2020.

K. Anderson, Grudens-Schuck, N., Valek, R., Schulte, L. A., and Smalley, S. W., “Alignment of a digital watershed and land use game to national education standards”, Natural Sciences Education, 2020.

C. M. Chennault, Valek, R., Tyndall, J. C., and Schulte, L. A., “Corrigendum to PEWI: An interactive web-based ecosystem service model for a broad public audience: Ecological Modelling 2020 431: 109165”, Ecological Modelling, vol. 431, 2020. 

G. Emirhüseyinoglu and Ryan, S., “Land use optimization for nutrient reduction under stochastic precipitation rates”, Environmental Modeling and Software, vol. 123, 2020. 

N. Batwara, Grudens-Schuck, N., Smalley, S., and Moore, L. Schulte, “PEWI: A Land Use Simulation Game (PDF)”. 2020.

C. M. Chennault, Valek, R. M., Tyndall, J. C., and Schulte, L. A., “PEWI: An interactive web-based ecosystem services model designed for a broad public audience”, Ecological Modelling, vol. 431, p. 109165, 2020. 

N. Grudens-Schuck and Schulte, L. A., “Teaching about land use and watersheds with PEWI (PDF)”, Getting Into Soil and Water, 2020. 

2019

N. Grudens-Schuck and Whitehair, R., “PEWI coders: 25 and counting”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2019.

N. Grudens-Schuck and Whitehair, R., “The story of making PEWI”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2019.

2018

R. Valek, Chennault, C. M., Tyndall, J. C., and Schulte, L. A., “People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration (PEWI) v3 software”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2018. 

K. Anderson, Valek, R., and Grudens-Schuck, N., “PEWI Alignment to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Content Standards”, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2018.

K. Anderson, Valek, R., and Grudens-Schuck, N., “PEWI Alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards”, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2018.

2017

L. A. Schulte and Tyndall, J. C., “Understanding land-use feedbacks and ecosystem service tradeoffs in agriculture”, in Gergel, SE, and MG Turner, Learning landscape ecology: concepts and tools for sustainable landscapes, 2nd ed., 2017, pp. 323-324. "Understanding land-use..." Google Scholar

2016

L. A. Schulte, Chennault, C. M., Grudens-Schuck, N., Tyndall, J. C., and Valek, R., “Getting into Soil and Water Virtually with PEWI”, Getting Into Soil and Water, vol. 2016, pp. 24-25, 2016.

C. M. Chennault, Schulte, L. A., and Tyndall, J. C., “PEWI: A web-based learning tool for evaluating ecosystem service tradeoffs from watersheds”, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, vol. 71, p. 31A-36A, 2016.

N. Hagen, “Watershed Tools Comparison White Paper (PDF)”, Landscape Ecology and Sustainable Ecosystems Management Lab, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2016. 

2015

New online tool tests ag watershed management options (PDF)”, Clean Water Starts With Us, 2015. [Online].

2014

C. M. Chennault, Frahm, R., Schulte, L. A., Tyndall, J. C., and VanDyk, J., “People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration (PEWI) v2 software”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2014. "PEWI v2..." DOI

C. M. Chennault, “People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration: Visualizing ecosystem services tradeoffs in agricultural landscapes (PDF)”, 2014.

2010

L. A. Schulte, Donahey, J., Gran, L., Isenhart, T., and Tyndall, J. C., “People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration: A dynamic watershed tool for linking agroecosystem outputs to land use and land cover (PDF)”, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, vol. 65, no. 2, 2010.