Resources

This site includes information and tools to help farmers, farmland owners, and the public understand and manage the linkages between crop production and water quality. An interactive tool on the N-factor, which integrates explanatory videos and downloadable extension publications, is especially helpful.

The Natural Capital Project works to understand how to value nature and the services it provides so that leaders of countries, companies, and communities can make smarter decisions for both the planet and their bottom lines. The project provides a lot of resources for understanding, mapping, and valuing ecosystem services.

Iowa has been working for decades to protect and improve water quality through best scientific management, land use, and edge-of-field practices to reduce nutrient loss from farmland. The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy is a science and technology-based framework to assess and reduce nutrients to Iowa waters and the Gulf of Mexico. Updated annually.

Based at Iowa State University, Water Rocks! integrates science with music, the arts, technology and social media, centered around all things water.

Article on using games to teach ecosystem services

People, Land Use, and Society Lab, Iowa State University

Landscape Ecology and Sustainable Ecosystem Management Lab, Iowa State University

Iowa State University Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management homepage.