As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.
Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.
For this week‘s edition (#1365), Bob has selected Andrew VanLoocke‘s segment. An assistant professor in the department of agronomy at Iowa State University, Dr. VanLoocke’s segment explores the need for more perennial plants.
Andy VanLoocke is an Agricultural Meteorologist in the department of Agronomy at Iowa State University. He conducted his doctoral studies including significant portions of this article in the department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are focused on assessing the impacts of land-use and crop management on carbon, water and nitrogen cycling. His group uses a combination of agro-ecosystem and hydrology models with micrometeorology and crop physiology measurements in both perennial and annual cropping systems.
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