Research Theme: Sustainability

How do Hydrological Variability and Human Activities Control the Spatiotemporal Changes of Riverine Nitrogen Export in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Nitrogen, Water

Characterizing the Potential for Sustainable Azelaic Acid Production from High-Oleic Vegetable Oil Using Two-Step Oxidative Cleavage Method

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Bioproducts, Life Cycle Assessment, Technoeconomic Analysis

Climatic and Socioeconomic Drivers of Water Use and Their Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Small and Mid-Sized Cities in the Contiguous United States

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Water

Dataset for “Climatic and Socioeconomic Drivers of Water Use and Their Spatio-Temporal Patterns for Small and Mid-Sized Cities in the Contiguous United States”

Type: Dataset

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Modeling, Water

Yield From Iowa’s First Commercial Miscanthus Fields: Implications of Spatial Variability for Productivity and Sustainability Beyond Research Plots

Type: Publication

Themes: Feedstock Production, Sustainability

Keywords: Economics, Field Data, Land Management, Marginal Land, Miscanthus, Modeling, Remote Sensing, Yield

Bioenergy Crops Could Cut Aviation Emissions by 80%, Illinois-led Study Finds

Type: News

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuels, Carbon, Economics, Life Cycle Assessment, Miscanthus, News, Policy, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Land Conversion to Energy Crops for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Inter-BRC, Land Use Change, Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Soil Oxygen Dynamics: A Key Mediator of Tile Drainage Impacts on Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Crop Systems

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Soil, Water

Data for Supplementing Biofuel Mandates with a Carbon Mitigation Policy Can Lead to Water Quality Co-Benefits

Type: Dataset

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuels, Carbon, Modeling, Water

The Coming of Age of Miscanthus

Type: News

Themes: Feedstock Production, Sustainability

Keywords: Biofuels, Bioproducts, Economics, Feedstock Bioprocessing, Gene Editing, Genomics, Miscanthus, News, Perennial Bioenergy Grasses, Plant Transformation

Signatures of Local Nitrogen Adaptation in the Brachypodium distachyon Root Microbiome

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Microbiome, Nitrogen, Roots

Synthetic Microbial Communities: Bridging Research and Application in Second-Generation Bioenergy Feedstock Microbiomes

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Microbiome, Miscanthus, Review, Sorghum, Sugarcane

Sustainable Triacetic Acid Lactone Production from Sugarcane by Fermentation and Crystallization

Type: Publication

Themes: Conversion, Sustainability

Keywords: Bioproducts, Life Cycle Assessment, Sugarcane, Technoeconomic Analysis

Artificial Neural Networks Estimate Evapotranspiration for Miscanthus × giganteus as Effectively as Empirical Model but with Fewer Inputs

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: AI/ML, Miscanthus, Modeling

What Regulates Decomposition in Agroecosystems? Insights from Reading the Tea Leaves

Type: Publication

Themes: Sustainability

Keywords: Agroecosystem