New Publication! Del Giudice et al. 2018

Last week I was invited to give a 5-minute lightening talk during the Sustainable Agriculture panel at the 2018 NatureNet Symposium. Muenich Lab group member, Danica Schaffer-Smith, is a 2018 NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow who helped facilitate the session. Check out the talk at the link here (around 2:23:20) in addition to the full day's talks! Presentation Citation: Muenich RL. Watershed modeling for agricultural conservation: Innovative, interdisciplinary methods. NatureNet Symposium 2018,

Last week I attended the ASABE's Global Water Security for Agriculture and Natural Resources Conference in Hyderabad,

Undergraduate researcher, Ivan Bystrov, who works on a joint research project in the Muenich and Garcia Labs won FIRST place in the undergraduate student poster competition at the 2018 AZ Hydrological Society Annual Meeting, September 19-21. Ivan presented a poster on the urban stormwater and green infrastructure sampling he has been doing in the Phoenix area over the 2018 AZ monsoon season - one of the wettest in a while! Congratulations, Ivan! Presentation citation: Bystrov I, Muenich RL,

Last week (Aug 23-24) I helped to host and facilitate a workshop with the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance on modeling phosphorus from the field to watershed scale. The two-day workshop in Columbus brought together 16 researchers (both academic and government) to discuss research and data gaps in how we model phosphorus and where the field should consider focusing research efforts.

Last week I was happy to get back to my old stomping ground in Southeastern Michigan to attend the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual International Meeting. This is the professional society that I have been a member of the longest (11 years!) and I enjoy their ability to integrate diverse perspectives and disciplines into one place.

On July 4, 2018, Dr. Margaret Garcia and I installed four stormwater samplers within Keep Phoenix Beautiful's Pierson Street Community Garden. We spent our day off installing these samplers because we are interested in understanding the pollutants that may come from an urban agriculture site and enter waterways via runoff.

Funded by a CRDF Global Catalyzing New Research Partnership (CAT-NRP) program grant, Ellie and I made a research collaboration trip to the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand

In January we kicked off a project with the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance that is aimed at collecting and analyzing state-level regulations with respect to land applications of biosolids and manures.