Dr. Amy Sapkota
Dr. Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang
CONSERVE Project Director Dr. Amy Sapkota will lead the educational component of a grant that was recently awarded to University of Maryland Professor Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang. The five-year, $10 million project is funded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the same institute that funded CONSERVE, to help farmers in the Corn Belt navigate efficient water and nutrient use in order to increase crop production. Dr. Liang, along with other UMD researchers, plan to develop a Dashboard for Agricultural Water use and Nutrient management (DAWN) that will help maximize corn, soybean and bioenergy crop production in the Midwestern United States. They expect DAWN to identify innovative ways of increasing land- and water-use efficiency given competing resource demands and varying water availability and quality. As part of this new project, Dr. Sapkota plans to expand the CONSERVE Scholars and the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program, two very successful components of our CONSERVE project.
For additional information on the DAWN project, please visit: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4607