Water quality research is a 'team sport’: Collaboration is worth the investment
This is the third and final article in an INRC series highlighting partnerships that help advance water quality research.
Last year, Matt Helmers was a featured speaker for a Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research webinar highlighting the benefits of collaboration. Helmers, director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center, has considerable experience with partnerships at state, regional and national levels.
"Collaboration takes time and sometimes other investments, and it doesn't always work out," he said. "But when it does, it has so much potential to expand the reach and impacts of our research."
Helmers especially values several impactful partnerships he has been – and continues to be – involved in, including the Iowa Learning Farms, the SERA-46 Committee that works on Gulf Hypoxia and FFAR. Read more about Water quality research is a 'team sport’: Collaboration is worth the investment
Since the commencement of this project, we have collaborated with researchers at the ARS to retrieve and organize all continuous, in-situ data collected along Walnut Creek. Our initial analysis has focused on exploring a unique dataset containing continuous, sub-daily observations of orthophosphate. 