Presenters:
- Dr. Jacqueline Comito, Program Director, Iowa Learning Farms and Water Rocks!, Adjunct Assistant Faculty, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University
- Dr. Catherine L. Kling, Tisch University Professor of Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
This seminar focuses on a collaborative relationship among economists at Cornell and East Caroline University, an anthropologist at Iowa State University and field practitioners at The Nature Conservancy. The INRC-funded portion of the project combines quantitative and qualitative peer research methods to generate accurate estimates of Midwestern farmers’ willingness to adopt critical edge-of-field conservation practices (e.g., saturated buffers in this case). The affiliated project collaborates closely with The Nature Conservancy to actually install saturated buffers on the land of randomly chosen survey respondents who said they would be willing to install the practice for a specific level of funding, hopefully helping to reduce the hypothetical bias in the survey results.
This seminar is the second session in INRC's Fall 2025 Iowa Water Quality Research Seminar series, Working Towards Better Water Quality through Regional Collaborative Research.