People

Project Investigators

Project Lead
cropping systems modeling
Michael Castellano photo
Project Co-Lead, William T. Frankenberger Professor of Soil Science
soil science
Mark Licht photo
Project Co-Lead, Assistant Professor
Cropping systems management and outreach

Collaborators

Dr. Matthew J Helmers photo
Dean's Professor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Professor Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Drainage Water Quality
 Daryl E Herzmann photo
Systems Analyst III
Weather Forecast and Observations
Associate Professor
Machine learning
Andy Vanloocke photo
Assistant Professor
Agricultural Meteorology
Associate Professor
Machine learning
PhD student
Crop production
professor
plant breeding, operational research
PhD student
Agronomy
Graduate student
Crop production
Isaiah L Huber photo
Graduate Assistant-Modeling
Crop modeling, computerized simulations of agronomic systems.
PhD student
Crop production
Assistant Scientist II
crop and soil measurements
weather specialist
Weather

Alumni

Postdoc Research Associate
Crop ecophysiology (Crop growth and root system)
summer intern
Computer Science
Graduate Assistant-Research
Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
Postdoc Research Associate
data processing and modeling
Assistant Scientist I
Weather, modeling, Data collection and processing
Postdoc Research Associate
Coordinate and manage field and laboratory research activities.
Undergrad Research Assistant
Agronomy
Graduate Assistant-Research, Sotirios Archontoulis, Mark Licht
Assists with field data collection
PhD student
Machine learning, yield prediction
Agricultural Specialist III
Soil Measurements
Undergrad Research Assistant
Agronomy, Meteorology
Graduate Assistant-Research, Sotirios Archontoulis
Assists with field data collection, data processing and modeling
Undergrad Research Assistant
Agronomy
postdoc
soil and plant nitrogen
Graduate Assistant-Research, Sotirios Archontoulis
Assists with field data collection, data processing and modeling
Undergrad Research Assistant
Agronomy
Undergrad Research Assistant
Agronomy, Meteorology
Graduate Assistant-Research
Weather forecast and soybean data collection
Statistical Consultant
Statistics

FACTS is an ongoing project developed to forecast and evaluate in real-time soil-crop dynamics at  specific ISU research fields (field scale) and at regional scale. Predictions will be frequently updated as new information becomes available. The project investigators and Iowa State University are not responsible for extrapolations made by individuals to other fields. Information from this website can be used for presentations without further permission if used in its entirety and credit is given to the Iowa State University FACTS project. Information from this website cannot be used in publications or other model improvement activities without prior permission of the project investigators.