ASC wins grant to quantify phosphorus leaching from stream bank erosion

Andrew Margenot next to undercut streambank in Coles County, Ill.

A team of Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists, including faculty from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Crop Sciences, was awarded a grant from the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council to quantify streambank erosion across the state and its contributions to phosphorus loading of surface waters. 

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