Sara Winnike McMillan

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Dr. Sara Winnike McMillan is an ecological engineer and biogeochemist in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. She is also a Professional Engineer with expertise in restoration, natural infrastructure, and agricultural conservation. Sara’s research focuses on how humans impact water quality in rivers, lakes, and wetlands and how climate change will affect access to clean water, sustainable food production, and healthy ecosystems. Her research focuses on applying these principles along the rural-urban continuum and partners with local stakeholders and decision makers to implement solutions that benefit humans and the environment. She uses lab and field-based techniques along with modeling tools to develop solutions to environmental problems. Her current research focuses on restoring ecosystems to improve water quality including projects on regenerative agriculture, watershed management, and and river restoration.

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Resilient Infrastructures

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