Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ecologist, Iowa state university professor, and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, talks with John about how Iowa agriculture practices impact the Mississippi River and how her work integrating prairie vegetation into crop fields led to real results in reducing soil erosion and nitrogen and phosphorus runoff.

The chief of the US EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund on wildfires and watersheds, why we need to think about forests as water infrastructure and how to address agricultural pollution at a river basin scale.