Dr. Sanford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an agroecologist and soil scientist, Dr. Sanford studies the impact that long-term management choices have on ecosystem services such as yield and soil organic carbon, as well as other critical metrics of system health and performance (soil health, GHGs, water, economics). His work involves diverse Midwestern farming systems spanning a continuum of crop life cycles (annuals to perennials), diversity (monocultures to polycultures), and management philosophies (organic to non-organic). Much of Dr. Sanford’s work is directed at understanding the role agroecosystems can play in adapting to extreme weather by building stable and resilient agricultural landscapes, as well as the critical role such landscapes have in mitigating rising levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases via the stabilization and accrual of organic carbon (SOC) in soils.