Tammo Steenhuis

About

Tammo Steenhuis is a faculty member associated with Cornell CALS, with research interests that include applied economics, biology, climate change, environment, and food. His work involves developing new thinking and solutions to some of today's biggest challenges in these fields. He collaborates with students and other researchers to advance understanding and practical applications in areas such as sustainable agriculture, environmental health, and food systems. His contributions are part of CALS's broader mission to bring innovative research from classroom to lab to field, impacting global development, health, and nutrition.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Agronomy
• Geography
• Biology
• Engineering
• Ecology
• Environmental engineering
• Geology
• Environmental chemistry
• Agroforestry

Selected publications

• Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health

  Nature Communications · 2024 · 391 citations

  O emissions by 39%, and improve the system's greenhouse gas balance by 88%. Furthermore, including legumes in crop rotations stimulates soil microbial activities, increases soil organic carbon stocks by 8%, and enhances soil health (indexed with the selected soil physiochemical and biological properties) by 45%. The large-scale adoption of diversified cropping systems in the North China Plain could increase cereal production by 32% when wheat-maize follows alternative crops in rotation and farme…

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• Reduced groundwater use and increased grain production by optimized irrigation scheduling in winter wheat–summer maize double cropping system—A 16-year field study in North China Plain

  Field Crops Research · 2021 · 79 citations

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• Diversified crop rotations enhance groundwater and economic sustainability of food production

  Food and Energy Security · 2021 · 57 citations

  Abstract Earth's water resources are critical for supporting livelihoods and food security but are being increasingly overexploited to support global agriculture. Diversifying cropping systems could potentially resolve unsustainable water use but trade‐offs with other aspects of sustainability and food security have not yet been assessed. We performed a detailed analysis of 31 different field crop rotations conducted during 1990–2019 in the North China Plain, to assess the potential impact of cr…

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• A critical analysis of soil (and water) conservation practices in the Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for future research and modeling

  CATENA · 2023-10-09 · 26 citations

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• Watershed scale modeling of Dissolved organic carbon export from variable source areas

  Journal of Hydrology · 2023-08-25 · 18 citations

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Recent grants

• Building on the Legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and J.-Yves Parlange for Advances in the Ecological Hydrosphere

  NSF · $22k · 2012–2014

• Colloid Retention in Unsaturated Porous Media due to Capillary Forces

  NSF · $190k · 2007–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Seifu A. Tilahun

  Water Resources Commission of Ghana

  254 shared

• Amy S. Collick

  102 shared

• J.‐Y. Parlange

  Cornell University

  101 shared

• Zachary M. Easton

  100 shared

• Assefa D. Zegeye

  Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute

  90 shared

• Christian D. Guzmán

  Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

  79 shared

• Brian K. Richards

  Cornell University

  77 shared

• M. Todd Walter

  Cornell University

  70 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Wisconsin, Madison

  1978

Awards & honors

• Fellow (2009) American Geophysical Union
• International Award (2011) American Geophysical Union
• Partnership Award for integrating science, education and ext…

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