Margaret Kalcic’s research is in the area of watershed hydrology with a particular focus on water quality in agricultural regions. Before taking a faculty position at OSU she completed her undergraduate degree focused on Bioengineering at F. W. Olin College of Engineering, her Master’s and Ph.D. in Ecological Engineering at Purdue University, and a postdoc at the University of Michigan. Since 2013 she has worked on decision support tools and watershed modeling in the western Lake Erie watersheds to encourage policy- and agricultural decision-makers to incentivize and adopt effective conservation measures to tackle Lake Erie’s nutrient goals. She has a broad and applied research program spanning water quality modeling, geospatial analysis, stakeholder engagement, ecosystem services, and field-scale monitoring of conservation effectiveness.

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