Contact:

(765) 494-6143
chris.renschler@usda.gov

Biography and Research

Chris S. Renschler joined the NSERL in 2022 as Supervisory Research Soil Scientist after a more than 20-year career as a professor in academia with research, teaching and outreach activities in five continents. He is a Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized as an expert and scholar in soil and water conservation, integrated watershed, natural resources, and hazards management using GIS and Remote Sensing. His research, teaching, and outreach activities included the development, validation, and application of integrated hydrology and sediment modeling tools developed collaboratively by scientists, engineers, and practitioners to support effective decision-making under global climate and land use/land cover change. He has an undergraduate and graduate degree in Geoecology from the Technical University of Braunschweig, a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany, and did his PhD research and post-doc with researchers at Purdue and the NSERL.

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• Projects

  Improving Understanding of Soil Processes for Making More Informed Agricultural Management Decisions that Increase Agricultural Sustainability in the Central U.S. In-House Appropriated (D)   Accession Number:445338

  Assessment of Sediment and Chemical Transport Processes for Developing and Improving Agricultural Conservation Practices In-House Appropriated (D)   Accession Number:441760

  IRA GHG Quantification Action Area #6 (M#6)- Improve temporal and spatial coverage of national conservation activity data - West Lafayette, IN Interagency Reimbursable Agreement (I)   Accession Number:446095

  Improve Temporal and Spatial Coverage of National Conservation Activity Data - West Lafayette, IN Invalid Project Type (K)   Accession Number:446763

  Assessment of Sediment and Chemical Transport Processes for Developing and Improving Agricultural Conservation Practices Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement (N)   Accession Number:446509

• Publications

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  • QGeoWEPP: An open-source geospatial interface to enable high-resolution watershed-based soil erosion assessment -(Peer Reviewed Journal)
    Zhang, H., Renschler, C.S. 2024. QGeoWEPP: An open-source geospatial interface to enable high-resolution watershed-based soil erosion assessment. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106118.
    
  • Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies-(Peer Reviewed Journal)
    Wells, R.R., Flanagan, D.C., Langendoen, E.J., Mcgehee, R.P., Bingner, R.L., Frankenberger, J.R., Locke, M.A., Momm, H.G., Renschler, C.S., Srivastava, A., Vieira, D.A., Tsegaye, T.D. 2024. Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 79(5):215-232. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2024.00072.
    
  • Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana -(Peer Reviewed Journal)
    Williams, M.R., Livingston, S.J., Duriancik, L.F., Flanagan, D.C., Frankenberger, J.R., Gillespie, R.B., Gonzalez, J.M., Huang, C., Penn, C.J., Smith, D.R., Renschler, C.S. 2023. Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 78(1):12A-19A. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2023.1204A.