Conduct research to address known challenges in row crop agricultural production. Duties will include: establishing field, lab/growth chamber, and greenhouse research trials, conducting data collection in field trials using instrumentation, overseeing sample processing and data entry, conducting lab germination assays on seeds, installing and downloading data from weather sensors, assisting with grant writing and funding opportunities, assisting with writing and presenting research results in scholarly journals and professional meetings. Planned trial focus crops include corn, soybe