Contact Information
Phone: 608-262-4576
Fax: 608-265-2595
Email: jmnorman@wisc.edu
Office: 71A Soil Science
Program Affiliations
Department of Soil Science
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Education
BS Physics, 1964, University of Minnesota
MS Soil Science, 1967, University of Minnesota
PhD Soil Science, 1971, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching and Research Overview
I teach Introduction to Environmental Biophysics – a fundamental graduate course that teaches students about the relationship between living organisms and their environments through problem solving with quantitative relations wherever possible. I also team teach (2 other lectures and lab instructor) General Soil Science – an introductory soil science course for junior undergraduates and soil science majors that covers all the areas of soil science; namely, physics, chemistry, fertility, biology and soil mapping and genesis with problem solving, laboratory work and lectures.
Current research includes
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working with a team that includes soils scientists, economists and extension persons to provide tools that can identify improved Best Management Practices related to nutrient management on dairy farms in Wisconsin with the intention of reducing phosphorus losses, and improving farm profitability.
- continuing development of the Precision Agricultural-Landscape Modeling System (PALMS), which focuses on maximizing productivity and minimizing non-point-source pollution from agricultural fields.
- participating with Bland and Lowery in the modeling component of a Central Sands project to understand why the ground water levels are going so low in that area.
- leading a project that is producing an improved solar radiation product over North America using NOAA/GOES satellite data.
Selected Publications
Anderson, M.C., J.M. Norman, W.P. Kustas, F. Li, J.H. Prueger and J.R. Mecikalski. 2005. Effects of vegetation clumping on two-source model estimates of surface energy fluxes from an agricultural landscape during SMACEX. J. Hydromet. 6:892-909.
Bonilla, C.A., D.G. Kroll, J.M. Norman, D.C. Yoder, C.C. Molling, P.S. Miller, J.C. Panuska, J.B. Topel, P.L. Wakeman, and K.G. Karthikeyan 2006. Instrumentation for Measuring Runoff, Sediment and Chemical Losses. Journal of Environmental Quality 35:216-223.
Kustas, W.C., J.M. Norman and M.C. Anderson. 2006. Utility of Radiometric-Aerodynamic Temperature Relations for Heat Flux Estimation. Bound. Layer Meteorol. DOI 10.1007/s10546-006-9093 122:167-187.
Gramig, G.G., D.E. stoltenberg and J.M. Norman. 2006. Weed species radiation-use efficiency as affected by competitive environment. Weed Science 54:1013-1024.
Anderson, M.C., J.M. Norman, J.R. Mecikalski, J.A. Otkin, and W.P. Kustas. 2007. A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensingL 1. Model formulation, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10117, doi:10.1029/2006JD007506.
Bonilla, C.A.,J.M. Norman, and C.C. Molling. 2007. Water erosion estimation in topographically complex landscapes: Model description and first verifications. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:1524-1537. (Palms Publication)
Stone, B. And J.M. Norman. 2006. Land use planning and surface heat island formation: A parcel-based radiation flux approach. Atmospheric Environ. 40:3561-3573.
Anderson, M.C., Norman, J.M., Mecikalski, J.R., Otkin, J.A., Kustas, W.P. 2007. A Climatological Study of Evapotranspiration and Moisture Stress Across the Continental U.S. Based on Thermal Remote Sensing. II. Surface Moisture Climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research - 112, D11112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007507 (2007).
Panuska, J.C., K.G. Karthikeyan, and J.M. Norman. 2008. Sediment and phosphorus losses in snowmelt and rainfall runoff from three corn management systems. Trans. of ASABE 51(1):
Peterson, A.L., A.M. Thompson, C.A. Baxter, J.M. Norman and A. Roa-Espinosa. 2007. A polyacrylamide (PAM) formulation for reducing erosion and phosphorus loss in rainfed agriculture. Trans. of ASABE 50(6):2091-2101.
Anderson, M. C., W. P. Kustas, and J. M. Norman. 2007. Upscaling flux observations from local to continental scales using thermal remote sensing. Agron. J. 99:240-254.
Awards and Honors
2008 Honored Symposium: 2008 Joint Meeting of Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society, and the Geological Society of America, October 5-9, 2008, Houston, TX.Integrating Instrumentation, Modeling and Remote Sensing in Honor of John Norman. ASA-CSSA-SSSA, Madison, WI.
2008 Honored Symposium: 28th Conference on Agriucltural and Forest Meteorology, April 28 – May 2, 2008, Orlando, FL. General Session Honoring Professor John M. Norman. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.
2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2006 Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award for Excellence, College of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
2005 Outstanding Biometeorologist, Amer. Meteorol. Soc.
1997-2002 Rothemel Bascom Professor of Soil Science
1988 Fellow, Crop Science Society of America
1987 Fellow, American Society of Agronomy
1980-84 Invited Visiting Scholar to Washington State University, 3-6 March 1980; Division of Forest Research, CSIRO,Canberra, Australia, January-April 1983; University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 20 Jan.-5 Feb. 1984
1979 Selected as a member of a 4-man team to review crop modeling programs at 9 institutes in the USSR, under sponsorship of U.S. State Department.
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