Rate My Professor Jon Schoonover

His research centers on impacts of land use on water quality, hydrology, soils, and channel morphometry; designing and testing Best Management Practices for row crop agriculture; fecal coliform contamination across land uses; water resource stress at urban-rural interfaces; biogeochemistry of floodplain forests; and riparian zone management in agricultural systems. Key publications include 'An introduction to soil concepts and the role of soils in watershed management' (Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 2015, 488 citations); 'Land cover impacts on stream nutrients and fecal coliform in the lower Piedmont of West Georgia' (Journal of Hydrology, 2006, 196 citations); 'Nutrient attenuation in agricultural surface runoff by riparian buffer zones in southern Illinois, USA' (Agroforestry Systems, 2005, 183 citations); and 'Cover crops and landscape positions impact infiltration and anion leaching in corn-soybean rotation' (Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, 2020). Schoonover has secured over $12.5 million in grants, including projects on saturated buffers, gypsum applications, and water and sediment control basins funded by the Nutrient Research and Education Council. Awards include the 2014 Teaching Award of Merit from North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, 2014 College Teaching Excellence Award from SIU College of Agricultural Sciences, and 2010 Donald M. Elkins Excellence in Teaching Award.