Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) researcher Tyler Lark contributed to two recently published papers highlighting the impacts of turning grasslands into cropland. The papers, “Grassland-to-cropland conversion increased soil, nutrient, and carbon losses in the US Midwest between 2008 and 2016” and “Assessing the impacts of recent crop expansion on water quality in the Missouri River Basin using the soil and water assessment tool,” were discussed in a recent article on the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center website.