The laboratory has a scientific staff from the areas of agronomy, soils, physics, chemistry, microbiology, agricultural engineering, and agricultural economics. Statistical Laboratory Dean L. Isaacson, director This research and service institute conducts research in statistical theory and methodology. It promotes and fosters the use of sound statistical methods in university research through on-campus consulting. Similar consulting aid, research cooperation, and services are extended to off-campus groups, other colleges and universities, and government agencies when such activities are of mutual benefit or otherwise in the public interest. The laboratory provides a research, teaching, and service facility to which the veterinary medical profession may bring animal health problems for counsel and diagnostic assistance.
Disciplines utilized are pathology, bacteriology, virology, serology, chemistry, and toxicology.
A graduate residency program for pathology, microbiology, and toxicology is active. Water Resources Research Institute Dennis Keeney, director The institute coordinates and administers an interdisciplinary program in water resources research. It administers the research funds received from the U.S. Department of the Interior, as made available through the Water Resources Research Act of 1983, and from the State of Iowa. Funds received from private, state, and federal sources are allocated for research in all aspects of water resources, and are directed primarily at solving state, regional, and national water problems. Technology transfer and information dissemination are additional elements of the program.