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Pete Nowak received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota's College of Agriculture in 1977, and was an assistant and associate professor at Iowa State University before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. Here he holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Environmental Studies in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and as a Soil and Water Conservation Specialist in the College of Agricultural and Life Science's Environmental Resources Center. Pete's career has focused on understanding why farmer adopt or reject conservation practices.

His work has been published in a variety of journals and books. He is a Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Precision Agriculture. In the recent past he has worked with the National Academy of Science's Board on Agriculture, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service and a National Blue Ribbon Panel examining the effectiveness of USDA's conservation programs.

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