Evaluation of the Soil Vulnerability Index for artificially drained cropland across eight Conservation Effects Assessment Project watersheds

Claire Baffaut is a hydrologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, Columbia, Missouri. Sapana Lohani is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biology, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada. Allen L. Thompson is a professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Austin R. Davis is a graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Niroj Aryal is an assistant professor of biological engineering in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina. David L. Bjorneberg is a soil scientist at the USDA ARS, Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Laboratory, Kimberly, Idaho. Ronald L. Bingner, Seth M. Dabney, and Lindsey M.W. Yasarer are agricultural engineer, agronomist, and hydrologist, respectively, at the USDA ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, Mississippi. Lisa F. Duriancik is the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Watershed Assessment Studies Component leader at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Resource Assessment Division, Beltsville, Maryland. David E. James and Mark D. Tomer are a geographic information specialist and soil scientist, respectively, at the USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa. Kevin W. King is research leader and agricultural engineer at the Soil Drainage Research Unit, USDA ARS, Columbus, Ohio. Sangchul Lee is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and with the USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Gregory W. McCarty and Ali M. Sadeghi (retired) are soil scientists at the USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Michele L. Reba is a hydrologist at the USDA ARS Delta Water Management Research Unit, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Mark R. Williams is an agricultural engineer at the USDA ARS National Soil Erosion Research Unit, West Lafayette, Indiana. Lindsay A. Pease is an assistant professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, Minnesota.