1. This should be customer driven “Cassandra” or “The Oracle”

2.  1) Expert system/decision support tool for growing season and non-growing season operation guidelines for drainage water management systems for optimizing both agronomic crop production and environmental objectives.

3.  2) Treatment technologies and management strategies to remove pollutants from drainage water. (i.e. blind inlet treatment systems, bioreactors, wetlands, cover crops, filter treatment systems, etc.)

4.  3) Technology and protocols to validate nutrient trading credits for drainage treatment technologies.

5.  4) Confirmation regarding where the water and nutrients (N and P) go when drainage water management is implemented.

6.  5) Technologies to map existing subsurface drainage infrastructure.

7.  6) User friendly linkage of watershed (i.e. SWAT) and DRAINMOD models.

8.  7) Ecological, hydrologic, and economic evaluation of innovative watershed drainage infrastructure, such as two-stage ditches.

9.  1) Better understanding of climate change impacts on agricultural drainage practices and associated environmental consequences.

10.  2) Better understanding of climate change on drainage system design criteria.

11.  3) Rural and urban interface issues.

12.  4) Role of drained lands to meet world goals for food, fiber and fuels.

13.  5) Innovative ways to integrate drainage and irrigation (i.e. storage and recycling of drainage waters) specifically in the Midwest U.S.