Education
Ph.D., Crop Production & Physiology - 2025
Minor in Statistics
Graduate Certificate in Data-Driven Food, Energy, and Water Systems - DataFEWSion
Iowa State University
M.S., Soil Science (Soil Management) - 2020
Iowa State University
B.S., Agricultural Biochemistry - 2015
Iowa State University
Research Interests
My research interests include soil fertility, experimental design, nonlinear modeling, statistics, and crop physiology.
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Presentations
Dissertation defense - 2025
Oral Presentation from ASA 2024 - San Antonio
Poster from ASA 2023 - St. Louis
Can We Identify Covariates Using Absolute Yield for Fertilizer Recommendations?
Poster from ASA 2022 - Baltimore
Absolute Yield Instead of Relative Yield for Fertilizer Recommendations?
Publications
Cleveringa, A. M., Ransom, C. J., McDaniel, M. D., Moore, K. J., Niemi, J. B., Miguez, F. E. (2025). Losing control: What happens when the control treatment is excluded in nitrogen fertilizer rate trials? [Accepted]. Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
Cleveringa, A. M., dos Santos, C. L., Miguez, F. E. (2025). Introducing the Quadratic-Plateau-Quadratic Function: Capturing the Ups and Downs [In Review]. Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
Cleveringa, A. M. (2025). Soil fertility trials on trial for “noise”: statistical implications for soil fertility modeling (Doctoral dissertation, Iowa State University).
Dissertation
Laurent, A. C., Cleveringa, A. M., Fey, S., Kyveryga, P., Wiese, N., Lefebvre, M., Newville, D., Quinn, D., McGuire, J., Tao, H., Morris, T., & Miguez, F. E. (2023). Late-season corn stalk nitrate measurements across the US Midwest from 2006 to 2018. Scientific Data, 10(1), 192.
Article, Data
Cleveringa, A. M. (2020). Short-term effects of integrated tillage systems and cover crop on agronomic response and soil health in North Central Iowa (Master’s thesis, Iowa State University).
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Projects
ONFANT
ONFANT, ON-FArm Nitrogen Trials, is a web-based interactive tool to visualize and summarize historical on-farm replicated strip trial data conducted by farmers working with the Iowa Soybean Association (see tab “Replicated strip trials”) and guided corn nitrate survey fields data across the Midwest (see tab “corn stalk N surveys”).
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