INFEWS project, including co-investigators and collaborating partners. The above figure represents the ways in which our integrative research team aligns laboratory work at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Michigan with Rich Earth Institute’s field-based fertilizer trials (our “technical research” with supporting partners like Hampton Roads Sanitation District, or HRSD). Our quantitative surveys also align with field-based participant observation, qualitative interviews and focus groups (our “social research” with supporting sectoral partners like New Water ReSources). For both technical and social arms of the project, field methods have more parameters to manage and analyze than do formal surveys or laboratory experiments. However, field science produces rich data, and relevant insight about how to integrate results into existing systems. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.408.f1