Sheri uses ecological site description and livestock tracking to design management strategies that conserve both natural resources and input costs for ranchers. She is also collaboratively identifying efficient and practical ways to reuse and recycle manure nutrients across US agriculture through the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network Manureshed Project. A central theme of her work is assessing the tradeoffs of management strategies perceived to advance the sustainability of US agriculture. To that end, she is evaluating the social-ecological costs and benefits of the 18 “aspirational” farm and ranch management approaches under investigation in LTAR Common Experiment. Sheri is also the Co-Project Director of the Sustainable Southwest Beef Coordinated Agricultural Project, an interdisciplinary effort funded by USDA-NIFA to evaluate tradeoffs of strategies that aim to improve the sustainability of beef production from Southwest pasture to plate. Her research for the project explores how flows of cattle in beef supply chains affect the social-ecological systems of regions connected through beef production.