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Preparing Agriculture for a Changing World

Runoff from mountain snowpacks provides water for growing crops. Climate change could affect this resource, as well as the air and soil crucial to agriculture

Agriculture and climate are inextricably linked. Understanding how a change in the global climate would affect this country's food and fiber supply is an important mission for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

Below is the outline of "Preparing Agriculture for a Changing World," a story about a variety of state-of-the-art ARS research projects. It is adapted from the cover story of ARS' agency magazine, Agricultural Research, July 1997.

The ARS program is part of the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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Global Change: What Will It Do To Agriculture?

Agricultural Research: The Key to Coping with Global Change

Climate Change and Basic Processes

The FACE Project

Agriculture's Problems and Solutions

Modeling the Future

Climate's Impact on Snowpacks

SALSA--the SemiArid Land Surface Atmosphere Program

The Carbon Disappearance Mystery

Change on the Range

Farming in the Future

"Preparing Agriculture for a Changing World" was published in the July 1997 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.

The story was written by Kathryn Barry Stelljes, Sean Adams, Don Comis, Dawn Lyons-Johnson, Dennis Senft, and Marcia Wood. All are with the ARS Information Staff.

The National Agricultural Library's GC-ASK is a pilot project to make it easier to search for information on global change.

Need Information About Global Change? Just ASK.

Searching for information on the Internet can be frustrating. You search for table china, but you get hundreds of links about the People's Republic of China. ARS' National Agricultural Library is heading up a pilot project to make it easier to search for information on global change. The Global Change-Assisted Search for Knowledge (GC-ASK) program provides bibliographic information on global change-related research papers from nine government agencies.

"The goal is to develop a smarter search engine that uses reliable terminology to find just what you're looking for," says Roberta Y. Rand. She is the USDA global change data and information coordinator.

Roberta Y. Rand is at the USDA-ARS National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-2350; phone (301) 504-6813, fax (301) 504-6813.

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Scientists mentioned in the story.

Bruce A. Kimball ARS Environmental and Plant Dynamics Research Unit 4331 E Broadway Rd Phoenix, AZ, 85040-8807 Phone: (602) 437-1702 ext. 248 Fax: (602) 437-5291	L. Hartwell Allen ARS Crop Genetics and Environmental Research Unit University of Florida 1700 SW 23rd Dr. Gainesville, FL 32608 Phone: (352) 392-8194 Fax: (352) 392-6139
Herman S. Mayeux ARS-Grazinglands Research Laboratory 7207 W. Cheyenne St. El Reno, OK, 73036-0000 Phone: (405) 262-5291 Fax: (425) 262-0450	Raymond F. Angell ARS Range/Meadow Forage Mngt Research Unit 67826-A, HWY 205 Burns, OR 97720-9399 Phone: (541) 573-8936 Fax: (541) 573-3042
Kent O. Burkey ARS Plant Science Research Unit NCSU - 3127 Ligon St, Box 7632 Raleigh, NC 27695-7631 Phone: (919) 515-1620 Fax: (919) 856-4598	Steven J. Britz ARS Phytonutrients Laboratory Bldg 307-C BARC-EAST 10300 Baltimore Avenue Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 Phone: (301) 504-6625 ext. 241 Fax: (301) 504-9456
Jack A. Morgan ARS Crops Research Laboratory 1701 Center Ave. Fort Collins, CO 80526 Phone: (970) 492-7121 Fax: (970) 492-7310	James A. Bunce ARS Crop Systems & Global Change Laboratory Bldg. 046A, BARC-WEST 10300 Baltimore Ave. Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 Phone: (301) 504-7629 Fax: (301) 504-6626
H. Wayne Polley ARS Grassland, Soil & Water Research Lab 808 E. Blackland Rd. Temple, TX 76502 Phone: (254) 770-6629 Fax: (254) 770-6561	Steven A. Prior USDA-ARS National Soil Dynamics Laboratory 411 S. Donahue Dr Auburn, AL 36832 Phone: (334) 844-4741 ext. 143 Fax: (334) 887-8597
Albert Rango ARS Range Management Research 2995 Knox St. Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Phone: (505) 646-2120 Fax: (505) 646-5889	Ronald F. Follett ARS Soil-Plant-Nutrient Research Unit 2150 Centre Avenue, Room S-100 Fort Collins, CO 80526-8119 Phone: (970) 492-7220 Fax: (970) 492-7213
Donald C. Reicosky ARS North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory 803 Iowa Ave. Morris, MN 56267-1065 Phone: (320) 589-3411 ext. 144 Fax: (320) 589-3787	David C. Goodrich ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center 2000 East Allen Rd. Tucson, AZ 85719-1596 Phone: (520) 670-6381 ext. 144 Fax: (520) 670-5550
Hugo H. Rogers ARS National Soil Dynamics Laboratory 411 S. Donahue Dr Auburn, AL 36831-3439 Phone: (334) 844-4673 Fax: (334) 887-8597	Jon D. Hanson ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory Highway 6 South, PO Box 459 Mandan, ND, 58554-0459 Phone: (701) 667-3010 Fax: (701) 667-3054
M. Reza Savabi ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station 13601 Old Cutler Rd. Miami, FL 33158-1334 Phone: (305) 254-3633 Fax: (305) 969-6416	Lowrey A. Harper ARS Natural Resource Conservation Center 1420 Experiment Station Rd. Watkinsville, GA 30677 Phone: (706) 769-5631 ext. 225 Fax: (706) 769-8962
Phillip L. Sims ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station 2000 - 18th St. Woodward, OK 73801 Phone: (580) 256-7449 Fax: (580) 256-1322	H. Allen Torbert USDA-ARS National Soil Dynamics Laboratory 411 S. Donahue Dr Auburn, AL, 36832 Phone: (334) 844-3979 Fax: (334) 887-8597

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