U.S. Salinity Laboratory
Students from Universidade Autônoma Chapingo in their 25th annual academic visit to the US Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, California. (November 29th, 2018).
U.S. Salinity Laboratory
USSL scientists use satellite imagery to map soil salinity in agricultural lands, as shown on the cover of the December 2017 issue of California Agriculture (Scudiero et al., 2017).
U.S. Salinity Laboratory
Dr. Devinder Sandhu is crossing selected alfalfa genotypes to integrate multiple component traits of the salt tolerance mechanism.
U.S. Salinity Laboratory
Dr. Manju Pudussery, Biological Science Technician and Jeffery Geiger, UCR student, are tagging almond rootstocks for a salinity study.
U.S. Salinity Laboratory
Drs. Jorge Ferreira and Xuan Liu are recording physiological parameters to evaluate salinity tolerance of various almond rootstocks.
Mission
The mission of the Agricultural Water Efficiency and Salinity Research Unit is to develop methods for evaluating, predicting and managing the movement of contaminants and solutes (e.g., water, salts, agricultural chemicals and microorganisms) in the root and vadose zones of arid-region soils; and to expand and create the necessary knowledge and management practices for sustainable and economic plant production using saline water or salt affected soils while conserving water and soil resources.