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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Watersheds
item Adapting Agricultural Production Systems and Soil and Water Conservation Practices to Climate Change and Variability in Southern Great Plains
item Advancing Climate Change Resilience in the Southwest United States
item Climate Change, Cooperative Extension and Youth
item Climate Conversation with NRCS and Conservation Partnership Personnel
item Climate Extension in Arizona
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Mitigation Outreach and Education
item Climate Variability and Change in Central Oklahoma
item Climate-informed Assessment of Water Availability and Adaptive Management for Cropping Systems in the Fort Cobb Reservoir Experimental Watershed
item Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry
item Colorado South Platte River Basin CEAP - Establishment of Monitoring and Modeling Foundation
item Conservation Effects Assessment Project - 2019, 2020, 2021
item Dam Analysis Modernization of Tools, Applications, Guidance and Standardization (DAM-TAGS) Project
item DAM-TAGS: A Continuation of Modernization of Decision Support Tools, Guidance, Standardization, Training, and Outreach
item Develop and Evaluate a Site-specific Climate Downscaling Tool for Climatic Impact Assessment
item Develop and Evaluate Rapidly Deployable Inexpensive Sensors to Aid the Monitoring, Inspecting, and Rehabilitation of Aging Dams
item Developing a Conceptual Integrated Geospatial Architectures To Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA
item Developing Ecophysiological Components for Post-Fire Hydrologic Models
item Developing Integrated Geospatial Architectures to Support Enterprise Deployment of Geographic Information Systems Products at USDA
item Developing Southern Plains Region Management And Resiliency Tools for Agricultural Systems (SMART Ag Systems)
item Development of a Monitoring Network, Engineering Tools, and Guidelines for the Design, Analysis, and Rehabilitation of Embankment Dams, Hydraulic Structures, and Channels
item Development of Engineering Tools, Design Guidance Documents, and Computational Software for Monitoring, Inspecting and Rehabilitating Aging Dams
item Enhancement of Erosion Processes and Breach Prediction and Analysis Modules and Other Hydraulic and Hydrologic Support Tools
item Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment
item Enhancing Climate-smart Disaster Relief in FSA Programs: Non-stationarity at the Intersection of Normal Grazing Periods and US Drought Assessment
item Evaluating the Agricultural Ecosystems Services (AgES) Watershed Versus Other Models in Snow-dominated Systems
item Evaluation of Management Impacts on Water and Soil Quality using Distributed Hydrologic and Transport Models
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
item Expanding NRCS Climate Literacy and Leadership
item FY 2021 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on Croplands) El Reno, OK
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands) El Reno
item FY2021, FY2022 Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes, Phase 2 (Temple, TX)
item Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Agrohydrological Variability in the Water-limited Great Plains
item Grass-cast and the Living Labs Framework: Creating a User-driven and Co-developed Product for Working Lands
item Identifying Drivers of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Semi-arid Agroecosystems
item Impacts of Variable Land Management and Climate on Water and Soil Resources
item Improving Resiliency of Semi-Arid Agroecosystems and Watersheds to Change and Disturbance through Data-Driven Research, AI, and Integrated Models
item Integrated Cropland and Rangeland Drought Preparation for Enhanced Climate Resiliency in Utah
item Integration of a New Groundwater Flow and Salinity Model in SWAT+
item Integration of SWAT+/MODFLOW and Inclusion in the Geospatial Modeling Interface
item Inventory of Forest Resources: Forest Management Resources in New Mexico and Arizona
item Inventory of Forest Resources: Forest Management Resources in New Mexico and Arizona
item Missouri River Basin Water Resource Management
item Monitoring and Evaluating Water Resources in Upper Washita River Basin
item NRCS COMET-Planner Review of 2018 Farm Bill Conservation Programs in the Southern Plains to Determine Possible Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
item Operation of the ARS Micronet to Provide a Long-Term, High Spatial Resolution Climate Record for Study of Hydrologic and Agricultural Systems
item Post-fire Runoff Response in Mulched Montane Catchments
item Precision Application of Conservation in Upper Midwestern Cropping Systems
item Process Modeling, Machine Learning, and Computational Tools for Watershed Modeling from Fire to Field
item Remote Sensing and Spatial Simulation of Agricultural Watersheds
item Support Climate-smart Decision Making on Diné Lands, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Supporting Career Pathways for Indigenous Agriculture
item Sustainability of Groundwater and Irrigated Agriculture in the Western United States Under a Changing Climate
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs - Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices - El Reno, OK
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs – Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices - Fort Collins, CO
item The USDA ARS Climate Hubs – Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Impactful Development and Communication of Climate Smart Agricultural Research and Practices – Las Cruces, NM
item USDA Southwest Climate Hub Advancing Climate Informed Decision Making in Hawaii and USAPI
item USDA-ARS Science Communication & Outreach Specialist for Agriculture and Climate in the U.S. Southern Plains
item Using Landscape Features, Plot Measurements, and Remote Sensing Data to Improve Predictions of Fuels Treatment Longevity in the Colorado Front Range
item Water Use, Growth, and Yield of Cotton and Guayule under Gravity Drip Irrigation